Tasteless

Although highly regulated, automatic weapons such as machine guns and assault rifles are not illegal at the federal level.  Owning such a weapon is a lengthy and expensive process requiring special permission from the ATF, with plenty of hoops to jump through, but it can be done.  When a weapon is said to be illegal it is because the fees and taxes have not been paid but the feds are like that.  LINK

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Since some folks are eager to install cops in the schools to forestall future shootings, how about the other locations where those shootings have occurred, like churches?  Are you going to put a cop in every church, temple, synagogue, or mosque?  People are the problem, not the weapons, like the goofballs that drive a truck through a crowded shopping center.  Has anybody talked about banning rental trucks?

The kid in Florida who shot up that school had a history of problems yet he fell through the cracks, not getting the help he needed.  Something should have been done but wasn't, and maybe that's the high price we pay for a free society.  I don't have any answers for this one.

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One of the problems with movies is that we may have become jaded with the abundance of product.  There are only so many plot structures available, some say three, some seven, others as many as 36, and we've run the well dry.  The same could be said for music or literature.  We have such an abundance that nothing is new or exciting and we are losing  our sense of taste, as it were.  This is just a passing thought in further need of development.

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I guess the Finns aren't so dour after all.  According to the AP, Finland leads the world in the Global Happiness Index.  And for some reason, the US has dropped from 14th to 18th place.  Is it because we've been Trumped?