In took a little over a year for a new mass shooting to be crowned the worst ever in American history.
As always, the only voice that made any sense of the massacre in Las Vegas was The Onion, a satirical news website.
They trotted out their well-worn headline: 'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
If fact, it occurs so frequently that it is astonishing that it attracts so much media coverage.
Guess it's a slow Monday.
This will be hot news for a few days and then it will die down as it always does, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The White House says this is no time to talk about gun control in America. Obviously, to Republicans and the firearm-fetish crowd, there is no time to talk about gun control.
Not that it matters.
No laws on guns will pass unless it is to expand the use of firearms so that everyone has a gun at all times to thwart any other mass shooting. It wouldn't be surprising to see a motor-shooter law passed where, in order to get a driver's license, the applicant must show proof of gun ownership.
Evidently, more than 300 million guns in the hands of Americans are not enough.
The shooter in his Las Vegas hotel room "had at least 20 rifles, two on tripods at the windows, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition," an official told the New York Times.
Leave it to The Onion, again, to put this in perspective:
"NRA Says Mass Shootings Just The Unfortunate Price Of Protecting People's Freedom To Commit Mass Shootings"
In fact, the Supreme Court made such a ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller. Of course, it wasn't worded that way but the end result is the same. The right to kill with guns supersedes the right to not be killed by guns.
For now, as they say, all we can do is pray for the victims.
And, count the days until the next mass shooting becomes the worst in American history.
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