No, There Has Not Been a Mass Shooting Every Day This Year

On the assumption that a piss ant dictator like Saddam Hussein might be working on weapons of mass destruction we destroyed countries and left that region destabilized, for generations to come, a decision made from fear Americans might die, killing innocent people that will never be counted. But the actual dangers that kill thousands of Americans are a different matter. Our hands are tied by greed and something akin to religious fervor. Disgust is a mild reaction to the state of affairs.

Better dust off your most disparaging descriptions now

you're going to need them to counterbalance the video of all the kids impressively coming together

to try to convince the country to do what should have been done decades ago.

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I’m so proud of my @NRA rating, I’ll wear it on my chest. I invite my colleagues to join me in wearing our F ratings every day until the GOP finally stands up to the gun lobby and helps us pass common sense gun safety legislation. Find me to get a pin. #MarchForOurLives

Washington (CNN)A Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state has apologized after suggesting he'd like to use US Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.

Carl Nett, whose campaign website says he's a former US Secret Service agent and CIA contractor, replied that Yarmuth should move the pin "over just a bit."

"I was trained center mass," he added, referring to the law enforcement tactic to hit a suspect's vital organs. Nett has since deleted the tweet.
After receiving backlash from Democrats and Republicans in his state, Nett later apologized on Twitter.

"To the extent that anyone, including and most especially Congressman Yarmuth or members of his family, felt sincerely threatened or even offended by today's social media post, I offer my sincere apology to them," he wrote.

The Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Ben Self slammed Nett's comments as "not only alarming but terribly offensive given the numerous shootings including on in Great Mills, Maryland today."

The Louisville GOP condemned Nett's comments and called it "especially disturbing in light of recent attacks on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and our own Senator Rand Paul."

The Scott County GOP wrote on Twitter that it "will not tolerate, in any form, a suggestion or even a hint of violence against anyone" and rescinded its invitation for Nett to speak at an event Tuesday, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.

They are kids.
Cut them some slack.

Rep. John Yarmuth
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I’m so proud of my @NRA rating, I’ll wear it on my chest. I invite my colleagues to join me in wearing our F ratings every day until the GOP finally stands up to the gun lobby and helps us pass common sense gun safety legislation. Find me to get a pin. #MarchForOurLives

My response to them [demonstrating high schoolers] is mostly to just ignore their temper tantrums.

I don't know that we are the only advanced country in the world where AR-15s are available.

I do know that the availability of this gun is not the reason for these murders.

The AR-15 is not the only modified assault style weapon used in mass murder, and is not the only that should be banned.

But take a look at the damage the AR-15 has done.

Oct. 7, 2007: Tyler Peterson, 20, used an AR-15 to kill six and injure one at an apartment in Crandon, Wis., before killing himself.

June 20, 2012: James Eagan Holmes, 24, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber Smith and Wesson rifle with a 100-round magazine, a 12-gauge Remington shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistols to kill 12 and injure 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, used an AR-15-style rifle, a .223-caliber Bushmaster, to kill 27 people — his mother, 20 students and six teachers — in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.

June 7, 2013: John Zawahri, 23, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber rifle and a .44-caliber Remington revolver to kill five and injure three at a home in Santa Monica, Calif., before he was killed.

March 19, 2015: Justin Fowler, 24, used an AR-15 to kill one and injure two on a street in Little Water, N.M., before he was killed.

May 31, 2015: Jeffrey Scott Pitts, 36, used an AR-15 and .45-caliber handgun to kill two and injure two at a store in Conyers, Ga., before he was killed.

Oct. 31, 2015: Noah Jacob Harpham, 33, used an AR-15, a .357-caliber revolver and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill three on a street in Colorado Springs, Colo., before he was killed.

Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Rizwyan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, 28 and 27, used two AR-15-style, .223-caliber Remington rifles and two 9 mm handguns to kill 14 and injure 21 at his workplace in San Bernardino, Calif., before they were killed.

June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, 29, used an AR-15 style rifle (a Sig Sauer MCX), and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people and injure 50 at an Orlando nightclub before he was killed.

Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, used a stockpile of guns including an AR-15 to kill 58 people and injure hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas before he killed himself.

Nov. 5, 2017: Devin Kelley, 26, used an AR-15 style Ruger rifle to kill at least 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before he was killed.

And of course, Parkland, Florida.

Isn't that a long enough bloody trail?

Not true. The AR-15 can get off 2 or 3 shots a second, which is far faster than a conventional rifle, and therefore is able to pile up the bodies more swiftly and efficiently than just a conventional rifle. Therefore, they are the cause of death in the mass killings outlined above.

You keep on talking about aiming, but the military assault rifles the AR-15 is derived from were not built for target shooting.

They were built for pointing toward one's foe and unleashing a torrent of lead. The commercial brand is toned down in speed, but it shoots many more shots per second than a normal rifle.

There is no legit hunting reason you need to get 30 shots off in 30 seconds.

These rifles need to go-now.

The safety of our schoolchildren demands it.

Schoolchildren are not in any more danger from AR-15s than they are from any other rifle that accepts detachable magazines.

So why the presence of the AR-15 at all these mass shootings?