Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"The tightknit community of ______ was shaken to its core today when a gunman went on a rampage that lasted __ minutes and killed ____ adults and ____ children.

Police said that an additional ____ people were wounded in the country’s __th mass shooting of the month and ___th of the year.

Authorities have identified the gunman as _________, a __ -year-old from ______. The motivation for the attack, as best the police can determine so far, was ____________. It echoes mass shootings this year in _________ , ________ and ________.

The gun used in the massacre was a ________, the same type of weapon used in mass killings this year in ________ , _________ and, most notoriously, __________.

Authorities said that ________ was able to obtain the weapon legally.

Several survivors of the shooting, still in visible shock, said they never imagined such senseless and horrific violence visiting their quiet community.

_________ called for tighter gun control to stanch the national bloodletting. Republicans shot back that Democrats were politicizing a tragedy, insisting that all that was needed now was thoughts and _______.

No major legislative remedy to the problem of gun violence, which stretches to nearly every American community, stands a chance of passing a perennially deadlocked Congress. Gun-control supporters said that enough Republican lawmakers (and some Democratic ones) think the status quo isn’t just acceptable but also defensible.

“No, even ___ murdered children isn’t really enough to coax our friends across the aisle to move anything out of committee,” said _________, a senator from ________. “The other side blames mental illness. But we’re not an international outlier in mass mental illness — only an outlier in mass death at the barrel of a gun.”

This MadLib idea isn’t totally original. The Washington Post did a version in 2009 (hundreds of mass shootings ago), others followed. Sadly, it will not be the last.

American soil is now salted with weapons. There are now more than 400 million guns in the country, more than any other nation in the world — by far. At least one-third of all civilian-owned guns in the world are in American hands.

That’s not an accident: The Supreme Court, which in 2008 discovered an individual right to own guns in the Constitution rather than one tied only to a militia, apparently thinks that the founders envisioned a nation with enough guns for every man, woman and child to have one, with tens of millions left over. And not just guns — military-style semiautomatic rifles designed primarily to kill humans.

In a few weeks, the court is likely to strike down some of New York’s gun safety regulations. Unbelievable.

No other nation has such stratospheric levels of gun deaths, which is why 88 percent of voters support universal background checks.

The country is such a free-fire zone that active-shooting drills are now ubiquitous in American classrooms. We teach our kindergartners to bar the door, shut off the lights and hide under their desks. But since the current generation of mass-shooting gunmen may have been through those drills themselves as children, perhaps we should drop this terrifying security theater and teach schoolchildren basic first aid instead. Ninety percent of all firearm deaths of children 14 or younger in high-income countries occur in the United States, according to a study released in March. We excel in the preventable-tragedy business.

We can hope that our children and grandchildren will be able to muster the will necessary to cauterize this national wound. It will be their life’s work: Given proper care and maintenance, hundreds of millions of the guns currently in circulation will still be fully operational for generations to come.

The American people keep on buying new guns; the gun makers keep churning them out. These guns are the American Bequest, but only if our children agree to accept it.

Ten years ago, it was parents in Newtown, Conn., who learned that their children were dead. On Tuesday, it was parents in Uvalde, Texas. If we don’t act, it is only a matter of time until it happens again, in ______________.

Alex Kingsbury

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

The tightknit Jewish communities of Germany were shaken to their core today when Nazi gunmen went on a rampage that lasted two days and killed 100 people. Police said an additional hundreds of businesses, homes and synagogues were destroyed and 100,000 people were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
We can wish that our children and grandchildren would have been able to muster the necessary arms to defend themselves. If we don't act, it is only a matter of time untill Kristallnacht happens again.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Excellent reply. If schools were not gun free zones they wouldn't be such easy targets for lunatics. How many mass shootings have occurred where it is known that most everyone is armed? I'm pretty sure it is ZERO. If you love your children protect them don't make them targets. .

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Give everyone a gun; then everyone would be afraid to shoot anyone.
That is the most twisted logic I can imagine. It is just stupid.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

You complain that teachers aren't teaching... what YOU want them to teach.
Now, you want them to carry guns too?

As usual, solutions from the extremist right are simply brilliant stupidity!

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

These people are gun crazy. No tragedy, no amount of carnage, even the dead bodies of children, will sway them.
It is sickening.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Well, at least then it would become a contest of skill (quick on the draw, good on the aim, fast trigger pull, steady on the recoil).

What actually surprises me is that in all the discussions so far no one has brought up Hollywood or shoot-em-up video games that glorify gun violence. Oh, I know, the good guy always wins in the end... but not before there is a lot of heart thumping blood pumping action and thrills.

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

These people are anti-self defense crazy. No tragedy, no amount of carnage, even the dead bodies of children will sway them. It is sickening.

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

As usual, solutions from the extremist left are simply brilliant stupidity!

BlackRipleyDog

I went to a Museum that showed the result of disarming civilians and where only the invaders had guns.

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mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

Don't wait for a counter argument to your post because the gun grabbers don't have one. It short circuits their brains trying to come up with one. Their position is the pro genocide position.

BlackRipleyDog

What they would have to say is meaningless drivel anyway.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Really? The second amendment with virtually no regulations seemed to work well for the first 200 years of our existence as a country. We had zero random mass shootings before LBJ and Ted Kennedy's War on Poverty. Why don't you research the connection to that?

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Ok, tell us what laws or regulations will stop these mass shootings? Especially in schools.

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

He's not gonna tell you. He just posts these articles and then sorta runs off and comes back every once in awhile to call someone crazy. Never answers any questions.