Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has some notions on when we should be discussing new legislation to deal with the nation's now near-daily mass shootings. Specifically:
Campaign ActionWell that's a shame. If it's premature to talk about action after Las Vegas, though, perhaps we could instead use the opportunity to finally talk about legislative solutions to the Pulse Nightclub murders? It has been over a year since that day: has enough time passed for the Senate to act?
What about the Umpqua Community College mass shooting, in Oregon? It's been two years since that one, is it still premature? What about the race-motivated murders of black American churchgoers in South Carolina? What about Sandy Hook?
The Virginia Tech mass murder killed 32—that was in 2007. Surely, a decade is enough time? No? The Aurora, Colorado, mass murder, fifteen years back? The Killeen, Texas, mass shooting in 1991? Columbine? San Ysidro?
If now is not the time to talk about what we as a nation can do to limit the ability of a lone gunman to rapidly murder 69 Americans and injure hundreds—fine. We can oblige that. So let's instead discuss what we as a nation can do to prevent the hundreds of other mass murders that have happened during 2017 aside from that one. Or during 2016. Or during 2014. We can pick any one of them and respond, as a nation, to that.
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