President Obama yesterday, in an interview with the BBC:
"If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. For us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing."News from Lafayette, LA a few hours later:
[Reuters] An Alabama drifter opened fire inside a crowded movie theater, killing two women in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, police said, in the latest act of random gun violence to shock the United States.We've become so used to mass shootings that the deaths of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga by a domestic terrorist, and yesterday's shooting in a Louisiana theater have become an almost routine, expected part of life here. That's not the way it should be.
UPDATE: The shooter, John Russell Houser, was a Confederate flag-flying teahadist wingnut, whose internet rants against President Obama, the "gubmint" and America's "moral decline" are being revealed. He also expressed his admiration for Hitler. Surprised?
