Las Vegas
Yesterday, a man opened fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel on a group of concertgoers in Las Vegas. Nearly 60 people were killed, making it the worst mass shooting in recent US history after last year's massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
It's difficult to know what to say about this any more. It defies all sense of logic and reason that a man can wander into a hotel armed to the teeth and commit an atrocity like this. One has no reason to assume that this will change anything. As a good many people have observed, if the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook wasn't enough to prompt a change in legislation, it's clear that America has made its choice. The sporadic mass murder of innocent people will continue to be tolerated because of their ludicrous attachment to the Second Amendment right to bear arms, which has been wilfully misinterpreted. One wonders if a steadfast adherence to a 230 year old document in the present day is a logical approach to begin with, but that's another matter.
A nation with blood on its hands, this is the United States of America's greatest shame. And given the current occupant of the White House, that's quite a feat.
It's difficult to know what to say about this any more. It defies all sense of logic and reason that a man can wander into a hotel armed to the teeth and commit an atrocity like this. One has no reason to assume that this will change anything. As a good many people have observed, if the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook wasn't enough to prompt a change in legislation, it's clear that America has made its choice. The sporadic mass murder of innocent people will continue to be tolerated because of their ludicrous attachment to the Second Amendment right to bear arms, which has been wilfully misinterpreted. One wonders if a steadfast adherence to a 230 year old document in the present day is a logical approach to begin with, but that's another matter.
A nation with blood on its hands, this is the United States of America's greatest shame. And given the current occupant of the White House, that's quite a feat.
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