Maine's mass shooting should change America's gun culture

It's time for votes and actions, not just thoughts and prayers, writes Michael R Bloomberg

In an image taken from a video released by the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office, an unidentified gunman points a gun while entering Sparetime Recreation in Lewiston, Maine, last Wednesday. 

Another mass shooting. Another group of innocents slaughtered. Another public gathering place terrorised. Another community devastated. And another occasion for the gun lobby to say: Oh, well, move along, nothing to see here.

Not this time. We can’t let it happen again. We can’t let the gun lobby get away with it. Not when your community — your bowling alley, your bar, your house of worship, your movie theatre, your supermarket, your shopping mall, your workplace and, yes, your child’s school — could be next.