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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

This Is Getting Real Old Real Fast

Another day, another school shooting:

NBC News reports:
A student pulled a gun out and shot two other students at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning before the shooter was wounded, the St. Mary’s County sheriff said.
The gunman entered Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland, at the beginning of the school day and shot a female student in a hallway, Sheriff Tim Cameron said live on News4. A male student also was hit by a bullet.
Information was not available immediately on the relationship between the students, Cameron said. The shooter exchanged fire with a school resource officer, trained, armed deputy sheriff, Cameron said. The shooter was wounded; the officer was not. All three students are in critical condition.

By all means, let's make guns easily available to everyone, including teenagers. Kids going through all the stress of puberty, learning to forge relationships, learning to be adults, and being in school should have ready access to guns. Sure they should.

As of the latest update, the shooter has died.

Add in a good helping of disgusting people. From NRA spokesbot, Dana Loesch:

It [the Parkland massacre] cost peoples lives and it also contributed to a state of poison in our national discourse where you have politicians and celebrities and everyone else impugning the characters of millions of law abiding members just because they choose to voluntarily enter into a fellowship and call themselves the NRA. That’s the problem here, it created even more victims of a different sort.

She's starting to sound like a conservative "Christian" -- whatever you're doing to other people, accuse them of doing it to you.

Last I heard, a strong majority of NRA members support rational gun control laws. But then, the "members" the NRA actually listens to -- the manufacturers -- don't. There you have it.

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