Viva Las Vegas

Another day in the US, another mass shooting.  But will this carnage finally change gun control in the US?  Will it f*ck.  This looks like being the worst mass shooting in the history of the US – I haven’t, and won’t, look at any of the horrific videos of the chaotic scenes (I’ve been watching a lot of The Vietnam War documentary recently, and I don’t need to see any more of this kind of slaughter) – but even that won’t be enough to challenge the NRA’s influence and Americans flawed belief in the right to bear arms.  It appears that, once again, automatic gunfire was used to incur mass injuries and fatalities – there isn’t any reasonable justification for private use of automatic weapons, but if anything this kind of mass shooting will only increase sales.  And if the recent shootings in Orlando and Sandy Hook haven’t made any difference to gun control and gun regulations, then Las Vegas won’t either (especially under this administration).  And that is tragic.  And that is why there will continue to be more mass shootings – each as senseless as the previous one.  If anything, things could and probably will get worse – case in point, a current Republican bill that would deregulate the use of gun silencers.  Disgusting.