The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks.

[workinclasszero]

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, they’lll ban semi-automatic weapons. This time, they’ll close the no-fly list loophole. This time, they’ll outlaw bump stocks.

But Vegas isn’t different.

It’s 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 doesn’t even matter.

https://thinkprogress.org/forgetting-vegas-shooting-679397afc814/

[rickford66]

1. We missed the 3 minute window that was the right time ?

No sweat, There'll be another opportunity.

[Amimnoch]

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]

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]

4. trump owns every second of every news cycle

and the nra owns congress

[Vinca]

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]

6. Had the same thought this morning

This cannot happen again

[madinmaryland]

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.