America's Big Lie: 'This is not who we are'

[CoopersDad]

Here's a great read:

America's Big Lie: 'This is not who we are'

by Vernon Williams

The first thing folk want to claim when we find ourselves in the throes of some unfathomable tragedy is, “This is not us. We are better than this.” Well, if Americans really want to ever get a grip on problems plaguing this nation, the first thing required would be to stop living a lie.

Eight senseless killings in three Atlanta spas were followed only four days later by the soulless slaughter of 10 innocent people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Horrendous as those two incidents were alone, the gruesome truth is that they were only two of at least seven mass murders in the U.S. over about a one-week stretch.In Indianapolis, there have been two mass murders since the start of 2021, including one quadruple deadly assault only days before the Atlanta tragedy. An argument over a stimulus check led a 25-year-old man to shoot the mother of his child and kill four of her relatives, the youngest victim being only seven years old.

In Chicago, during the second weekend of March, there were a total of 40 shootings reported and four killed—including 15 shot and two fatalities at one location in the aftermath of an early-morning party in the 6700 block of South Chicago Avenue. The deadly trend this month is nationwide.

https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2021/04/05/americas-big-lie-this-is-not-who-we-are/

Over and over again after a shooting, leads spokespersons proclaim "This is not who we are".

When you have a gun and gun violence problem, the worst thing to claim is that there is not a problem.

Go ahead and search for the phrase "This is not who we are" + shooting.

[Grins]

1. "You are what your record says you are." - Big Tuna

Still true!

[JoeOtterbein]

2. K n R ! Thanks for posting!...

...the truth!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I guess (and I am being sarcastic here) that we'll have to have multiple shootings in

the Congress itself, or in the Supreme Court itself. And to be honest, I'm kind of surprised that it hasn't happened, being that our former ex-president the orange tangerine has advocated violence against just about everybody, in his round-about way.

Not just one or two or so shootings at these places. Dozens of them so the sheer impact of the shootings will finally filter through these gun loving GOP representatives that some measures of gun control are needed, some measurable steps. I thought I saw some glimmer of hope the other week, when the shootings in TN seem to activate the governor into doing some things.

W/ over 300 million guns in this Country, I can't really imagine or fathom what would really work well in the short run, but in long run? It's a good start.

It'll take a while for any measures to work, IMHO. A true shame. They can take small meaningful steps, and start the ball rolling though...

[erronis]

9. The carnage is the feature, not a problem. It is intended to rip society apart.

If it takes offing a few high-level federal and state officials to wreak the most amount of havoc on the democratic system, then so be it.

The little people in congress don't know that they are being played by some much larger forces. Congress as much as it represents some level of representational government is not in the interests of the powerful. Reduced to a rubber-stamp Duma would be more like it.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

Applies to other things as well.

That is who we are.

[Irish_Dem]

5. It is exactly who we are. The worst moral collapse in the US in American history.

[onecaliberal]

6. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[ShazzieB]

7. "We're better than this" should be changed to

"We should be better than this" or "We need to become better than this."

[republianmushroom]

8. Yep the big lie, 'This is not who we are'

Yes, this is who we are. Gun crazy, life doesn't mean much after birth to death.

But, it mean everything from conception to birth.