Senselessness
The details are just coming out on the TV news about another mass shooting in Portland, Oregon, so we know little about this except that it apparently follows the same crazed path of several other similar shootings in the United States (it seems since the massacre at the University of Texas in 1966). Of course, it's past time for Congress and the Administration to institute limitations on assault weapons that would be similar to the ones during the Clinton Era. This and our other blogs haven't said too many fond things about former President Bill Clinton, but at least he had the courage to put limitations on assault weapons, the type of guns that have practically no civilian purpose. Clinton's exceptional legacy on guns didn't last, because the feckless Hastert Congress of the Zeroes Decade didn't reinstitute Clinton's ban when it expired. Regarding Portland, our condolences to the families of the deceased and our prayers for the quick recovery of the injur