It’s Only Words, But Words Are All We Have….

.@PressSec opens the briefing by mentioning today's St. Louis shooting, sets it alongside Uvalde and others as more reason to ban assault weapons:

"We need additional action to stop the scourge of gun violence."

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 24, 2022

Apparently.

We love our children. We just love our guns more.

Instead of taking action on guns, Texas hands out kits that make it easier for parents to identify their slaughtered children and has the gall to do it in the name of safety, the Editorial Board writes.https://t.co/n1oTzqtoI2

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) October 24, 2022

Yup. That’s what we did. Now you can be sure those were your daughter’s shoes.

In my day it was just “duck’n’cover.” ‘Course we didn’t have DNA 🧬 testing then. All we had to fear was the abstract possibility of nuclear annihilation; not the reality of being shot into ground meat.