I'm all for doing away with the phrase 'senseless acts,' too. It gives credence to the notion that a) this couldn't have been predicted/prevented, and b) that there's any kind of tragedy that 'makes sense.'

Exactly.

We should examine those things, too, but they're not mutually exclusive and certainly not separate issues.

Except tomorrow could yield another mass shooting. So, no.

You'd have to try real hard to kill someone with a cigarette. Is this a joke?

Nice try, chief, except you just perfectly demonstrated the difference between an attack with a knife and an attack with a gun — 29 killed vs 0 killed. Go crawl back under your rock.

Yeah, the problem with this is that there often isn't time to 'clean up the bodies' before the next mass shooting happens.

Yeah, he claimed that the teachers would've 'sprung into action' and 'denied the shooters their spree.' Okay, whatever. My social media's needed a good, thorough scrubbing for a while now, you know?

Do you think someone who wasn't mentally ill would run around shooting places up?

'If only every teacher had been strapped, with a shotgun under the desk like an old saloon, none of this would have happened. '

First of all, if a guy is cumming too quickly during sex, giving him a blow-job beforehand is definitely not the answer.