Cartoon by Ward Sutton. (Links: Twitter and Los Angeles Times.)
Make no mistake, the Republican Party has pursued, with deliberation and forethought, over several decades, public polices that have vastly increased the number of guns in the U.S. and accelerated the deluge of mass shootings.
We didn't get here by happenstance or divine intervention, but by choices embraced by Republicans in elected and appointed office and in conservative media.
Republicans would like to pretend otherwise; hence, their familiar threadbare responses to gun violence.