Everything But the Gun
In the past week, we have heard Republicans explain why easy access to automatic weapons is not the cause of mass shootings - actually, to hear them tell it, that fact is downright irrelevant.
What is most striking about their explanations is not their lack of quality so much as their mind-boggling quantity. We've now heard literally dozens of them: violent video games, broken homes, mental illness, peer pressure, gender confusion, anxiety, romantic problems, fear of rejection - even pot-smoking and abortion.
In other words, everything but the gun.
When your party's only strategy is let's keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks, isn't it time to question why throwing shit is necessary - or, more to the point, why throwing shit is the only option?
Lies require constant edits, rewrites, revisions, newly-conceived interpretations, differing perspectives, changing stories, and "alternative facts".
On the other hand, the truth requires nothing more than being told once - and despite the outrage, the disdain, the denial of the GOP, the truth sticks to the wall just fine.
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Lies require constant edits, rewrites, revisions, newly-conceived interpretations, differing perspectives,
changing stories, and "alternative facts".
