El Paso and Dayton

In a span of 14 hours two mass shootings, both of which involved semi-automatic rifles and extended capacity clips, have resulted in the deaths of 31 people.

I've never been to Dayton but I've been to El Paso many times. It's a nice place with friendly people. I can't imagine why anyone would do this kind of thing.

The El Paso shooter left a manifesto mumbling right wing bullshit about "invasions" and condemning things like inter-racial and inter-ethnic marriage. The guy was clearly a nut. He's in custody so now we get the horror of a trial.

Everyone wants a piece of this guy. Texas says it will seek the death penalty; the federal government is talking about treating it as terrorism and a hate crime which would also carry the death penalty and the Mexicans are demanding extradition because at least six of the victims were Mexican nationals.

There isn't as much information about the Dayton shooter other than he killed his own sister and sounds like he had serious issues. He's dead so we won't have to worry about a trial in Ohio.

This is ridiculous. Crazies like this need to be prevented from getting guns. If the only way to do that is to prevent anyone from getting a gun, then so be it.