Rex Huppke writes,

“'Thoughts and prayers! Don’t politicize this!' the people will crow.

Nuts to that. The thoughts-and-prayers, it’s-too-soon-to-talk-about-it ship sailed several hundred mass shootings ago. I’m mad now."

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/03/27/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-blame-guns/11550808002/

Nashville school shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't you tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Three children and three adults are dead, gunned down in a Nashville school by someone who had no business possessing two rifles and a handgun.

USA TODAY

"And I’m not waiting for permission to tweet or write or holler about how reckless, how ridiculous, how bloody twisted it is that we inhabit a country where people treat the tool used to murder other people in schools, in churches, in malls, at concerts, in movie theaters, on street corners and in their homes as a sacred possession that must not be regulated, that should be protected as an icon of America, like a bald eagle that spits lead."

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