Reflecting on Columbine, 25 years later, a survivor writes: "When a door plug falls off a plane, we ground hundreds of planes and investigate. When it’s believed a car battery might cause a fire, millions of vehicles are recalled. When a batch of lettuce isn’t processed properly, we remove it from the shelves and the FDA posts a warning. We regulate, investigate and set up systems and protocols for safety in this country for nearly everything — except guns. We’ve set up a national hotline for suicide prevention, but nothing exists to report suspected would-be mass murderers. Why? Why do we refuse to do better?
If we’d taken mass shootings seriously 25 years ago, how many children would be alive today? How many families’ loved ones? How much blood has to be spilled before it’s enough? Will our collective empathy ever kick in?
@KeithDJohnson LA Times editorial recently said there have been 350 intentional school shootings since Columbine. Hundreds have died. Tens of thousands of kids traumatized by direct exposure to gun violence.
It's a blood red stain on society. We must find the will to stop the slaughter.
When a door plug falls off a plane, we investigate just as hard as when a gun fails a drop test.
Likewise, when somebody shoots someone with a gun, we investigate just as hard as when a pilot crashes an airplane.
Car batteries are recalled; Drivers are investigated.
Lettuce is recalled; farmers are investigated for not following clean handling procedures.
Moreover, the idea that we don't regulate firearms at all, just because we don't regulate them as hard as the OP wants, is ridiculous.
"Nothing exists to report suspected would-be mass murderers." Yes, it does. It's called "911".
There are actual paths to safer gun control laws. But statements like these that get so many basic facts wrong aren't helping that cause.
True, but we're going to stop doing all those other things too if Republicans/Nazis take power. They will extend their disregard for human life to everything.
Your relatives will die from poisoned food and no one will do a thing that interferes with profits.
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