When one concedes the battle of language, one is already losing the war. President Obama in his interview with the BBC:
The issue of guns, that is an area where if you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws.
"Mayci Breaux, 21, died at the scene, and Jillian Johnson, 33, died later at a nearby [Lafayette, Louisiana] hospital," reports CNN. The shooter "was a guy that was a drifter ... that just happened to be in this theater and took two beautiful lives," said state policeman Michael Edmonson.
"We were like, wow, this is crazy," said a theatre patron. "Coming to a movie on a Thursday night, we never expected that we would see a crime scene and a gunman (in our) theater."
The issue at stake isn't that the United States is negligent of "gun safety," but that the gunman was in control of a gun.
Gov. Jindal's solution? "We can pray. We can hug these families. We can shower them with love, thoughts and prayers." After, that is, their loved ones are dead —and the same goes for tomorrow. What an unmitigated, diseased, uncaring ass.