If you live in the U.S. and watched television Sunday the 16th of May you know about the White supremacy mass murder in Buffalo, New York. What you may not know, since they have gotten very little coverage except locally is that those murders were just the beginning of what happened this weekend. So I have dedicated today's edition of SR entirely to the gun shootings and murders that happened in the United States this weekend, and I may not have gotten them all. Gun shootings and murders are so common they go largely unnoticed except locally.

In the United States, two trends have come together in such a way that gun violence has become the norm. The first is America's obsessive gun psychosis. There are more guns than people in the U.S. And there are more gun shops than grocery stores.

The second is the Republican Party's legitimization of what is called Replacement Theory. The core of White Supremacy is the belief that the White race has been responsible for most of the good things in human history: the great art, great science, and great thinking, and that Whites are inherently superior. You can hear Tucker Carlson talk about this almost any night of the week on the FOX propaganda network. The idea that Whites are being replaced by immigrants and people of color, be they Black, Hispanic, or Asian based on facts is factually absurd, but passionately believed by the MAGA world, which includes many Republican members of Congress.

As of March 2017, the Gallup Organization found that 42% of Americans “worry a great deal” about race relations, compared to only 17% three years earlier in 2014. And in 2022 the numbers are even greater. Why is this happening? Because somewhere between 2040 and 2045 we will become a majority-minority nation. For the first time in 500 years, since the beginning of the Age of Exploration in the 15th century, being born White will not automatically confer privilege.

To about a third of Whites, particularly White males this is an existentially threat and, when mixed with the largely White gun obsession it is creating almost daily terrorism and death, as the Buffalo killings, just the latest in a long list, make clear. It is absolutely essential that the House and the Senate not only remain in Democratic control, but that their majorities significantly increase because the Republicans not only won't do anything about reasonable gun control measures, or White supremacy, they are actively using both the gun obsession and Replacement Theory as main motivators of their voter base.

As long as Republicans are in power America is going to become an increasingly violent place in which to live.