11-year-old boy fatally shot in Houston after 'ding dong ditch' doorbell-ringing prank, police say

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. So, once again,

U.S. gun culture changes a societal practice, standard or tradition. Kids can't be kids anymore. They can't go out and play at the things kids have always played. Every week or so in schol, they have to practice what to do in case another armed psychopat's fucked-up brain chemicals make him decide to go hunting for the most innocent, most vulnerable prey.

And, as always, we address protection from these armed psychopaths rather than the armed psychopaths themselves, bcause almost 250 years ago sone "smart" people threw a bone to some other "smart" people and made it the supreme law of the land that, basically, everybody who wants a gun can have one. And that supreme law has resisted all efforts to change a si gle word or even define key words such as "arms" and "militia," because there's a whole lot of money and power in keeping it exactly as written all those years ago.

I just can't accept that, but there's nothing I can do about it. Worse, there's nothing that 11-year-old's parents andrelatives can do about it, either.

I often see people on DU say this is our country; we run it. Let them tell that to the armed psychopaths and the people "in power" who don't do anything about them until after their psychopathy and their constitutionally untouchable arms have combined to murder children.