So what ties them together? GUNS

 

Looking back at the attempt to shoot President Trump by a shooter with no apparent political motivation, and the Las Vegas shooting (which killed 60 and wounded numerous), also with no clear motive, the question is, what links them; what do they have in common?

Quick answer:  GUNS.

The attempted assassin of Trump owned a gun (or borrowed it from his father), and was in a gun club and practiced shooting. The Las Vegas mass shooter had an arsenal in his hotel room.

In this country, guns that can kill and wound a lot of people fast are readily available and the culture is fascinated with them. Even I'm fascinated by movies with guns (one of my favorite movie endings is in The Girl in the Spider's Web, which features several deaths by gunshot).

So if you have a gun, or guns, preferably the mass death kind, and you're disaffected, or depressed, or in debt, apparently you become tempted to see what they can do, and what you can do with them.

And if you look at even more mass shootings that didn't have a clear motive, many carried out by people with some form of mental illness or disturbance, the same connection is apparent. For some people, when anger or boredom or fear or dissatisfaction kick in, having a gun allows these emotions to have a dangerous form of expression.

That's why common-sense gun control measures are vital. Look at what the disgusting Supreme Court did. They reinstated bump stocks that allowed the Las Vegas shooter to turn his hotel room into a machine gun nest. So the only vote that makes any sense this November is Harris and Walz, for lots of reasons, but one of them is common-sense gun control.

Lack of motive in Trump attack frustrates public, but fits a pattern

"Barring a breakthrough in the investigation, Crooks appears poised to join a string of high-profile attackers with no discernible ideological driver, or with influences from a mixed bag of beliefs. That outcome is frustrating for a nation struggling to make sense of the event, analysts say, but it fits into a pattern of bloody episodes that defy categorization along a traditional left-right spectrum."

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