Great move, Onion

With the tragedy in Texas in which a crazed white man killed nearly two dozen people, it’s obvious that we are going to get the same people saying the same thing. If he’s been Muslim, the talk would be about keeping Muslims out of the country. Since he’s white, it’s going to be about psychiatric problems. As people send prayers to people who were praying, obviously the gun fanatics will keep things exactly the same and nothing will change.

What I found perfect was the article in the Onion, which began:

In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed 27 individuals and seriously injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Sunday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.

That may sound vaguely familiar to regular Onion readers. There’s a good reason for it.

Aside from changing the names and numbers of where the shooting took place, and the name and state of residence of a person who mourns the fact that nothing could be done to stop it, they ran the identical article after the Las Vegas shooting and shootings in California. Because all the same people are going to say all the same things, without change, without question, and without any sense of irony.

You can read the full article(s) here.

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