"It seems quaint now. When a former Marine ascended the 30-story tower at the University of Texas in..."

“It seems quaint now. When a former Marine ascended the 30-story tower at the University of Texas in 1966 and used his sniper skills to shoot 14 people to death, it was a shocking act. There were no SWAT teams then, no militarized police. Such events were almost unheard of. Two Austin police officers and a civilian, armed with revolvers and a rifle, made it out on the roof of the tower and killed the sniper. Today mass shootings, “rampage killers,” are so common they can be mapped. So many have occurred in recent years, they are on spreadsheets. A calendar can be marked up: 274 days, 294 mass shootings. That’s a sick society.”

-

Killers among us (via azspot)

It’s pretty fascinating, even. If guns were actually the problem, there would have always been these mass shootings, an equal number of them a year. The anti-gun argument, when translated from emotionalism and hysteria into English is actually “We have become too sick as a society to have guns anymore. Well, except for cops, who are perfectly healthy and never racist, and…um, wait a minute. Guns. It’s the guns!”

America has always been great at treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease.

“Oh, you have a brain tumor? Here’s some aspirin.”