Seventeen children are dead after yet another school shooting, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The shooter used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and carried multiple magazines with him. It's time again for the thoughts and the prayers, for the ritual Fox News/NRA condemnations of "gun free zones," for the conspiracy theories and harassment of grieving parents by crazy people who read online that they're merely "crisis actors," and for the predictable Republican explanation that guns aren't the problem, mental health is the problem -- followed, after a decent interval, by calls to cut Medicaid and other help for mental health. And of course it's time for the usual surge in sales of semiautomatic rifles, because
How Could Such A Tragedy Happen Again After The Last Time We Did Absolutely Nothing?
How Could Such A Tragedy Happen Again After…
How Could Such A Tragedy Happen Again After The Last Time We Did Absolutely Nothing?
Seventeen children are dead after yet another school shooting, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The shooter used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and carried multiple magazines with him. It's time again for the thoughts and the prayers, for the ritual Fox News/NRA condemnations of "gun free zones," for the conspiracy theories and harassment of grieving parents by crazy people who read online that they're merely "crisis actors," and for the predictable Republican explanation that guns aren't the problem, mental health is the problem -- followed, after a decent interval, by calls to cut Medicaid and other help for mental health. And of course it's time for the usual surge in sales of semiautomatic rifles, because