Kathy Hochul Had One of the Few Sane Responses to Yesterday's Mass Shooting

On Monday afternoon, I was going to write about the mass shooting at a casino/resort in Reno. This was a bad one that could have been much worse. From KCRA:

The suspected gunman, who had multiple magazines, was shot by responding police and was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police credited a fast response and having a fire station across the street with helping to save lives and prevent the man from entering the casino. No motive has been determined so far. Police described the attack as a rampage with no reason to believe that the attacker knew his victims. Grand Sierra Resort said none of its employees were injured.

Multiple magazines. Guy meant business. Of course, in most of what we laughingly call the civilized world, a guy with multiple magazines at his disposal would need to have a good and lengthy explanation for the local authorities as to why he needs to arm up like he lived in Fallujah. Instead, in this country, we have nothing more than another unfortunate exercise in First Amendment freedoms.

So the events in Reno fell off the radar screen on Monday until late afternoon, when a gunman walked into a Manhattan office building and slaughtered four people with an AR-15, including an NYPD officer—named Islam, by the way, for any and all wingnuts seeking to paint this event as the inevitable result of the immigrant-laden hellhole that is New York City.

(This one has a number of chickens coming home to roost. According to reports on Tuesday, the gunman, Shane Devon Tamura, who took his own life, was aiming to shoot up the headquarters of the National Football League, but he took the wrong elevator. He left a note claiming that he was a victim of CTE from his days playing high school football days and blaming the NFL for ignoring the problem in pursuit of increased profits.)

Christamighty, two in one day? How can this possibly be normal, but it is. To her credit, New York Governor Kathy Hochul lambasted the federal government for not cracking down on weapons of war as home furnishings. But the problem remains—too goddamn many guns, and too goddamn many murderous crackpots with access to them.