What were we cats just saying about Halloween not being over?
Yet another mass shooting has taken place in America — and we'd be tempted to treat it with the ho-hum that Wayne LaPierre wants, except this one involved three gunmen who stormed a services center for the disabled in a way that, at least to us, eerily echoed the attack last month on the Bataclan theater in Paris. Without the suicide belts, unfortunately.
At this point, we cats don't really care if the shooters were domestic or foreign terrorists — although we suspect domestic, since they appeared to focus on space at the center that was rented by the San Bernardino County Health Department. Still, the people wielding the guns are less important than the fact that their guns can so easily be gotten. And that, folks, is thanks to the NRA, their Republican slaves, and the Democrats who allow themselves to be intimidated. (We're looking at you, Heidi Heitkamp.)
Maybe if heavily armed Americans kill enough of their fellow citizens in dramatic events like this — or in events like the Planned Parenthood attack, Sandy Hook, Aurora or a ton of others — we will all suddenly realize that an ISIL terrorist could enter the US on a tourist or student visa, arm himself to the teeth, and take out even more of us.
Take it from us cats: If we want to catch those ISIL guys we fear so much, it would be easier to institute expanded background checks on gun purchases than it would be to build Donald Trump's "beautiful wall." Because we know how to control these guns — we've done it before. All it takes is a little political will. Anybody got some?
Perhaps not. Perhaps it will take drastic measures, like releasing police photos of today's mayhem. Or of Sandy Hook. We cats have long thought that pictures of dead six-year-olds in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school would have moved the needle that extra necessary inch for Congress to enact sensible background checks on gun buys. Three years later, if Sandy Hook parents are willing to have their children's bleeding bodies uploaded to the Internet in order to save a few more American lives, our admiration would know no bounds.
Newtown, the ball's in your court. Until then, we cats HISS.
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