Skimming Twitter after the twin massacres, it's interesting how bankrupt the gun humpers arguments are. The most humorous of these is the "30-50 feral hogs" meme going around Twitter (basically, how can I protect my children from 30-50 feral hogs). The rest are the same tired, easily disprovable scapegoats: video games, mental illness, divorce, godlessness and so on. Of course, the United States is hardly alone in having video games and mental illness. Nuclear families and church attendance are more rarer in Europe than here. If these were the causes, we would see mass shooting around the world as common as they are here. Instead, America leads the world in mass shootings because we not only have more guns, but more lethal guns.
There are the usual stirrings that "this time things will change." No. Not unless Democrats win the White House, the House and 60 seats in the Senate. No, it will not.
But the gun humpers are losing the argument. It's just that winning the argument doesn't matter in our democracy.
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