Something Is Terribly Wrong with Us

Remember this just a day or two ago?

I don't know about the mall, but it's getting risky to go to a movie.

As the previews ended and the lights dimmed for the screening of the comedy "Trainwreck," a man stood up inside a Louisiana movie theater, pulled out a handgun and began firing indiscriminately.

The shooter, a 58-year-old man, killed two people and wounded nine others at the Lafayette multiplex Thursday night before he turned his gun on himself and took his own life, police said. The shooting comes within days of the guilty verdict in the Aurora, Colorado, theater massacre.

  CNN

All they've reported at this time about the man's identity is that he was a “lone white male.” (So you know it wasn't an act of terrorism.)

Our politicians want us to be afraid of an attack by foreign radicals.  Your chances of being attacked by a member of ISIS, or any other foreign radical organization, are infinitesimally small.  By the nutjob in your neighborhood, or a cop if you're black...getting higher and higher.

Mother Jones doesn't have this one in Lafayette up yet, but they are keeping a tally of US Mass Shootings from 1982.  (In spreadsheet format here.)

Is there any other country in the world where this kind of madness goes on so regularly that they have to keep a tally card?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.