toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
From February 2018:
Militarism at the heart of a violent culture
"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."
"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.
"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.
"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.
"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.
"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.
"It is a capitalist crisis."
A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.
Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.
D E E R O P D E A D
The solution to gun violence is in the violence and hate in people's souls to pick up guns just to harm others in the first place. And that comes from TWO THINGS:
- Socialism (progressivism) and
- Statism (secularism).