No one is safe in the U.S., the home of guns
By Mike Lupica
This is what we have become in America, every few days now instead of every few weeks or every few months: We have become the land of the free and the home of the guns. We just space out the kind of slaughter they had at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris less than three weeks ago.
In our country, it is a Planned Parenthood clinic one day, a center for people with developmental disabilities the next. We are better at this kind of shooting than we are at baseball.
We have become a land sick with guns, and with the notion that every time there is another mass shooting like we had in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday, that this is strictly a mental health issue, but never a gun issue. It continues to be that notion that is crazy in America, with a Congress that has done nothing to slow down guns since Sandy Hook Elementary School, as we move up on another anniversary of the slaughter there.
This time it was suspects with long guns walking into the Inland Regional Center during a holiday party, and before the shooting stopped and the shooters drove away in an SUV, we had 14 more victims dead from gun violence and at least 17 more wounded before two alleged shooters — a man and a woman — were killed during a gun battle with police. And on the campaign trail they want to talk about the threat of Syrian immigrants as only Hillary Clinton, out of all of them, has the guts to offer any common sense on guns.
From the New York Times:
