“While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Donald Trump made his first public comments on the shooting. ‘It’s a shame. Horrible thing. Horrible thing. Things like this take place.’”

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A shooter opened fire on campus at Florida State University, killing two people and injuring six others. Unfortunately, this is a sickening scenario that has become commonplace in high schools, universities, houses of worship, concert venues and almost anywhere that people congregate in public.

When such senseless acts of violence take place, reporters ask the president, who is supposed to be the consoler-in-chief, to say a few words to try to make sense of the senseless.

The current president is a sociopath incapable of empathy, so we should not be surprised that his initial reaction was: “things like this take place.” He might as well have said, “shit happens.”

When questioned later by reporters on whether another mass shooting should result in changes to gun legislation, Trump instead defended the Second Amendment.

Trump was not so cavalier when an assassin’s bullet nicked his ear. He milked the moment for all it was worth, wearing a bandage that looked like a sanitary pad for weeks afterward.

A vacuous statement like “Things like this take place” from the president and “thoughts and prayer” offered by the MAGA faithful are like a slap on the face to the victims’ families.

We need to take gun violence seriously and we need gun legislation that bans assault rifles. That’s what the victims’ of gun violence want.