It's Sunday

As if fundamentalists need any more "proof" they're persecuted in this world, an Oregon psycho helps them out.

The US is reeling from another school shooting, the 45th this year, after a 26-year-old gunman murdered as many as nine people and wounded seven more at a community college in Oregon before he was killed.

The gunman was named as Chris Harper Mercer, a 26-year-old man who lived near Umpqua college in the rural town of Roseburg.

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Michael Bloomberg, noted that the Umpqua college killings were [...] the 142nd school shooting since the attack at Sandy Hook elementary school, in Connecticut, nearly three years ago.

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[Since] November 2012 there have been 993 mass shooting events in the United States, not including Umpqua. Almost 300 of them have occurred in 2o15.

  Guardian

Forty-five school shootings this year. Is it time to ask, "What's wrong with America?"

“‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and ‘if you are a Christian then stand up’ and they would stand up. He’d say ‘because you are a Christian you’re going to see God in about one second’ and then he shot and killed them. And he kept going down the line doing this to people.

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The gunman then entered the Snyder Hall classroom and told people to get on the floor, she told the Roseburg News-Review newspaper. He told people to stand up and state their religion before opening fire.

  The Guardian

And the Christians were such GOOD Christians that they kept admitting it so they could be shot? Now, there's a religion to sink your teeth into. Surviving Christians are going to be left with a heavy survivor's guilt indeed.  Even if that's not what really happened.

And while we're on the subject of mass shootings:

Fourteen people, including two young boys, were shot in Chicago over a 15-hour period from Monday night to Tuesday morning.

Six people were killed and at least eight were wounded, following two consecutive weekends when more than 50 people were shot in the city.

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The shootings these past two weeks follow a four-week period in August, when more than 40 people were shot each weekend. At least 2,300 people have been shot in the city this year, which the Tribune said is 400 more than were shot in the same period last year.

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“Here we go again,” said Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy. “We’ve had the same conversation over and over. What do we have to do?"

  Guardian

That's a very good question.

"We have to hold criminals responsible.”

THAT's your answer?