If we continue to do nothing, all our tears are a fraud.FINAL BATTLE SCENE -Tears of the Sun (2004)Д¬ould some of you military guys explain to me exactly what some of these tactics are in this battle scene from Tears of the Sun. The Las Vegas tally gets us almost there.ДЄre we properly horrified yet? Will we do something finally? Will we honor the dead in Las Vegas by, at long last, demanding gun sanity? Now we wait for the next mass murder.ДЄfter 50 years, we are closing in on 1,000 deaths from mass shootings. Everybody at the time thought that was an act of craziness, an anomaly, something you just donвЂ™t see. In the very first of these shootings, an ex-Marine sniper, Charles Whitman, killed his wife and mother and then climbed up high in a tower at the University of Texas and killed 14 more people.

1, 1966 - about seven people per shooting. In June, the Washington Post did the arithmetic and reported that 889 men, women and children have been killed in mass shootings in the United States since Aug.

The guns that killed in Aurora and at Virginia Tech and Newtown and Umpqua College and San Bernardino and. Most of America also wants to ban access to semi-automatic and automatic weapons.Seriously: people buy guns in many parts of America, legally, at garage sales. And that means better licensing of gun stores and a ban on the easy sale of weapons at gun shows and garage sales. Not legally obtained guns from decent people, but illegally obtained guns from bad people. Most of America, to judge by the polls, wants to take illegally obtained guns away from bad people - the drug-dealers and the gang-bangers.We donвЂ™t want to stop folks from hunting deer in the woods of Wisconsin.Д«ut we have called for saner gun laws time and again, only for the gun nuts to twist the message: The crazy liberal media wants to take your guns! Yes, we donвЂ™t want to see grandpa stand defenseless against home invaders. The National Rifle Association hates those polls. For what theyвЂ™re worth.ДЄnd politicians in the pocket of the gun lobby, tons of them, will stand on the floor of the House and the Senate and say how tragic this shooting was and how something must be done - but donвЂ™t punish the law-abiding gun owner because guns are American freedom, guns are apple pie, guns are the flag, guns are the national anthem.ДЄnd they wonвЂ™t tell you that every honest opinion poll for a generation in this country shows Americans are sick to death of the carnage. And there will be prayers and funeral services. Nice folks out for a night of music, our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors. We are beginning to hear their names, see photos of their faces, and they could be any of us - they are any of us. We canвЂ™t begin to express our sorrow for all the people who were killed in Las Vegas, even as we slept so soundly in our beds in the Midwest. Not for target practice.ДЄutomatic and semi-automatic guns are designed to kill people by the bunches - and this one on this night did its job superbly. HeвЂ™s dead himself - finally and too late.Д«ut we know that sound, that ripping of bullets from a single indefensible weapon designed for nothing else. By the time you read this, more likely will have died.ДЄnd we canвЂ™t say all that much about the motive of the killer, Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada. How do you run when you donвЂ™t know where to run?ДЄt last check, 59 people were dead from the bullets that flew during a country music show in Las Vegas. He fled for the safety of the back of the stage, and the crowd screamed and people were hit and bled and died, and nobody could be sure where the gunfire was coming from. We know the sound of bullets flying so fast that you might think of a rusted and ragged zipper.Дid you see the video? Did you see country music singer Jason Aldean, his guitar slung over shoulders, standing front and center when the gunfire began? He knew that sound, that staccato rip of mass-produced death.

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