Another day, another mass shooting at a school in the United States. Six dead, including three nine-year old children. It marks the 13th school shooting in the United States so far in 2023.

Yesterday it was in Nashville. Where will it be today? Tomorrow? Next week? It’s anybody’s guess. But you know it will happen. You know that there will be more children who will die needlessly in this country.

At least 57 people have died in 38 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this month alone, with another 133 injured. And in the first three months of 2023, there have been 130 mass shootings. Incredibly, there have been more mass shootings in the United States than there have been days this year.

Politicians are, as usual, sending out their thoughts and prayers to the people of Nashville. I think it was Albert Einstein who was alleged to have said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. This reality of doing little more than sending out thoughts and prayers is absolutely insane.

I am mad as hell at the spineless GOP legislators who refuse to do anything about these mass shootings. Instead of proactively addressing the problem of the proliferation of guns in our nation, many red states politicians are, instead, loosening up the regulations and allowing open carry of loaded guns in more places with no permits required. WTF?

If Americans really want to make America great again, we need to start taking names and kicking asses. We need to vote NRA puppets out of office and replace them with legislators who support enacting stricter gun control laws, such as universal background checks and bans on assault weapons, in order to make it more difficult, not less difficult, for people to obtain guns and use them to commit violence.

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Illustration by Golden Cosmos.