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America’s Death Cult Must Be Crushed, Not Compromised With
If your “freedom” costs the lives of school children, you’re paying too much. It’s time to defeat gun culture and its defenders
If those 19 kids gunned down in Uvalde had been in an amniotic sac rather than a classroom, perhaps Texas lawmakers would have done something to keep them safe.
But they were in fourth grade, having long since left their mothers’ wombs, so the rights of an 18-year-old to buy an assault rifle and hundreds of bullets took precedence over their right to life.
Because the right to possess weapons of death always takes precedence over the lives so casually erased by them.
Like those of ten shoppers, nine of them Black, gunned down in a racist terrorist attack in Buffalo last week.
Like the lives of roughly 45,000 people each year taken by gun violence (homicide, accidental death, or suicide).
If this is the price we pay for “freedom,” we’re paying too much.
Because there are plenty of nations every bit as free as ours, if not more so, where the tab is considerably smaller.
With a gun homicide rate 25 times higher than that of other affluent nations, either Americans are the worst, most violent people in the industrialized, high-income world, or we’re just incredibly stupid when it comes to our definition of liberty.
Either way, it’s time to renegotiate the bill.
But to even suggest such a thing will bring out the cries of tyranny from the same people who gladly trample women’s liberties in the name of embryonic and fetal life.
From the same people who care nothing for the equal protection rights of Black and brown folks, the religious liberties of anyone who isn’t Christian, or any rights at all for those who are LGBTQ.
Tyranny to them means having to wear a mask at Trader Joe’s and anything that limits their ability to possess as many weapons as they desire.
These are people more committed to death than life.
They would rather die or potentially kill others than be inconvenienced by public…
