Parkland, FL

Yep, another week, another mass shooting in America. This one was at a high school in Parkland, Florida and was committed with, you guessed it, an AR-15, the weapon of choice of mass murderers. No wonder. This weapon fires bullets at over 2,800MPH, about three times faster than a typical handgun, and the result is usually instant death. Many people survive from being shot with a handgun. Not so with an AR-15.

David Hogg, NOT a "crisis actor"

This time, however, the surviving kids have gotten really pissed that, after so many shootings like this, our Congress has done not one fucking thing about lessening this violence. It would appear that a large number of our elected reps are in the pockets of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Trump even signed a law early in 2017 making it EASIER for the mentally ill to buy weapons!

Add this to the list of reasons to be ashamed to be an American right now. We are the only western nation where mass shootings like this happen over and over and over. And over and over. I was frankly numb to it, thinking that nothing was going to change, as usual, until these kids started stepping up and demanding change to our gun laws. They are a real inspiration.

Florida teens stage a "die-in"
in front of the White House.

That's the thing about life: you never know what the fuck is coming next. Just ask that Fortune Teller working out of that beat-up shack down the street.

For the first time in a long time, it feels like something might change about our insane gun laws. 

Stephen Colbert has been talking about it.