The mothers set up their table by the door.
There was no special significance to that. It’s just that the group, which calls itself Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, felt that the door might be a good spot to grab people’s attention during what otherwise was supposed to be a 24-hour celebration of music and arts in Trenton.
Then came the gunfire — with the first bullets fired only a few feet from the moms’ table and a sign that asked people to “Imagine a world free of gun violence: What do you see?”
This was just one of the not-so-small incongruous details to emerge on Sunday from the latest American mass shooting, at the Art All Night festival in Trenton — an event that was supposed to promote “artistic diversity by fostering creativity’’ but instead became a shooting gallery.

Kelly: A mass shooting comes to New Jersey. What can be done?

J. Kb. already covered very well the event. I stumbled into the fact that the New Jersey chapter of Moms Demand happened to have a booth inside the building. What I can’t figure out is if there was somebody there at the time of the incident.  I check both the maim MDA FB page and the NJ one and other than saying everybody is OK, they offer no details. Although I would not be surprised that they’d come tomorrow saying they were “survivors” of the shooting because they happened to be in the same zip code just like Hogg and Emma do.

Will this shooting affect MDA’s modus operandi? Since its inception, Moms has been very careful by staging their booths and events in secure areas. They speak a lot about gun violence, but you won’t see them preaching their chitchat in the bad parts of town. This time, the bad part of town came to the party and, if they were there, I am sure some undies were soiled.

In the meantime,  hundreds of thousands of NRA members and other Gun Owners conducted “mass shooting” all over ranges across the nation and the only victims were made of paper.