America's Hands Are Full of Blood

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/25/americas-hands-are-full-of-blood/


America’s Hands Are Full of Blood
May 25, 2022 at 5:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

David Frum: “Every other democracy makes some considerable effort to keep guns away from dangerous people, and dangerous people away from guns. For many years—and especially since the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School almost a decade ago—the United States has put more and more guns into more and more hands: 120 guns per 100 people in this country.”

“The years of the pandemic have been the years of the greatest gun sales in U.S. history: almost 20 million guns sold in 2020; another 18.5 million sold in 2021. No surprise, those two years also witnessed a surge in gun violence: the spectacular human butchery of our recurring mass slaughters; the surge of one-on-one lethal criminality; the unceasing tragic toll of carelessness as American gun owners hurt and kill their loved ones and themselves.”

“Most of us are appalled. But not enough of us are sufficiently appalled to cast our votes to halt it.”

[Irish_Dem]

1. History will not judge us kindly, we deserve the disdain and disgust of future generations.

We are appalled by the killing but not enough to do anything about it.