Again. The Madness comes to Minneapolis.
The Onion nailed it sometime ago. We will continue to hear politicians and the NRA bullshit about “what to do about this?” Ad nauseam. And no, this is not a two-sided argument: Democrats have repeatedly submitted commonsense gun legislation and the Republicans have repeatedly stonewalled or shot it down. This is not going to be a post written in measured tones. No deep analysis of facts, arguments or figures. We’re way past that. I should be writing in all caps. This, and every article that has anything to do with shootings, gun control, lives lost because of the one and lack of the other, should all be posted in ALL CAPS, like so many primal screams. No, what follows is going to be declarative and judgmental- often harsh - about this country and our society as it is. We are not a particularly smart, or brave, much less, free country. We are not brave, if we feel a need to own guns too. We are not smart: we can’t even pass decent legislation, even if or rather, particularly when ...