9 dead church-goers. This makes 14 times the shit got real enough for Obama to address the nation about gun violence. Over 100,000 gun-related deaths and injuries every year in USAmerica Inc. And we can't do one fucking thing about it?
What worries me most right now - given the color of the most prominently shown victims' skin lately - is that somebody must already be saying, "Nothing changes until rich white people start dying in large enough numbers".
The conventional wisdom is that Reagan signed gun control legislation when he recognized the need to placate his white majority Californians who were freaking out because the Black Panthers were walking around "their own" neighborhoods with weapons, and a few had decided to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights with a little open-carry demonstration in Sacramento. (Some of those good times from the 60s everybody seems so selectively nostalgic for)
Like the man said, history doesn't actually repeat itself, but it sure enough rhymes like a motherfucker.
What worries me most right now - given the color of the most prominently shown victims' skin lately - is that somebody must already be saying, "Nothing changes until rich white people start dying in large enough numbers".
The conventional wisdom is that Reagan signed gun control legislation when he recognized the need to placate his white majority Californians who were freaking out because the Black Panthers were walking around "their own" neighborhoods with weapons, and a few had decided to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights with a little open-carry demonstration in Sacramento. (Some of those good times from the 60s everybody seems so selectively nostalgic for)
Like the man said, history doesn't actually repeat itself, but it sure enough rhymes like a motherfucker.
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