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With lips pursed he says it again...."It's too soon to talk about gun control."

Take a look at the figures below:

April 16, 2007 - Seung Hui Cho, a 23 year old student, went on a killing spree at Virginia Tech killing 32 people
December 14, 2012 - Adam Lanza, 20, gunned down six adults and 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut
October 16, 1991 - George Hennard, 32, shot and killed 23 people in Kileen, Texas
July 18, 1984 - James Huberty, 41, gunned down 21 adults and children in San Ysidro, California
August 1, 1966 - Charles Joseph Whitman, a former Marine, shot and killed 16 people at the University of Texas in Austin
August 20, 1986 - Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 postal workers in Edmond, Oklahoma
December 2015 - Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in San Bernadino, California
November 5, 2009 - US Army Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people near Kileen, Texas
April 20 - 1999 - Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and one teacher in Columbine, Colorado
September 16, 2013  - Aron Alexis killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater
October 1, 2015 - Christopher Harper-Mercer shot an assistant professor and eight students at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Oregon
June 18, 2015 - Dylann Roof, wanting to start a race war, killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Caroliina
October 1, 2017 -Stephen Paddock killed 58 people at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada
November 4, 2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas

This list includes the names of three people, involved in two separate mass killings, as pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. All the rest? Mostly white men.....mostly, if not all, American citizens.

Reasons? Anger issues, mental health problems......probably. And this is a "small" list - only including victims of mass shootings. It doesn't take into account the individual acts of gun violence in America. (According to Gun Violence Archive information 15,084 people died in America as a result of gun violence in 2016.)

But yes.....way too early to talk about gun control. Especially after funding is cut for mental health programs. Those programs aren't needed either. Extreme vetting is very important according to Fearless Leader.....but gun control? The ability to purchase automatic weapons? Too early to make any decisions about that.

So go ahead and plan a trip - but you might want to avoid visiting schools, concerts, churches, movie theaters. Welcome to the United States of Guns.