"I don't want prayers. I don't want thoughts. I want gun control."

Susan Orfanos says her son, Telemachus Orfanos, survived last year's Las Vegas mass shooting but did not survive the massacre at a Thousand Oaks bar. pic.twitter.com/fM1JtTMcPn

— ABC News (@ABC) November 9, 2018

What we're dealing with — those of us who are sane in the U.S. — are people who can watch the grieving mother, above, and the grieving father, below, and laugh.

 

Heart-wrenching moment as father announces his son was killed in Thousand Oaks mass shooting. “Only him and I know, how I loved—how much I miss him…Oh, son, I love you so much.” https://t.co/H1XcH2w5PS pic.twitter.com/mAtfVmIIhy

— ABC News (@ABC) November 8, 2018