As I’m sitting here watching the coverage on the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on FOX 11 Los Angeles (apparently, a dozen people are dead, though that may change), I can’t help but feel one thing: burnout.
I’m burned out that this keeps happening every day (no, like, literally EVERY DAY). I’m burned out that we can’t seem to solve a problem as serious as massive, brutal death that occurs in all corners of the country at all times and ways. And I’m also a little apathetic about your shitty tweets on this situation.
You can forget all of this:
Every mass shooting since Sandy Hook, mapped. https://t.co/IqqLwO7LC2 pic.twitter.com/AQMoVLpWh9
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2015
And you can forget all of this:
Where 2015's mass shootings have occurred, in 1 map. https://t.co/UGVBNVto39 pic.twitter.com/cWavhMNE3j
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) December 2, 2015
And forget this:
There's been no calendar week without a mass shooting during President Obama's 2nd term. https://t.co/elIyYdjAjm pic.twitter.com/cfCo6Sg7Fx
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) December 2, 2015
Because of one reason: Sandy Hook. Let’s quit fuckin’ around about how now will be the time to enact some kind of meaningful, common sense gun control. Now was true years and years and years ago. And now didn’t happen then, so why the fuck would it happen now?
December 2012 happened. When two dozen elementary school students were slaughtered in their classrooms, that is what should’ve pushed us to an actual fix. But if we as a society weren’t serious about enacting any common sense form of gun control after two dozen elementary school students were murdered, then we lost the debate right there, in that moment.
I’d love to be proven wrong about this, but no amount of mass shootings from here on out is going to change it.
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
— Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges) June 19, 2015
It’s over, folks.
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