Is there any difference between a maggot infestation and the NRA after a mass shooting?

[PatrickforO]

89. Here's what I think about the whole gun control controversy:

In science experiments, rats that are overcrowded and live in poor conditions tend to strike out viciously at each other. Rats that live in good conditions with plenty to eat and enough fresh water and some living space tend to live peacefully with each other.

If we look at the current inequality of wealth and income, the dramatic decline in the purchasing power of the middle class, people still victimized by insurance companies rationing their healthcare and big pharma soaking them for drugs that should be affordable, threats to Social Security, how college is increasingly out of reach for our children, the forever war, domestic spying, and the increasing number of environmental disasters, we see that Americans resemble these rats that are overcrowded and live in poor conditions.

I mean, think about it: most Americans have less than $10k in savings, are a paycheck away from actual hunger and are stressed out by low wages, maybe working more than one job, with no real economic security. Combine this with the current state of racist overreach by law enforcement, and you have some very unhappy 'rats.'

This unhappiness, this stress, is I believe the root cause of much of the gun violence. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for gun control, but if we remove these stressful conditions from the American people in general, it may do more than any gun control legislation to alleviate the increasingly serious problem of gun violence. It's happening every day now, pretty much, but many Americans, perhaps as many as 150 million, live in daily uncertainty and huge economic stress. A living hell.

So institute policies that alleviate this 'living hell' and maybe we will be more peaceful as a people. Funny, I think we have a candidate who is advocating these kinds of policies...