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We Will Never Stop Gun Violence Because We Don’t Act Like A Nation
We act like 300 million individuals who only care about themselves.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a United States flag that was fully raised. At some point, they were lowered to half-staff and they just stayed that way. Every time we thought it was safe to raise them, something else horrible happened.
The level of apathy surrounding gun violence in America is mind-boggling. We look at the pictures of sobbing families who won’t be picking up their child from school except in a body bag, and we tsk-tsk and move on to a story about the Kardashians.
The ones who comment the loudest after every shooting tragedy are the idiots saying, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”
Actually, it’s people with guns who kill people, but why quibble.
The biggest problem with gun control in America is the fact that we don’t act like a nation.
Yes, we all think of ourselves as “Americans”, but each “America” is wildly different from the other depending on your race, gender, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic status.
In order for there to be consensus on gun control, we would have to put the greater good ahead of our own hyperinflated sense…
