The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks. [View all]
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/
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