Florida's governor, Rick Scott, when asked what people should do about this on CNN a few minutes ago said, "Just pray for them and their families."
On the surface it's a nice sentiment. But it's undergirded by the fact that he and other Republicans plan to do nothing about it. It also highlights the uselessness of the millions of prayers for this to never happen again when it's happened before so many times. Empty, deadly words and wishes that only further the ability of people to do things like this.
I need to stay off Facebook today to avoid all the shit about it being a people problem and not a gun problem. As if America, by some cosmic happenstance contains not just more crazy people in it than any other western nation, but also easy access to handguns and military grade weaponry and there's nothing that can or should be done about either. Of course that's fucking stupid, but people believe it.
But it won't change. If anything was going to change it would have happened after Sandy Hook. But when 20 dead kindergartners only hardened the resolve of the NRA and its slimy fucking ilk, thereby resulting in absolutely zero measures to do anything about the access to high power weaponry or services for the mentally ill, it was obvious that nothing of any magnitude was going to happen.
The only difference here is that it's happened in an election cycle. It is depressing to think that this could help Trump. But that's getting too far ahead of things. The police know more but can't release the information until they get it sorted out.
