The New York Post is Right! (For Once)

The recent school shooting in Florida is yet another horrible mass killing in this land where it's become so common that we've become numb to it. 

Remember Las Vegas? 

That was less than five months ago and now it's practically forgotten -- never mind that fifty-nine people were killed! Fifty-nine people who never went back to their families and friends, ripped from the world, gone forever. And now this tragedy in Florida where it involves kids -- children, young innocents! Remember Sandy Hook? In the aftermath of that unthinkable tragedy the Republican Congress voted down a simple gun background check law. 

The message was and is clear: we love guns more than kids. Specifically, Republicans like our President and Congress love guns more than kids -- Family Values indeed.  

The year 2018 is less than two months old and Donald Trump's America is more of a shooting gallery than ever.

But maybe ... just maybe ... possibly ... one holds out a glimmer of hope that it's possible ... that it might change. Maybe we will have sensible gun law.

To whit: this morning's New York Post -- one of the most virulent right-wing newspapers in the country -- is urging Trump to embrace gun control in a "Nixon goes to China", "you have lots of gun cred so only you can pass this" attitude. It's a shock -- a pleasant one, a broken-watch-is-right-twice-a-day one -- that even one of the most conservative media outlets is shouting "ENOUGH!" Even that old reptile Murdoch is sick of this! If enough such media and political figures  start to support better gun laws perhaps, when my own kids are older, they and their peers will be just a little bit safer.