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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

America’s Disease It Won’t Cure

Author:     Allan Lengel
Source:     tickle the wire
Publication Date:     14 February 2023
 Link: America’s Disease It Won’t Cure
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In Florida, in Texas, and in other Republican-controlled states governors and state legislatures are trying to reduce or eliminate gun regulations. They would like the regulations to allow even young children to carry canceled weapons, with no licensing or training. Basically, the Republican Party wants the number of mass murders by random shooters to go up in the United States. Do you live in a Red state? How do you feel about that?

America’s favorite mass murder weapon, the AR-15 assault rifle. Credit CNN

I was in Israel in November when two bombs went off at bus stops in Jerusalem, several miles from where I was renting an apartment for the month. Two people died and about 20 were injured. I happened to be in Haifa, about two hours away, when it happened. When I returned later that day, I got a call from a friend back home asking if I was OK.

I said yes, and what about you, I asked, referring to a shooting that had just occurred in Chesapeake, Va., in which a Walmart employee opened fire in the store, killing six.

He paused and said, “well, you’ve got a point.”

America needs to look in the mirror to see just how sick it is, how accepting it is of domestic terrorism by lone wolves, how in love it is with guns, how indifferent it has become to mass shootings, day after day after day.

Monday night, a 43-year-old gunman, Anthony McRae, opened fire on the Michigan State campus in […]

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