From AP News: Texas school shooting kills 18 children, 3 adults.

Today.

The article goes further:

“In 2018, a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gunman at a Texas church killed more than two dozen people during a Sunday service in the small town of Sutherland Springs. In 2019, another gunman at a Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people in a racist attack.”

I’m old enough to remember the Congressional hearings on rap music. I’m old enough to remember Chris Rock saying, “white man makes guns, it’s alright, black man SAYS ‘guns’, congressional hearing.” I was alive when TIpper Gore launched a crusade against rock musicians (famously testifying was the late Frank Zappa). I was alive when George Carlin again discussed the 7 forbidden words.

Once again we’re here to talk about how tragic it is that so many this evening are not alive any longer.

Rap music. Rock music and 7 bad words. Predominantly Black people, disenfranchised and horny young adults and potty mouths.

That warranted congressional hearings.

Supreme Court cases.

The AP article went further:

“A year after Sandy Hook, Sens. Joe Manchin a West Virginia Democrat, and Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, negotiated a bipartisan proposal to expand the nation’s background check system. But as the measure was close to being brought to the Senate floor for a vote, it became clear it would not get enough votes to clear a 60-vote filibuster hurdle.”

Just a background check.

They can’t agree on a fucking universal background check.

You would think gun lovers would LOVE this-a universal background check could streamline lawful firearm commerce across state lines.

You would think the Senators that need to go home and look at their constituents who are begging them to DO something would, you know, do something.

You would think that the sight of parents mourning their babies or the sight of those parents being GRATEFUL that their child was at the hospital with a gunshot wound, and not among the dead, would be enough.

But this is America, and More is never enough.

We’ve already gotten tired of the War in Ukraine. We’ve already gotten tired of the pandemic which is again spiking across the country. We’ve already gotten tired of trying to figure out what to do with the recession. We’ve already gotten tired of hearing about gas prices. We’ve already gotten tired of hearing about housing instability. We’ve already gotten tired of hearing about famine. Hearing about wildfires. Hearing about domestic water crises. Hearing about food insecurity. Hearing about ectopic pregnancies and maternal death in the void that will be left by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

We just adjust and keep it moving.

Go along to get along.

Until there’s no where to go.

And the next shots are fired.

Catching us.