Gun Apologists’ Excuses Lack Logic and Evidence
A mass shooting in Buffalo. Another racist massacre reminding us of the AME mass shooting in Charleston, SC.
Then another mass school shooting of elementary children in Texas. Reminding us of Sandy Hook.
Minutes after President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the cancer of mass and gun shootings in the US, another shooting.
The gun culture of violence and the willingness to simply live with that death and violence in the US has become a recurring and very dark part of the cultural parody that is the US: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
The Onion has run that story so often that after recent mass shootings, The Onion ran exclusively all these posts on their main page.
This is the US, this is who we are:
America exceptionalism is a gun, or more accurately, all guns for anyone and everyone all the time — regardless of the carnage in the wake of worshipping an antiquated Second Amendment instead of community values and community safety.
Republicans, libertarians, and conservatives double down after each massacre with a baffling and nearly comical barrage of blame for anything except guns.
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