Did someone already mention, 18th (eighteenth) school shooting this year, that's in 2018, a period of 6 weeks?
All the figures have been posted and as usual everyone is somehow in the juxtaposition of being equally shocked and completely unsurprised.
The thing is, the numbers at this point are just statistics. If they were just one third of what they are now, we would still be just as shocked as we are now at each individual indecent and still just as shocked at the sheer volume of times it happens. Equally though, if they were three times what they are now, we would be just as shocked at each incident and just as shocked at the sheer volume.
As has already been pointed out in this thread, if Sandy Hook couldn't change anything, nothing can.
When you have the families of infants who have been shot to pieces in an attack on a school getting abused in public by the likes of Alex Jones and his supporters who call the tragedy a "false flag" or claim that it didn't even happen because they campaign for regulations to stop other parents having to deal with that situation in the future, it's fecked up enough.
When you have supposedly civilised members of congress, blocking every single law they can so their financial backers can keep turning over profits, that's getting close to the limit of feckupery.
When the same members of congress vote to repeal legislation that is designed to make it more difficult for people with mental illnesses to own guns, you know you have reached peak feckupery.
These Midterms are possibly the most important in America's history. If there's a blue wave and there is finally a system in place to hold the Trump Admin accountable, there will be
some home. If the redistricting of voting boundaries is removed from Republican hands, that's another step in the right direction.