Stephan:   I turned on the television today and once again, even before I heard anything, just looking at the image on the screen, I knew there had been another school shooting. This is the 18th such shooting in the first 45 days of 2o18. As I am listening now 17 were murdered and 15 are in hospital. In addition, of course, we don't want to forget the other 90 people today who died of gunfire. At the same time the United States congress is debating a universal concealed carry law that would allow anyone over 18, including people on the terrorist watch list to carry concealed weapons anywhere they like in the U.S. What I don't hear from anyone is outrage about the NRA, one of the truly evil organizations in the U.S.; nor do I hear any real discussion about what is so obviously wrong: There is something fundamentally wrong in America both about the gun laws and, even more important, the national culture that permits these events to occur every few days. We are a very sick country, almost every social outcome trend confirms that, and that sickness is destroying us as a nation because we will not stand up and be counted.