I don’t get this fascination with guns.

I’ve said it before.  There are violent films and video games I’ve both enjoyed and enjoy.

But these things are fantasy.

In “real life” I find guns, especially some of the military grade ones out there, incredibly scary.  I’ve fired real guns before -target practice no more- but never felt the thrill many others seem to have with such things.

I’m also not a hunter nor do I live in the rough where I may need such a weapon to protect myself from predatory animals.

The politicians, predictably, are once again doing their “prayers and thoughts” statements to those who lost loved ones.  Donald Trump, predictably, brushes off any notion that this is a gun issue, instead stating this is a mental health issue… which would be fine except it conveniently ignores the fact that this shooter, and too many before him, had access to weapons that by all rights should only be in military hands.

History repeats itself and one wonders when the next one will happen.

Such bullshit.