slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

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THE ONION/10-2-17 Vol 53, Issue 39

WASHINGTON—Expressing a sense of guarded optimism that the latest incident of gun violence that left 58 dead and 500 injured in Las Vegas would be a turning point for the nation, Americans across the country confirmed Monday they were hopeful this would be the last mass shooting before all such occurrences stopped on their own for no reason at all. “After something as horrific as what happened in Las Vegas, we’re all just hoping that now these terrible shootings will stop once and for all without circumstances changing in any way or any of us taking even the slightest amount of action in response,” said Harrisburg, PA resident David Snyder, echoing the sentiments of tens of millions of citizens from coast to coast who told reporters they were confident that, after living through the most deadly mass shooting in modern American history and taking no material steps to change gun laws, reevaluate safety standards, increase access to mental health care, or even have a national conversation about how mass shootings could be avoided in the future, tragedies of this kind would at long last come to an end. “Having seen acts of violence like this happen over and over again for years now, I’m really holding out hope that, despite every single factor that allowed them to occur remaining exactly the same, we won’t have to live through another day like today. I know everyone’s praying this will finally be the time this issue just disappears forever entirely by itself without anyone doing anything.” At press time, Americans nationwide agreed that years of taking no measures whatsoever to prevent mass shootings may finally be paying off.

PeterS

I've got my fingers crossed!

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Hey, my friend...h**e to say it but we've seen nothing yet.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

You may be right, but regardless...it's good to see you back on the forum.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Thanks to a couple of friends.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

We haven't given the " do nothing and hope it resolves itself " theory enough time to work. Eventually, all the crazy people in the country will become ashamed enough to modify their behavior, without any intervention, due to the wall to wall, 24/7 coverage of the massacres. What crazy person would NOT get sane, after seeing that the victims were all real people, who were the salt of the earth? Besides, if doing nothing isn't getting us the results we'd like, we need to figure out how to do even less, because nothing is TOO much effort.

I can remember trying to solve complex problems, and having thought of my "best case" plan, put it to work and observed the result. Rarely did my original plan work exactly as intended, if it even worked at all, forcing me to "think again" and come up with a new or modified plan. I have NEVER solved a problem................by letting it solve itself. Most times, I had to fail many, many times before I learned what worked.

IF doing nothing has achieved less than satisfactory results, doing something might be a better option, and if that doesn't work quite right, doing something else would be in order. There is only one "nothing" option available.................... there are limitless "something" options. Seems a no brainer to me.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

You should try to get hired by The Onion, Doc. I think you would make the cut. T

The Pulitzer may even be within your reach.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Very true. What's just one "something", in your opinion? Between all of us we may be able to come up with several somethings.