The millions of guns in circulation in the USA, the destroyed lives, the dead...
Which measures are implemented in the US about this problem ?
We all care! However, the gun lobby is powerfully funded and links up with the Evangelical movement and they join forces to vote against controlling guns, allowing abortions, limiting gay rights and so are stronger than the rest of us.
Blacks had their president, and after that sat on their hands, women had rights to abortions, so ignored hate of Hispanics, Jews supported the underdogs and so were excluded from "whiteness" and branded as "globalists". That is much more polite than saying "killers of God"!
We need to join together ALL THE TIME and stop pandering to Trump as he might support something we like today, but the future is grim for all of us if we have a fragmented society.
The "Right to Bare Arms" is really more important in the USA than the right to health care, pure water for our children or the survival of plants and animals!
but think about, folk believe in these things as religious tribal essentials that they think or existential. That is why folk are willing to die for their religious beliefs. It may seem illogical, but try having a public roast of a cow for a cookout in India or a pork barbecue in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem ands people would be killed in the service of the Supreme all merciful Deity!
Right to bear arms is one of those phases like
- "Women belong in the kitchen"
- "I must be called she and shower with the girls, because I say I'm a woman"
- "The Earth is just 5000 years old!"
- "God is male"
- "God blesses fighter bombers!"
- God as monkey, elephant, snake and figures, as Man with a surname and miracles, for a flair of credibility
- "Selective moral outrage" no abortions.............but one can carpet bomb Kurds or Houthi.
All these concepts can be argued. But advocates for and against are really just infected with an unsupportable cultural idea. Believers really are in serious bubbles of delusion!
Most of the above ideas are resistant to logical argument. however, for survival, Muslim immigrants to Europe are starting to concert to Christianity as folk did to Islam in the first places overrun by the Caliphates' armies over a millennium ago.
For most conditions, folk won't change their mind. However, if everyone who converted to belief in Buddha got 5 million US $ and would be free of illness, most of us would be\come Buddhists......and eat the Rohinga, if asked!
In the USA, we are not going to easily persuade folk to be tolerant and treasure each other's children as their own. but we can make alliances while clinging on to our cultural beliefs, despite being unsupported by logic. All for the greater good.
So, in the USA,
we need to make alliances of a progressive
social agenda, but support a capitalistic economy. The gun rights concept does not need to be abolished, but curtailed at least like the rights to drive cars....... but not as restrictive as getting a license to do brain surgery......with a gun or otherwise!
Asher