Mass Shooting Thoughts and Rant Another shooting in Texas as you all know.  It seems to me that gun violence and the sensationalism of each event by the MSM seems to be ramping up exponentially.  That is, unless the perpetrator doesn't fit the desired narrative.  I. E. the Alabama shooter.  Sure seems like it happens more closer to election season AND as bad news for the left comes out. I feel that it is a societal problem.  Identity politics, finger pointing by brainless morons, SSRI meds (many other meds have aggressive behavior as a side effect), mental health...  All to push for the dissolution of the 2A.  None of these cleft assholed, brain-dead politicians never let a tragedy go to waste.  However,  they NEVER address the root cause.   They wish to blame an inanimate object.  No firearms have ever left my gun safe, gone out and discharged themselves.  The same way that my vehicle has never driven itself to a bar and gotten a DUI on the way home . Further baffling is the online comments by American sheeple in these news stories and social media... "(Military Style)Assault Weapon/Rifle" This overplayed, leftie MSM term needs to vanish from people's vocabulary.  I, as many, are beyond sick of hearing it.  These fuckwits can't even define it if you ask them to.  Also, my decades in the military I NEVER heard any military person ever use the term.  We generally called the weapon by it's proper nomenclature or a long standing nickname...  M-16, M-4, M-60, Ma Deuce, M-249, etc. Just because a civilian sporting rifle (which is amazingly adaptable for target, competition, hunting) looks like a military counterpart does NOT make it "military style" or more lethal.  This is like some dick buying a Toyota Camry, putting a spoiler on the trunk lid, black wheels and sponsor stickers all over it with a big ass number on the side and claiming it's a fucking race car. Lastly, the AR-15 platform is markedly different than the M-16/M-4 weapons carried in combat.  Your typical off the shelf AR would NOT survive.  My list isn't all encompassing, but generally speaking, the primary differences are; bolt carrier, buffer, fire control group (aka trigger assembly), fire selector lever (safety lever) to name the biggies.  Some civilian models don't have the improved M 4 style feed ramps or mil-spec barrels. My apologies for the long winded rant.  Thank you for taking the time to read.  I just have a sore spot for idiots spreading ignorant shit.