Killed.

Editor,

I don't understand why so many Americans who don't need guns think they do. Seriously. People wind up getting shot in the USA for no reason simply because there are so many guns around, so many chances for something to go wrong.

I think the place to start on this is to tone down the political rhetoric-- not about guns specifically, but about everything -- and reign in fear-mongering media personalities who scare their listeners to death about people they do not even know, probably will never meet, and are actually very nice people (young black men).

The epidemic of guns in the USA is a symptom of the deliberate murder by political actors of American societal cohesion. The logical conclusion of divide-and-conquer politics is a heavily armed populace scared to death of each other and imaginary bogeymen.

"They're going to take your job. They're going to take your hard-earned money. They're going to tax your hard-earned money and give it to THEM. They're going to break into your house, steal your TV, rape you."

Guns fill the void when solidarity has been killed. Solidarity has been killed in the USA.

Re: "Fight on Guns Is Being Taken to State Ballots" (1/3/2015)