I have blogged about guns so many times that I am sick of
the subject--and any faithful followers that I might have are probably sick of
it, too.
So this is kind of a summation.
I don't understand how many shootings it's going to take
before the American populace demands that something be done about the problem.
I also don't understand why this is not apparent to people:
that the problem is one of the prevalence of guns and the easy availability of
guns.
As to the first: According to statistics available on the
Internet, in 2017 and 2018, 42% and 43% of American households owned one or
more firearm.
When guns are prevalent, there will be accidents such as
children shooting themselves or other children, or accidentally being shot by
their parents or other adults. Also, episodes of anger, such as an argument in
a bar or road rage, all too often mean that someone whips out a gun and shoots
someone else. If you pay attention to the news, you know that these things are
in fact happening, and at a rate of several per week, with hundreds being
murdered by guns annually.
And easy availability of guns in America
has given us the school shootings and other mass shootings where someone
mentally or emotionally unstable kills numerous innocent people--children and
others.
America
mourns these occurrences but at the same time seems to accept them as a fact of
life in the US.
(If I were Donald Trump writing a tweet, I'd summarize with a term like
"sad" or "tragic" or "shameful" or
"disgusting.") I'm about to become cynical and conclude that nothing
will be done any time soon.
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