The definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times and expecting a different result. There isn't a better example of that than our psychotic gun culture. There was a shooting near a Little League baseball game in North Carolina on Sunday.
Video of the shooting shows a first shot being fired nearby, startling the 7 and 8-year-olds, coaches and umpires, and everyone in the stands. A few feet from one of the players in the game, a bullet landed in the outfielder. There is a cloud of smoke after a bullet hits the grass.
The people on the field immediately fell to the ground. In the case of an active shooter, one parent had to decide whether to run to his car and grab his pistol or try to cover his child. He was prepared to shoot back at anyone who tried to harm him. No one from the game was hurt. The van's back window was shot out in the video.
The rest of the Little League state championship game was canceled. The teams dropped out because of the shooting. There was no evidence that anyone was targeted by gunfire. Two cars that were involved in the shooting were not owned by anyone at the game. The tournament is still going on, but police are still looking into the incident.
America's youth have grown accustomed to mass shooting readiness since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting ten years ago. Innocent lives can be lost more frequently if that is the case. There have been 167 mass shootings in America since the Little League incident.
In the 76 days since the mass shooting in North Charleston, S.C., a number of high-profile mass shootings have taken place in various states. Unless something changes, events like this one in North Carolina will continue. It is sickening to think that they are nothing more than sitting ducks in order to appease the gun lobby. It is worse than sickening.
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