“Only in America” once was a good thing

Created
Wed, 29/03/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Wed, 29/03/2023 - 00:00
Now tolerating “pure evil” is How long before carnival shooting galleries replace little yellow ducks with cutouts of schoolchildren? Would anyone notice? Would anyone take offense? First news reports Monday said the Nashville elementary school shooter was a woman. All the rest was familiar. All too familiar. Read the gory details elsewhere. What stood out in the aftermath more than the gender identity of the shooter was the exasperated reaction of one Nashville tourist, Ashbey Beasley: “It’s only in America can somebody survive a mass shooting and then go on vacation…and find themselves near another mass shooting.” “That is a thing that happens now in our country,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told viewers Monday night. “Gun murders are in fact so common in this country that the shooter in one attack can shoot and kill 11 people [and] drive to a nearby parking lot to kill himself at the site of where another mass shooting had occurred just a few years prior.” Beasley’s preliminary assumptions about the shooter appear incorrect, but so are many early reports about these events. In one video, Beasley says she’s in town to visit a sister-in-law. In another, she says she’s visiting someone she met through gun safety advocacy. Both can be true these days. God Bless America. New York Times: As a spokesman for the Nashville Police wrapped up a news conference on the mass shooting at an elementary school, an exasperated mother stepped up to the cluster of microphones and cried out: “Aren’t you…