So there's a mass shooting in New Zealand. Naturally, it was carried out by an angry, scared, Islamophobic white male, with a nod and a wink to our own little Tinpot in Chief.
(Gee, the world does get more and more like the good old U.S. every day, don't it?)
And less than a week later, New Zealand bans assault rifles.
Don't those silly Kiwis know that the proper response to a mass shooting is earnest, heartfelt "thoughts and prayers" followed by complete inaction?
Well, not complete inaction. The maggots on Fox News will rant about a possible infringement on our God given Second Amendment rights to any and all handheld weapons. The MAGAts will put on their little red hats, get out their own sacred, beloved hardware and parade around looking all menacing, and pretending to be really, really tough. The cretins on twitter will argue about what is and isn't an automatic weapon. And the Republicans in Congress, the courts, and elsewhere will ignore the wishes of the majority of Americans for some kind of sane gun control.
That's the kind of action we like.
Apparently, that's the only kind of action we are capable of at this point.
What a pathetic country we've become.
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