CBS News posted on their site a story about 18 deadliest U.S. mass shootings. I looked up some of the details:  example - 0/2 = dead/wounded

Sep 1949: Camden, NJ: WW II vet on rampage, 13/3; Luger pistol.

Aug 1996: Austin TX: former Marine on rampage, 17/31; Rem. 6mm; M-1 carbine; .35 caliber; 12 gaug shotgun; .357 magnum; Luger; knife; .25 ACP.

1982: Wilkes-Barre PA: prison guard on rampage, 13/0; AR-15

1983: Seattle, WA: gang hit, three shooters, 13/0 multiple firearms.

1984: San Ysidro, CA: survivalist/security guard on rampage, 21/19; Uzi; shotgun; pistol.

1986: Edmond, OK: postal worker on rampage, 14/6; two .45 semi-auto pistols, one .22 Ruger semi-auto pistol.

Oct 1991: Killeen, TX: 23/27; unemployed man on rampage; Glock 17; Ruger P89.

Apr 1999: Columbine CO; 13/26; two students, Tec-9 among several weapons and unexploded bombs.

Apr 2007: Virginia Tech, VA; 32/23; student; Glock 19; Walther P22.

Apr 2009: Binghampton, NY; 13/4; unemployed Vietnam native; 9mm Beretta; Beretta .45

Nov 2009: Ft. Hood, TX; 13/32; major; FN5-7 pistol; .357 magnum.

2012: Aurora, CO: 12/62; student; tear gas, M + P 15 Sport Rifle; 870 Remington Shotgun; Glock 22; FN5-7 pistol; .357 magnum.

Dec 2012: Sandy Hook, NY: 27/2; man on rampage; AR-15; Glock 10mm; two semi-auto handguns; hundreds of rounds of ammo; several magazines.

2014: Wash. D. C. Naval Yard: 12/8; civilian contractor; Rem 870 shotgun.

2015: San Bernadino, CA: 14/24; Muslim; two .223 AR-15s; 2 9mm guns; pipe bombs.

Dec 2015: Orlando, FL: 49/53; Muslim; Sig Sauer semi-auto rifle; 9mm Glock 17 semi-auto pistol.

Oct 2017: Las Vegas, NV: 58/546; four DDM rifles; three FN-15 rifles; one AR-15 rifle; one AR-10 rifle; 1 AK-47 rifle; one LMT rifle made to order; one handgun.

Nov 2017: Sutherland, TX: 26/20; all in church; unbalanced shooter; automatic weapon; 30 empty mags found holding 15 rounds each.

Total dead: 338, does not include shooters themselves.

Total injured: 886 (548 in NV alone)

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Number of NRA conventions in victim cities: at least one, Denver, shortly after Columbine.

Congressional response to massacres since 2004:

1. 2004: Effort to renew the assault weapons ban law of 1994 failed in a Republican-controlled Congress.

2. 2008, post-VA. Tech shooting, Bush II signed into law an expansion of FBI background check system; also required agencies to keep up to date records on people with mental health issues and felons.

3. 2011, post-Rep. Gifford shooting (one of their own): a bill closing gun show loopholes and banning high-capacity magazines, failed.

4. 2013, post-Sandy Hook Elem. School massacre: a bill expanding background checks failed, as did proposed amendments to this bill banning high-capacity clips and limiting size of magazines to 10 clips.

5. 2015, post-San Bernadino shooting: Senate rejected a series of gun control bills; failed repealing funding gun ban on gun violence research.

6. 2016: Bi-partisan bill on background checks failed in Senate.

7. 2016: post-Orlando nightclub shooting: a bill proposing a no-fly, no-buy terrorist watchlist ban on purchasing weapons failed in Senate; never came to a vote in the House; Trump on campaign trail was in favor of this bill, as were 86% of polled voters.

  

NRA spending 1998-2016 to politicians, political action committees, campaigns usually without coordination with candidate, for or against: $207m.

Break-out since 1998:

Donations to Congress members: $4.23m (source: Washington Post newspaper).

Contributions to candidate, P.A.C.s, $13m.

Outside spending: "independent expenditures, often ad campaigns for or against a candidate without coordinating with same": $144m.

Federal lobbying: $46m.

After researching this, studying what I have presented here, I have come to these conclusions:

1. Congress does not care and will not act to reduce massacres. Your representatives simply do not care about mass murder.

2. NRA money talks, and bullshit walks.

3. Massacres will continue and so will the hand-wringing and the crying and the spin, but nothing, absolutely nothing, will change in America.

Mind you, this is just a list of the deadliest massacres. Wikipedia and the FBI have far more data on mass killings.

Pretty sick. It's worse than sick, because as a nation, as a society, we have chosen to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to change this, to reduce this, to make our communities safer. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Shame on us all.