Other nations have banned guns, or banned the worst guns, and seen dramatic decreases in mass shootings. Throwing up one's hands and exclaiming that nothing can be done is not the action of a population or sub-population that is thinking straight.
The U.S. puts almost as much money into war weaponry as the rest of the world combined, with much of the rest of the world buying U.S. weaponry pushed on it by a U.S. State Department turned into a weapons dealer. The result is anti-U.S. hostility at levels other nations can't imagine going to such expense and effort to generate. Celebrating the weapons that endanger and impoverish is a form of sickness.
Each war kills large numbers of innocent people, disproportionately the very old and the very young. Each day, the vast majority of the people killed with U.S. weapons are outside the United States. Each war leaves a new area of the world devastated, more violent, and a greater threat to others.
When you're in a hole, the first step is not to use explosives to dig faster.
There are some things, said Dr. King, to which we should insist on remaining maladjusted.
In a time of universal deceit, said George Orwell, telling the truth becomes an act of rebellion.
Can a large group of thoughtful, committed citizens change the world? Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Rebel!
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