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It's not what we're about," said the mayor of El Paso, Texas, after a young white guy shot down a crowd of dark-skinned shoppers with a military-style rifle. Actually, this is what we're about.
Shooting, bombing, and otherwise terrorizing dark-skinned people is our stock in trade. We kill them in Iraq. We kill them in Libya. We kill them in Yemen. We're OK with that. Ask any newsman. Ask your candidates for office. Anybody out there want to end the killing? One presidential candidate had the gall to suggest that the USA might be blameworthy in some way for the wars it wages--this was before the latest shootings--and the newsmen came down on her like a ton of shit.
You can comb published reports of the latest massacres, and you'll find no mention of the wars we've been waging without pause for the last 20 years. The latest two mass murderers never knew a time when their nation was not dropping bombs on people in faraway lands. Does the question not occur to the media: if it's OK that we, as a nation, employ soldiers to kill black and brown people as a matter of policy in distant countries, isn't it also OK for individuals to take up arms, on our behalf, and do the same here?
"Gun control" won't help us with this problem, and neither will improved mental hygiene. You want to prevent mass murder, quit killing people.
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