Well the flags that the gun lobby wrap themselves in are at
half mast.
So that’s all right then.
America. You have a top down hierarchical society that has
been conditioned by those at the top to believe the best way to deal with those
who you don’t get on with is to gun them down.
A society totally controlled by corporations that tell you that freedom
is their right to profit out of poverty, misery and death.
Profit boosting collateral from Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/Newtown/Dunblane.
The message that guns are good (which is the message the American
Govt and the pro gun lobby promote with their billions of pounds of media
access) and that people can unquestioningly wipe other people out as collateral,
added to capitalist alienation is not a good mix.
Murdoch has tweeted his distaste for American gun
culture. Let’s see how NRA loving Fox
News plays it in the coming weeks.
Capitalism needs kicked out, but that isn’t going to happen
soon - so alienation in the foremost, unequal , bleakly and starkly capitalist
nation is only going to become deeper. This isn’t defeatism. Socialism is a long
term project. I see few seeds or spark of revolution within the US nor the newly emerging international capitalist
states, at least in the short to medium term.
To ensure the safety of children in schools, YOUR society
needs to adopt a reform.
In our capitalist sticking plaster world, guns need to be
controlled. Even the Irish paramilitaries acknowledge that. Those who once
believed in the democratising handing out of weaponry amongst a “politicised”
population took the step of “decommissioning” their weapons. And Americans supported this; even those who
had previously supported the Republican/ Socialist republican armed groups. Yet some of the same people seem to feel that
relying on Walmart and big corporations to hand out AK47’s is ok.
As Michael Moore pointed out, in China the other day, a man
ran amok in a classroom with a knife resulting in NO fatalities. We aren’t
going to stop people with mental illness or symptoms of isolation/alienation
from doing horrible things. But shouldn’t we as a society control their access
to mass murder machines?
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