Here we are, another week and another mass shooting. This time in a rural Texas church, a man who escaped a mental health facility and still bought an AR-15, walked in and slaughtered 26 men, women and children.

I already wrote this editorial about a month ago. That time a deranged man fired and killed many concert goers. Two of the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States, and so far all the people who should be trying to save us have sent out many thoughts and prayers. I’m not a religious person I’ll admit that, and maybe hearing that does give people who are religious some comfort. But for me this does nothing. I can send my thoughts and prayers all I want, but in the end does doing that change anything? All over the World people who send their prayers sent many to the Vegas situation, and what has changed?

Here we are just over a month later and we are having this same debate. President Donald Trump said after the Vegas shooting it was too soon to talk about gun laws. While in South Korea, Trump blasted a reporter for asking about the shooting in Texas, stating not enough time has gone by to talk about it. This is coming from the same man who took all of three minutes to go on a multiple tweet tirade calling for extreme vetting for immigration after the terror attack in New York.

Trump made a good point during this exchange, stating many more people would have died if it weren’t for Stephen Willeford, a gun-wielding hero, who heard the shooting and ran barefoot toward the church before jumping into another man’s car to chase the gunman away. Willeford is an example of a responsible gun owner who should have nothing to worry about with stricter gun laws.

The man who killed crying children at point blank range, and three generations of a family, had a history of domestic violence as well as mental health problems. He escaped a mental health facility in 2012 while in the Air force. He had made death threats against his superiors and tried to smuggle weapons onto the base he was stationed at. He was left off the prohibited gun owners list because of a mistake in the system. How can anyone with this kind of past just slip through the cracks like that? And how can anyone in Congress be ok with hearing the worst mass shooting in history over and over month after month?

The money the NRA lobbyists are paying congress to stay quiet on this issue is not worth even one life that is taken from this Earth too soon. The blood is on their hands and they will have to live with this for the rest of their lives. Next time this happens and you still haven’t done anything to protect your people please save your thoughts and prayers.