Maine’s Mass Shooting Should Change America’s Gun Culture
It’s time for votes and actions, not just thoughts and prayers.
No community is immune.
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Another mass shooting. Another group of innocents slaughtered. Another public gathering place terrorized. Another community devastated. And another occasion for the gun lobby to say: Oh, well, move along, nothing to see here.
Not this time. We can’t let it happen again. We can’t let the gun lobby get away with it. Not when your community — your bowling alley, your bar, your house of worship, your movie theater, your supermarket, your shopping mall, your workplace and, yes, your child’s school — could be next. Unless we take action to adopt smart and common-sense gun laws, the question isn’t whether another massacre will occur — only how soon. And sadly, we know the answer: very soon.