From South Street to Uvalde to Buffalo to Tulsa. 'The backstories vary, but the through line remains constant — too much firepower, in the world’s only nation with more guns than people,' writes columnist Will_Bunch.
The shootings on South Street, and in Uvalde and Buffalo are a summons to our fundamental humanity. What’s frustrating is that we can think back to other times and other issues when America — despite its poisoned roots in white supremacy and patriarchy — could summon its better angels. In my lifetime, the images ofand spraying water cannons at Black people marching for their civil rights caused the majority to successfully end legal segregation, for example.
Having a conscience and trying to do something meant the end of Chris Jacobs’ career as a member of the Republican Party. Within hours of his statement,by Donald Trump Jr., who wrote that Jacobs had “caved to the gun-grabbers,” and Jacobs suddenly saw 2022 GOP primary challengers crawling out of the woodwork.
This results in uncompromising policy. Here in Pennsylvania, conservatives are quick to blame any violence in Philadelphia on the city’s liberal Democratic leaders, including reform-minded DA Larry Krasner. They don’t want to talk about the guns, they don’t really want to talk about the cops . And they definitely don’t want people to ponder how the NRA-funded, GOP-led legislatureThat is tragic, because gun laws work.
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