somebody expressed a thought I've had swimming around for a while: name another major country that had guns expressly codified into the core of law from day 1.
the national anthem is about rockets and bombs...there's something to the idea that American culture specifically fosters this type of action.
there's a lot more I want to say, but I probably already typed it last time.
I'l say it.
Native Americans were almost wiped clean off the United States map.
A ton of Africans were snatched from their families, enslaved and forced to build said country that was founded from raping and killing and theft and trickery.
Fear, intimidation, mass murder, rape, terrorism, etc persisted and enforced by every fabric of this nation against black ppl.
White supremacy is this country's God. Easily. The strategic brain washing that goes in here is and the rewriting of historical facts is uncanny.
It's at a global scale of course but since we're focusing on the u.s. and the shoe fits...
We glorify guns. We glorify death. Neither is native to Africa yet here we are as black Americans in this hell. And we see what goes on there too post colonization.
It is what it is. Til we address that, it will remain what it is and what it has been.
This shooting is one of many.
There's a problem with mental illness, with this gun and drug culture, etc. Period. And nobody with power will do anything because the nra is powerful and politicians arent willing to fall on their swords for their constituents. They won't do the right thing because it is not in their nature and they aren't inteested in it.
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that in the short-term, measures could be taken to make things much more difficult for people to legally obtain firearms.
