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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks.
The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks.Legislation has stalled and interest has faltered. The NRA has won this round.
ADDY BAIRD OCT 24, 2017, 12:32 PM
At this point, it feels like tale as old as time: Man takes up gun and slaughters dozens of elementary school children in Newtown or clubgoers in Orlando or concert attendees in Las Vegas. Social media is flooded with messages of concern, with thoughts and prayers, with surety at least from some that this time, things will be different.
This time, theylll ban semi-automatic weapons. This time, theyll close the no-fly list loophole. This time, theyll outlaw bump stocks.
But Vegas isnt different.
Its been a little more than three weeks since Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival, shooting out the window of a Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others.
It was the worst mass shooting in modern American history, and it doesnt even matter.
https://thinkprogress.org/forgetting-vegas-shooting-679397afc814/
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The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks. (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Oct 2017
OP
Couldn't even get pass gun-strokers whining about possibly losing access to bump stocks
Hoyt
Oct 2017
#3
This time they didn't even bother going through the phony exercise about how we need better
Vinca
Oct 2017
#5
As the *******'s in the Gungeon would say, "It's the price we pay for the 2nd Amendment"
madinmaryland
Oct 2017
#7
rickford66
(5,534 posts)1. We missed the 3 minute window that was the right time ?
No sweat, There'll be another opportunity.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)2. so fucking on point.
After the shooting.. "not the right time".
later.. "it's old news."
Of course having the daily outrages doesn't help one damn bit. It's like scandal ADD.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Couldn't even get pass gun-strokers whining about possibly losing access to bump stocks
These killings, armed spousal abuse, armed white wing militia groups, etc., will just get worse until someone in power has the guts to stand their ground against this junk, and -- to the extent they actually exist -- "responsible gun owners" say this has gone too far.
spanone
(135,950 posts)4. trump owns every second of every news cycle
and the nra owns congress
Vinca
(50,334 posts)5. This time they didn't even bother going through the phony exercise about how we need better
mental health care, yada, yada, yada. The only question left to answer is when it will happen next.
malaise
(269,328 posts)6. Had the same thought this morning
This cannot happen again
madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)7. As the *******'s in the Gungeon would say, "It's the price we pay for the 2nd Amendment"
FUCK THE NRA AND ALL OF THEIR SYCOPHANTS.