So.
Once again, for the 273rd time in 275 days in this year alone, (383 in 2016), the nature of
this society called America has shown itself in spades. And it ain't
pretty. But apparently no massacre is bad enough to do something
about the gun violence in this country. No group of victims is too
heinous to do something about the gun violence in this country. No,
anything besides unfettered access to whatever and however many guns
a person can have, no matter their criminal or mental or social
dis-functions, is unAmerican.
Captured
from FB
Hard
to argue with that.
I
also read an article from the Atlantic about the dark truth of this
society...
“No
other society allows the massacres to keep happening. Everyone around
the world knows this about the United States. It is the worst aspect
of the American national identity.”
As
long as it's white male 'lone wolfs' whatever they do is tolerable.
The
other truth is that this is who we are and we know it. We know this
will continue, and it will, because we do nothing to change it.
No
other nation that is not ruled by anarchy allows this to happen.
The
273rd mass murder, defined as four or more casualties, and
the worst to date in terms of casualties inflicted, in 275 days.
That's almost one a day. One mass murder a day not counting just the
one or two killed. The thousands of women killed every year not by
an unbalanced individual but by someone they know and possibly love.
The hundreds of children killed every year, now the third leading
cause of death. The thousands of people shot because someone was
enraged and had a gun. The thousands of suicides every year. Some statistics here from Newsweek.
And
because the body counts aren't high enough, Congress, the lap dog of
the NRA and gun lobby, wants to throw silencers into the mix.
