Another morning, another "unimaginable" tragedy

207 mass shootings this year. 399 people killed in those shootings, plus another 1644 injured.

Add in the other 33,000 people who die each year from guns and we get a gun death rate of 12 per 100,000 people. That's about half as many people die from breast cancer each year and we spend millions of dollars treating, preventing, researching breast cancer.

Why are guns different?

Why do people want them? There's absolutely no evidence that a gun helps people. A woman is more likely to be threatened or murdered with a gun than successfully use it in self-defense.

I am sick and tired of this gun rhetoric. I am tired of waking up to another death or another shooting.

On average 90 people die from gun violence each and every day. 90 people!!!
That's 90 mothers, fathers, daughters, sons. Odds are that's at least 75 innocent people.

The thing I hate most is the statement that these tragedies are unimaginable. For who? I know what caused this one and the last one and it is easy access to a killing machine. That's what causes these mass shootings, that's what causes 90 plus percent of all of the gun violence in the US.

So, until we do something about gun control, these tragedies will continue to be all too imaginable.