Acceptable losses.

I knew we lost the gun debate when the mangled bodies of terrified first graders and their teachers was an acceptable loss. Calling it “the price you pay for freedom,” made it seem like these kids had life jerked out of their bodies for a good reason.

America felt bad about it, but not bad enough.  It was akin to sacrificing virgins to appease the rain gods.  It’s just something you have to do ever so often.

Yesterday, a gunman killed four people and hurt 14 others and it doesn’t even make it above the fold at Huff Post, CNN, or MSNBC.

Even my hometown newspaper – the fourth largest city in America – buries it at the bottom of the front page where the “oh, incidentally” stuff goes.

It happened yesterday afternoon and although I admit I wasn’t listening closely, I never heard guns mentioned at last night’s Republican debate.  That might be a good thing, though, since those guys would have all pulled their weapons and measured which one had the longest whatever.  Hell, even Jeb had to post a picture of his gun before dropping out just so you’d know how big his is.

And Democrats haven’t done a whole lot better.

We need some damn courage.  People who need to tote guns everywhere they go do not have courage, they have fear.

The Second Amendment does not mean what the NRA thinks it means. If it did, you would have the right to possess your own personal nuclear weapon.

This was the 28th mass shooting of 2016 and it’s not even March yet.  That’s one every other day.

They are acceptable losses.

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