Plimpton's take on the Oregon community school shooting—and her compare-and-contrast take on gun and abortion rights—is required reading:

Planned Parenthood provides needed, essential health care to 2.7 million Americans – male, female, cisgender, transgender, poor, underserved, and rural populations – each year. These services save lives, help keep families healthy and intact and prevent thousands of unintended pregnancies which, as every relevant health study has shown, reduces the rate of abortion.

Yet while this Congress wastes millions of dollars investigating debunked claims of an imaginary “baby parts” black market, they refuse to even consider funding a simple, non-binding study on the effects of gun violence on public health, which causes more deaths each year than in any other industrialized nation on Earth.

The hypocrisy of GOP “pro-life” ideology has become a joke. While 51 new abortion restrictions have been enacted at the state level this first half of this year alone, not a single bill has reached the floor of the US House that would attempt to address gun violence. Millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted investigating a health care organization that saves lives and, sometimes, provides a constitutionally-protected and necessary health care procedure that interrupts pregnancy. Yet we are told it’s not worth spending a cent to learn how to save the lives of living, breathing, studying, working, family-raising human beings.

Go read the whole amazing thing.