From Brown to Bondi: two shootings, one big difference
From Kaiser Family Report “Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries” What strikes one first off is that is that the Australian slaughter was an anomaly. The shooting at Brown University is almost now a social ritual. Statement by Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese The one has prompted the national government to discuss enacting even stronger legislation(1) to limit who gets to own guns. The other tragedy has prompted the national government to do nothing. ‘Thoughts and prayers” from elected officials in the back pockets (oh, who am I kidding? front pockets, too) of the gun lobby are likewise meaningless, compounded by anti-public healthcare legislation at almost every turn, a Presidential Regime that could care less about whether the non-rich live or die, a complicit Supreme Court and Congress, and a vocal ultra-Right Wing cabal of dunderheads who scream about violations to the Second Amendment and that the government is going to take their ...