The terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina is another, yet another, moment to re-post (again) this piece on American gun laws. The US Constitution has been twisted to justify a social plague. not unlike the way the Dred Scott decision tried to justify the expansion of slavery.
https://davidkeithlaw.wordpress.com/...
Firearms pose the #1 unregulated, untreated public health risk in the United States. Through murder and suicide, guns kill thousands more than will ever die of Ebola or most communicable conditions. Or for that matter, of foreign terrorism. Indeed, guns in the homeland have killed many more Americans than have been killed in the last few wars.
This issue will, and maybe it MUST, inevitably, tear the American body politic apart as surely as slavery did. For those of us who are not Americans, but who love and appreciate America so much, we can only hope that the U.S. will stop this plague of self-inflicted injury.
How many more coffins full of innocents need be buried? The NIH and other U.S. health organizations have to step up and address this. The time for mere tears is over.