Right, but don't expect the next mass shooting to catalyze people into demanding reasonable gun control. As usual the shooter, not the easy access to killing tools, will be demonized. Remember that Americans are great at looking at effects, pretty bad at considering causes. This is certainly true of climate change.
Right, but don't expect the next mass shooting to catalyze people into demanding reasonable gun control. As usual the shooter, not the easy access to killing tools, will be demonized. Remember that Americans are great at looking at effects, pretty bad at considering causes. This is certainly true of climate change.
But I'm not sure if a shooting is enough--they have become too common. Hitler's gang didn't burn the Reichstag down but they certainly knew how to take advantage of it, and sooner or later something else will excite people enough to let Trump's minions, along with a compliant press, stampede people. After all, look at how so many believed (and still do) Bush's obvious lies for the need to invade Iraq. Maybe the top MAGA folks will simply "encourage" a mentally ill man or woman to do something awful and then follow through on what that now deceased person did.
Right, but don't expect the next mass shooting to catalyze people into demanding reasonable gun control. As usual the shooter, not the easy access to killing tools, will be demonized. Remember that Americans are great at looking at effects, pretty bad at considering causes. This is certainly true of climate change.
But I'm not sure if a shooting is enough--they have become too common. Hitler's gang didn't burn the Reichstag down but they certainly knew how to take advantage of it, and sooner or later something else will excite people enough to let Trump's minions, along with a compliant press, stampede people. After all, look at how so many believed (and still do) Bush's obvious lies for the need to invade Iraq. Maybe the top MAGA folks will simply "encourage" a mentally ill man or woman to do something awful and then follow through on what that now deceased person did.
Dictator on Day 1.