'Now we are becoming a culture—not of power, dynamism, enlightenment, and reason, but of “darkness” and “helplessness.”'
Our French friends now refer to America as a “gun culture.” They now worry about coming to visit us, and they worry about a culture that seems helpless to protect its children. For our children, we need a “cultural fix.”
What kind of culture does this, then after the slaughter, arms us, the enablers, with mere hollow recitations of “thoughts and prayers?” What kind of culture, in effect, issues hunting licenses both for children and deer? Wait! I have misspoken! There are differences. No one goes hunting for deer in the hills of Tennessee or Texas with assault rifles or 9mm Glocks. The deer are “free” to roam the forest or blend into the brush, mesquite, and cactus of the desert.
The deer have a chance. They are hunted as individuals. They are not slaughtered in groups. The license to hunt deer has a “bag limit.” The license to hunt children does not. It makes so much “perverse sense.” If the license is to kill as many captive children as possible, why wouldn’t you be armed with the urban weapon of war of lunatic choice? The AR-15 is the perfect weapon, and it’s so very very available.
What kind of culture never goes on offense? What kind of culture is it that can only react to the hunting and killing of children with training to shorten the reaction time for first responders to get to the killing fields, or by teaching our children to hide in closets, or by arming and training our teachers how to play defense? What kind of culture produces leaders to think that school safety is to build better fences, install more security cameras, install more metal detectors, harden more...
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