Citizens are told to make their voices heard. Riester touched on some of the common wisdom. “What’s the next step? Can anyone at all share how I can lessen the ability of a person to effortlessly kill dozens of other people? I am sincerely interested to know everything I should be doing.”
#NRA SPEECH THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS UPDATE#
I sign every petition until I am unsure which ones I have or haven't signed,” Brian Riester, a Facebook friend, wrote in a status update this week. “I call my representatives and senators every time this happens. “And I think by accepting the script, we tacitly accept that the script will end the same way every time, with nothing changing.” Instead, he argued, Americans must have the courage to act. “It’s as if there’s a national script we have learned,” said Stephen Colbert, the host of CBS’s Late Show, in a somber monologue Monday night.
“If even the slaughter of 20 small children cannot end America’s infatuation with guns,” The Economist wrote in 2012, referring to the mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut, “nothing will.” “It’s not actually impossible to defeat the NRA.” And in states with Republican-controlled legislatures, The New York Times found, it’s often easier to buy a gun after such an attack. Stricter gun laws proposed in the wake of mass shootings routinely fail in Congress.
It is understandable why Americans might have, by now, resigned themselves to the idea that mass shootings are just part of what it means to live and die in the United States. Less than a week since the massacre at an Orlando nightclub, we are somewhere in the middle of this process. After that, it isn’t very long before the homemade signs and teddy bears vanish. Then come the strongly worded editorials. Soon, the therapy dogs amble through broken towns, nuzzling people who feel numb. Thoughts and prayers are issued, moments of silence are observed, famous buildings are either illuminated or darkened, and candlelight vigils are held. Usually, the dead are still being counted when the platitudes begin to roll in. The aftermath of a mass shooting in the United States is, at this point, a well-scripted affair.
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