Yesterday was a horribly, horribly sad day for the United States.

How many times have we said that over the past several years? How many more times will we repeat it? How many more times are we going to mean it even more than we did last time, just because the death toll is higher?

Fifty people gone. Fifty-three wounded. We have truly lost our way.

Letโ€™s begin by looking at some of our elected leaders that wonโ€™t even try to protect us from the new normal of mass shootings, because theyโ€™re too busy rimming Wayne LaPierre for NRA endorsements.

1. Outing the NRAโ€™s political lackeys: Igor Volsky, director of the Center for American Action Fund, was all over that Sunday:

And:
Oh, you wanna read Tillisโ€™s statement? OK, sure:

Well, you did ask.

All of Volskyโ€™s Tweets from Sunday are worth your time. When he wasnโ€™t calling B.S. on the hypocritical and sanctimonious, he was just plain calling out hate:


Note column one, highlighted item No. 2.

More on him later.

2. So hereโ€™s what Pat did.On Twitter.


Bio: Danny Hooley lives in Durham, writes about television and music and plays in The Bastages.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dhoohoo