A while back, The Onion printed a headline in response to another one of America's trademark mass shootings that read "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens." I found it to be a humorous and sad summary of the largest health crisis facing Americans right now.
In response to the latest iteration of this strangely American phenomenon (which happened at a small community college in Oregon), President Obama challenged the media to create graphic charts that showed how many Americans were sacrificed at the altar of Second Amendment fetishists. Here are some of the best ones:
We can do better. It is indescribably pathetic that we have allowed weapons manufacturers to create a lobbying group (the NRA) that has duped a cross-section of rubes and psychos into believing that requiring background checks on weapons purchases is the first step towards tyranny. We should not be held hostage by a bunch of well-armed people who run around in tinfoil hats. They are quite literally creating an environment where we are being killed for sport.
Enough. Seriously, enough. This isn't reasonable. This is effing stupid, and I'm tired of it.
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