Kevin Janson Neal was visibly mentally ill. Supposedly, he was not supposed to have weaponry. But this is fucked up America ruled by the NRA and he had them.
How can you remove deadly weaponry from someone like Neal when he is in possession? What cop or sheriff’s department wants to confront a situation like that?
And, very frankly, haven’t horrific mass shootings increased in frequency and ferocity since His Excellency El Trumpo took office?
Our culture has glamorized violence through novels, television, movies and video games. The spike in mass shootings over the last decade is a generational consequence of celebrating death more than life. America’s fascination with violence consciously and unconsciously affects many of us in different ways.
It starts out as innocent games of cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers. We send these same kids to schools that have canonized our nation’s most historic battlegrounds and immortalized the soldiers who fought and died on those sacred grounds. We have Civil War reenactments where we simulate the experience of being on some of America’s most deadly killing fields. For every person truly repulsed by depictions of violence there are throngs of people cancelling out their voices.
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Letter writers ask in vain:
Oct. 4 Letters: When will Congress end gun control insanity?
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Cowardly Congress? Owned by the NRA? The Twelfth of Never, that’s when.
And with the violence-loving Trump in command, such legislation will never move beyond his veto.