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First off, my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.Reports now of 8 dead, worse than originally reported. Saw 2 reports that the shooter was using a shotgun and the shots were 'spaced out' - so may not be a rapid-fire AR scenario like the last few.
I can't figure out what's going on in this country. Guns have been available for well over 100 years and these events rarely ever occurred. Yet in the last 20 years, they seem to have become more frequent. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that the presence of guns has nothing to do with this - so what is it? Bad parenting? Schools that focus more on social justice than on education? Devaluing life vis a vis abortion, etc.? Tossing out core morality and replacing it with moral relativism? No more defined right and wrong, only that which you choose to define for yourself?
If the shooter used one of those easily concealable "other firearms" like the Mossberg Shockwave or Remington Tac 14 you can bet that Trump and Sessions will send them the way of the dodo bird and bump stocks.
The media should not put the shooters face all over the place. Give his name a mention and then drop any further glorification of the shooter. The Parkland shooter actually has a fan base trying to send him letters and money in prison, it's pretty damn sick.