BTRTN: The One Thing That the United States Indisputably Does Better than Any Country on Earth
Born To Run The Numbers reflects on another week of mass murder in the United States. It is time that we took a hard look in the mirror and accept that there is only one area in which we are leaps and bounds ahead of every other country… and that is the creation, manufacture, and distribution of murder weapons.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2022/11/btrtn-one-thing-that-united-states.html
Excerpts:"Remember that missile that took out al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri back in July? The Hellfire R9X Missile killed the al Qaeda leader without a single civilian casualty...We really are the good guys, aren’t we?
"Not so fast. Meanwhile, back home…There was Newtown. Las Vegas. Parkland. Uvalde. And now we add Colorado Springs and Chesapeake to a list that is far, far longer than you realize...
"Here is a different way to think about what the framers of the Constitution intended. Perhaps they merely intended that any citizen in the United States is entitled to own a gun as guns existed in 1789. When James Madison took out his quill pen in the candlelight and drafted the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution on parchment, he was informed by the technology of his day. He was not imagining a weapon that any deviant could use to walk into an elementary school and spray molten lead into the tender bodies of defenseless six-year-old boys and girls..."
"Let’s demand a government that is less worried about collateral damage to a terrorist’s family, and a whole lot more focused on the collateral damage wrought in a bar in Colorado Springs, a Walmart in Chesapeake, and in elementary schools from Newtown to Uvalde.
"It is why we offer thoughts and prayers. Thoughts are not actions, and prayers are wishes that an omnipotent power will act for us."
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