Marco Rubio, United States Senator: “too much focus ‘on what people are using to commit violence.’”
John “Jeb” Bush, former Governor of the third most populous state: “Stuff happens.”

These are powerful men, but the gun lobby has turned them into sniveling sycophants, preferring to make utter fools of themselves rather than offend the NRA. It has bent this society to accept the massacre of little children as though it were an accident of nature, like a tornado or a hurricane. What a monstrously powerful and perverse force for subversion it is.