I suppose it is worth mentioning that a gunman opened fire in a church in a small town in Texas and killed 26 people (4% of that town’s population), ranging in age from 11 months to 77 years old. A good Samaritan with a rifle heard the shots from across the street, and shot the gunman, 26 year old Devin Patrick Kelley, who fled.  After a short police chase, Kelley shot himself and died. Kelley had an AR-15, the gun of choice in mass shootings. The cause was some sort of beef with his wife or in-laws, only one of whom was at that church (the grandmother-in-law).

The post-shooting response is now almost scripted. “Thoughts and prayers” from do-nothing conservatives. A short public debate about gun control which goes nowhere. No legislation gets passed. We forget about this incident. And in a few weeks or months, another mass murder.

Senseless.