Contrary to what Biden says, nothing will change after the Georgia school shooting

Another day of a mass shooting in the United States of America. Four have been reported dead, so far, at a Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia. The suspect, who is 14 years old, is in custody.

Vice President Kamala Harris said the same thing Democrats always do when the news came in. She called the shooting a “senseless tragedy on top of so many other senseless tragedies.”

“It doesn’t have to be this way,” she said in New Hampshire, a state with no firearm licensing requirements at all. “So we will of course continue to send our thoughts and prayers to the families and all those who are affected.”

Harris’s running mate, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, said there was “more work to be done.”

Walz has made a big deal about the fact that he used to receive money from the National Rifle Association as a Blue Dog Democrat in Congress before he gave the money away and signed universal background checks and a red flag law as governor.

President Joe Biden, who authored the 1994 ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004, once again tried to appeal to Republicans’ better angels.

“After decades of inaction, Republicans in Congress must finally say ‘enough is enough’ and work with Democrats to pass common-sense gun safety legislation,” he said in a statement not long after Wednesday’s shooting.

But nobody should be under any delusions that anything will fundamentally change when it comes to guns in the United States, at least for the near future.

Here are the cold hard facts: Governor Brian Kemp signed legislation that allowed people in Georgia to purchase a handgun “without having to ask permission from state government,” in his own words. Kemp has now sent condolences to the families of the dead. But he will