This Week's Opening Thought: July 15, 2024

This week’s opening thought: All that violent shuckin’ and jivin’ this past weekend, and there still won’t be one piece of realistic and tangible gun legislation drafted to try and ensure this kind of thing is mitigated or outright eliminated.

If they weren’t going to draft and pass bipartisan sensible legislation to protect children, they sure as hell aren’t to protect people like you-know-who.

Meanwhile, this high-profile event was one of four mass shootings in the United States this weekend, bringing us to 37 mass shootings in July alone. As a whole, 430 people have been killed, and 1,405 people have been wounded in 341 shootings in 2024.

But you know, the right to bear arms and whatnot.

And the beat goes on.