There is a very big place in America for this type of behavior
It's who we have become, so expecting our politics to remain immune is a fantasy
Americans possess guns like no other country.
We are less than 5% of the world’s population and posses more than 40% o the world’s civilian-owned guns
Naturally, we have more guns per capita than anywhere else in the world: 89 guns per every 100 people. Second-place Yemen rings in with 55. Canada has 30.
Those are the lowest estimates I could find. Others are worse.
Canada is the closest comparable to America in political and social makeup: same basic spirit and ethos. But Canada just isn’t that into guns like we are and the guns laws there are far stronger. Thus, our death rate from guns is more than seven times that of Canada.
Death by gun is the leading killer of children in America today (nine kids die from guns on average every day).
Think about that for a minute.
And then there’s our daily dose of mass shootings with four of more victims. We now average 1-2 every single day. Those godawful numbers rose dramatically across the Trump administration and have remained high across the Biden administration.
Congress does next to nothing in response, and SCOTUS kills any restrictions legislators do come up with — anywhere in the country.
Everybody is in on the act.
As a nation, we simply choose to endure all this gun violence.
With the assassination attempt on Trump, we are now deluged with politicians’ rhetoric about how there’s “no place/room in America for this type of behavior.”
But, of course, there’s plenty of room. It’s how we choose to live: both the highest rate of gun ownership and the highest rate of gun-related homicides among developed countries.
It’s not shocking anymore. It’s not even a surprise anymore. It’s who we remain until we decide to change.
Until then, we should expect more political violence, which should only increase these absurd numbers all the more.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/12/15/our-moloch/