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The recent incident is another appalling outrage, but what very few of us outside of the US can understand is exactly why the Democrats, so vociferous about the current situation, didn't address any of the issues that they now highlight by proposing and passing enhanced, comprehensive gun control legislation when they had both the House & Senate during the previous eight years of administration? Current politicians avoiding the word 'gun' is strange, but for the Democrats to avoid addressing actual gun law issues when it was within their power for so long, seems to have been a shameful waste of opportunity that now reeks of hypocrisy.

I understand that blind Trump hate is very hip and trendy, albeit somewhat justified; but that constant reflex tends to prejudice any true or balanced political discussion.