Gun Nuts, Overrun by Facts

The pesky Second Amendment, NRA set keep going back to the same, tired arguments, it seems, even now, on the heels of yet another slaughter of innocents here in the US. The "thoughts and prayers" crowd. The "It's too soon to talk about it" and "Don't politicize this event", ad infinitum.

What gets me about this is their complete, total denial of facts, of the facts on these matters.

Here's the first one:

In Wake of Florida Massacre, 

Gun Control Advocates Look to Connecticut

And of the entire article, I'll break it down to just this one simple fact, this paragraph, from the beginning of it:

Analyses by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence show that, with few exceptions, states with the strictest gun-control measures, including California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, have the lowest rates of gun deaths, while those with the most lax laws like Alabama, Alaska and Louisiana, have the highest.

That one alone will make them choke but there they are. Facts. All those pesky facts and statistics and hard data.

Here's another.

After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings

And that's just the school shootings. There have been far, far more of other shootings and killings. This is only our unprotected children in our schools.

How can we do nothing?

The fact is, we can't. And with this shooting, this killing, this massacre of still more children, the following makes me think we may have, finally, finally turned a corner. 

Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum 

on Assault Weapons 

Maybe we really will do something this time.

Here's hoping. Let's do this, America. It's long, long overdue.

Link:

This Interactive Map Shows all the Mass Shooting in America 

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