If ya ain't got compassion, ya ain't got much.

Sometimes, Americans leave me speechless.*  If he really believed his own rhetoric, and the Orlando night club shooting had not just happened in his own state, then the idea of adding more guns to the mix is something only the NRA could come up with.‡  "Oh gosh. I'm gonna be out in public, carrying my AR-15 with the Second Amendment engraved on it (really!), and the terrorists are gonna be killin' people and I'll shoot 'em all up and everything will be fine and and dandy!" or "I'll be sittin' at home and 'cuz I'm so important, the Federal Government will storm this place and try to assassinate me.  But I'll have my semi-automatic assault rifle on my lap and I'll shoot 'em all up!  And that'll be the end of that!"  Because if the U.S. government wants to take you out, you'll just defend yourself with an assault rifle, and it'll all work out fine.  Yep.

So we know that he doesn't really even believe his own rhetoric, because it was supplied by the NRA and is completely idiotic.  And the Orlando shooting did just happen and it was in his own state.  So, how could he be doing this?  A complete lack of compassion.  Any human being with a shred of compassion would say to themselves, "there are a lot of hurting people around here right now because of this gun and I'm trying to get elected to represent them.  This is likely to cause them more suffering.  I think I won't do this."  But he clearly doesn't have a shred of compassion.  And he proved that for us, by giving away an AR-15, the gun used in the night club shooting.  If he really believed all his lies and just wanted to be safe and had even the slightest amount of compassion, he would have given away an Uzi, or the like.  But no, that wouldn't suffice.  He needed to make it super clear to the rest of the world:  Scared, rich, straight, white people having guns is more important than the safety and health of everyone else.

People like him, who are dominated by fear and by greed, need to be stopped.  It is time for people of conscience everywhere to recognize the impact of our internal workings on the external world and to stand up against people like this; people who refuse to do what's right.


* He did.  Just not for long.

‡ Studies show that gun ownership increases violent deaths.  This, from Harvard, took me    30 seconds to find on the internet.