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Roberts: After Florida school shooting, here's what will happen

Once again, the unthinkable has hit America smack in the face.

Yet another mass shooting, this time in a Florida high school. Yet another day when lives have been senselessly ended and forever changed.

So, you know the drill.

Here's the mass shooting playbook

First, come thoughts and prayers followed quickly by the cry that thoughts and prayers are not enough.

Then comes the entirely logical question of when are we going to at least try to do something to limit the carnage in our schools. And in our shopping centers. And at our movie theaters and nightclubs and outdoor concerts.

As night follows day, the horrified reply will be that it’s too soon to politicize this tragedy.

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And once again we will find when the appropriate time is that America should at long last confront these horrifying mass attacks in our schools. And in our shopping centers. And our movie theaters and outdoor concerts.

Never, that would be.

We didn’t do anything when a classroom full of first graders were executed. We didn’t do anything when a movie theater full of Batman fans or a nightclub full of people were executed.

We didn’t do anything when country music fans became sitting ducks for a madman armed with what amounted to a machine gun.

We didn't do anything then, won't now

Nothing.

No requirements to strengthen background checks. No initiatives to try to better identify those with mental issues who should never be allowed access to guns.

No push to regulate the sale of extended magazines or bump stocks to at least try to cut down on the carnage.

MONTINI: Florida school shooting won't change a thing

It is a sad but indisputable fact that no amount of horror at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is going to change a darn thing in this country.

Not when it happens in Florida. Not when – sadly, not if, but when – it happens in Arizona.

The American mantra seems to be this: mourn and move on.

Until next time …

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