​We have had nearly 400 mass shootings in this country in 2015. It is three years now since Sandy Hook, a week since Colorado Springs, and a day since Savannah and Houston, and San Bernardino. All that’s changed since LBJ signed his bill is that we have decided, as a nation, that he was wrong in what he said. There is no amount of anguish that we cannot quickly forget. Some days, I truly wish the Tree of Liberty was a cactus, so we wouldn’t have to water it so damned much.​

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Love that last line!