Five people were killed and eight others were wounded at the Old National Bank in Louisville by a former co-worker who livestreamed a portion of his crimes before he died by gunfire. However, it is not clear if the gunman took his own life or if he was killed by Louisville PD. One of the victims was a close friend of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.
A number of officers were then subsequently summoned to the Jefferson Community and Technical College for an unrelated shooting which claimed the life of one person with one other wounded.
Mass shootings have become such a frequent occurrence in this country that they feel like another day at the office. So long as elected officials refuse to address the problem in any meaningful way it is only a matter of time before something like this will happen at your office, the grocery store, movie theater, holiday parade or your child's school. Those elected officials who do try to address the problem find themselves expelled from the state legislature as was the case in neighboring Tennessee although this has backfired. While these legislators will return to their old jobs the odds they can pass meaningful gun control legislation is none to none.
Of course, bad things can happen anywhere at any time to anyone. But it seems that where it concerns guns bad things are more likely to happen in the United States than anywhere else. With that we will see what tomorrow brings.
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