Previous Post Again, something so tragic raises the issue of gun laws. This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Basically 17 people are dead, because of a cowardly, no hoper Nikolas Cruz. I understand that some people have a romanticised version that they are John Wayne and could outshoot a rogue gunman. The answer is limit gun laws surely? Why do you need automatic, military grade weapons? I just don't get it, I just now a lot of parents and siblings will go on without their children.

We do not know much about the shooter at this point other than that he seems to have been a gun sort of enthusiast that sounded like he had a past of mental health and behavioral problems.

I stated in other places some of the things I would prefer get done, but none will in the end. Just the same old same old.

I was thinking, and not saying this kid is of a specific ideology at present, that it is a bit ironic that more people in the US than one would be comfortable with did not have huge problems with the Bundy's forming an armed militia to stand up to the US government for enforcing court orders and the law. But these same people will raise a fuss about all manner of other crimes.

We have a very vocal minority that is pretty scary really. And somehow they dominate the narrative each and every time. Even basic things that would not restrict many people's rights to own guns are dead on arrival.

It is sad and pathetic.