American Gun Violence

From a deep operative -

What follows is a summation article responding to the continuing gun violence in America.

Bob Herbert links three of the recent multiple murders with some depth and personal observations.

NY Times: The American Way

For the most part, we pay no attention to this relentless carnage. The idea of doing something meaningful about the insane number of guns in circulation is a nonstarter. So what if eight kids are shot to death every day in America. So what if someone is killed by a gun every 17 minutes.

But all the expressions of horror at the violence and pity for the dead and those who loved them ring hollow in a society that is neither mature nor civilized enough to do anything about it.