groundhog day just two days after groundhog day

It's been pretty quiet up north lately.  My whole morning ritual of start the coffee, shower, feed the cats, pour myself a cup, fire up the computer and see what has come over the transom while I have been fast asleep, thrum my thumbs in front of the keyboard while coffee fills my humongous (as I tell the cats) great ape brain. formulate a response, and let her rip.  But this morning there is nothing to respond to. 

The morning after a school shooting, the 18th such morning in the 35 days of this year that have so far elapsed.  Of course this one is probably the worst, so far, but still that is a lot of shootings.  I just now did a bit of internet research and I have to say my side has loaded up on this a bit.  Some of them are suicides and some of them are stray bullets that didn't hit anybody.  Here's a better statistic 439 shot since Sandy Hook in 2012, but then only 121 of them died.  On the other hand this is only school shootings, there are all those other mass shootings. 

Groundhog day was just a few days ago.  It used to just mean how many more weeks of winter but since that movie it has come to mean anything that happens over and over again.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday punted on questions about whether policymakers should take a stand on mental health and gun control, saying that "there's a time" to have such conversations.

"There's a time to continue to have these conversations about how through law enforcement, how through mental illness funding that we make sure that people are safe," Scott said at a news conference in Parkland, Fla. 

Scott's comments came hours after a gunman opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, leaving 17 people dead. 

Scott, a Republican, has an "A+" rating from the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund.

How many times have we heard this?  When is the time to have these conversations?

Remember those bump stocks, good for nothing but making a big bang and shooting fish (people) in a barrel?  After Las Vegas it was not the time to have a conversation about them and the last I heard they were selling like hotcakes.

Ah these anti automatic weapons posts just write themselves/