Who else feels the same

[dreamnightwind]

109. Sadly, it's only one of MANY issues we need to focus on

and probably not the most urgent or important one. It's not that I'm diminishing its importance, it's that so many of other problems are incredibly important. But carry on with the gun issue, I support you in it, personally I think the climate issues and working to get our elected representatives and our regulatory systems free from corporate capture are much more urgent on a system-level

AFAIK, violent crime is not in any kind of rapid escalation, but climate issues and corporate capture problems are absolutely spiraling out of control and need tremendous energy from us to address, we're heading toward some truly disastrous tipping points, leading to gloabl environmental catastrophe and to oligarchy.. The corporate capture issue is a root issue, attacking it will enable many more reforms. Nothing will fix everything, we have to have many efforts on different issues.

I do applaud your concern about gun violence, it is nowhere near such a probem in other countries not named Somalia, or whatever example you want to go with.

Also I agree that I am sick of the prayers, hugs, the emotional exploitation aspect of it all by the media, the heroism stories, all empty of system analysis to get the roots of the problem and fix it.

Part of it is poverty, part of it is racism, part of it is our warrior mentality and militaristic culture, part of it is a large gun lobby, part of it is the lack of public funding of elections that encourages candidates and elected representatives to take money from groups like the NRA, and of course there's the cowboy frontier history we have that makes this country more receptive to gun ownership than most other places.

What do you see as the best place to attack this issue?