Stephan:   This very cogent and timely essay by The Washington Post, published on Friday 26 February has already been overtaken by events; a third massacre this week occurred just as I was publishing my SR essay and the Post was sending out theirs, this one in Washington state. Also there were multiple murders in Chicago. And that's just a partial list. Gun murders and woundings, often by individuals with legal guns, ostensibly the NRA's good guys, have become so common they don't even break into the news when they happen. To get national airtime in the U.S. a simple massacre murdering 4 or 5 people is not enough.  And I notice that a story on SR about Monsanto may get 7,500 views while one on a gun massacre only gets 250. We seem to have a collective cultural agreement not to talk about an epidemic of death which, if it were cause by a virus, would have people running around with their hair on fire, and the media broadcasting wall to wall coverage -- remember Ebola. Why is that do you think?