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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEven the French get it...."America is KILLING itself in a cycle of despair."
Source: Huff Post
"America is killing itself and the Republican Party is looking the other way," Le Monde wrote in a scathing editorial.
Frances Le Monde newspaper described the United States as a country trapped in madness after yet another mass shooting at a school claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers in Texas earlier this week.
The newspaper called it a cycle of despair that keeps repeating.
The one in Parkland, in 2018, changed nothing despite the exceptional activism of students who had escaped. They believed it was possible to bring a country sick of its violence back to its senses and remind elected officials of their responsibilities, the newspaper wrote. But they failed.
More at....[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/le-monde-mass-shooting_n_628edc31e4b0edd2d01f514f|
What a sad state of affairs when those abroad see what is happening within the United States.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Indeed, America is killing itself and the Republican Party is looking the other way, ideologically complicit in one tragedy after another. Decades of brainwashing have meant that its elected representatives no longer need even the iron grip of the main gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, which is riddled with crises, to oppose the slightest legislation that would provide a framework for this particularly lucrative market. The defense of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, understood in its most absolutist sense, has become a quasi-sacred duty that now escapes any questioning. The families of victims must be content with the prayers of elected officials, who are not stingy with them.
Thus, the state that was the scene of the last bloodbath after eight other mass shootings in 13 years found nothing better, just a year ago, than to abolish gun permits for people aged 21 or older. "It's time" for Texas to align itself with the most lenient states in this area, argued the governor of this solid conservative bastion, Greg Abbott.
More and more guns: This is the only Republican credo. Americans bought nearly 20 million guns in 2021, the second-largest amount in American history. They also had more than 20,000 gun deaths, not counting suicides, which are even more numerous, and 693 shootings resulted in four or more injuries. Republicans are clearly unable to establish a causal link between the two phenomena. One despairs to imagine them expending the same energy to prevent killings, the perpetrators of which are overwhelmingly men, as they expend selflessly to prevent women from having control over their own bodies.
The dictatorship of the minority had already wielded its power after the Sandy Hook massacre when the Senate wanted to pass background checks for gun buyers, a common sense measure supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Elected officials representing 118 million of their fellow citizens were able to defeat those nominated by 194 million. There is every reason to believe that the same would be true today in this country trapped in this madness.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/05/25/texas-shooting-america-is-killing-itself-as-the-republican-party-looks-the-other-way_5984629_23.html
barbtries
(28,798 posts)is how many people in the USA do not see it as it is.
NCDem47
(2,249 posts)"...it doesn't exist. Now let me get back to my AM radio and FOX News."
or the kardashians or whatever. we are really a very sick country and it didn't start with trump, he was just the worst symptom.
betsuni
(25,537 posts)worry about guns. Of course there are weirdos, pervs and nuts around, but they don't have guns -- you at least have a chance to run away if they go after you with a knife or something. Republicans are killing America.