One person shooting many people is just the flip side of many people shooting one person [View all]

[Fumesucker]

I think probably the image that comes to mind the most to me is the truck of the wrong make and color that got shot up by trained professional police officers during the hunt for the LA cop killer. The two women who were delivering papers in the truck were amazingly fortunate to survive.



The fact is we live in a society where violence is not just acceptable but the preferred method of accomplishing all sorts of things. Our politicians laugh and claim credit when foreign leaders are assassinated by mobs, and that's the liberal ones.

Mass gun violence is a symptom of a broken society, focusing on gun control as the only solution implies that machete control would have prevented the mass killings in Rwanda. Focusing strictly on the symptom is a way of avoiding paying attention the cause, a vastly alienating society in which violence is accepted right at the top of of the social pyramid.

I'm reminded of an old Yakov Smirnoff joke, "In Soviet Russia was dog eat dog, in America is other way around."