Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gather on Thursday in Parkland, Fla. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in a shooting at the school on Wednesday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Image here.

Seventeen people were killed by a gunman in Florida and I feel – nothing.

No, that’s not exactly correct. I feel a certain righteous indignation. The Republican governor of Florida, Rick Scott, thinks FBI director Christopher Wray should resign, because the Bureau got a tip on gunman Nikolas Cruz and didn’t follow it up. Oh, please. The Broward County sheriff’s office got numerous complaints about this guy. Listen, it’s always the same story – young white guy with a disproportionate rage at the world. And it’s always the same result. And the same response. Thoughts and prayers. Nutjob.

There will always be nutjobs. You cannot control other people. What we can control is the sale of guns. But no one wants to hear this.

These tragedies remind me of those lines from the Civil War-set movie “Cold Mountain”: “They call this war ‘a cloud over the land,’ but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘Sh--, it's rainin'.’”

Precisely. If America wanted to end this kind of shooting, it could. But people don’t want to. They want their guns.

As for Rick Scott, governor of an open-carry state, if he wants to know whom to blame, he and other politicians need only look in a mirror.