Opinion: A decade after Sandy Hook, the Texas school shooting shows the United States is still broken

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A decade after Sandy Hook, the Texas school shooting shows the United States is still broken

the historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, more than the dead in all the country’s wars. This cult of the gun primes the country for a descent into authoritarianism, she writes: “The scale and scope of gun violence in America doesn’t just desensitize us to violence. It also cheapens the value of life. It fosters political, social and psychological conditions that are propitious for autocracy.”, and it is number one in the world in terms of gun ownership.

Gun-rights lobbying nearly tripled the year after Sandy Hook and rose to a peak of nearly $16-million last year,the Open Secrets database. The National Rifle Association will hold its annual convention this weekend, and its speakers include one former president, Donald Trump, one current governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, and one Texas senator, Ted Cruz.

The number of senators holding the country “hostage” by refusing to pass legislation on background checks is 50, according to a fiery

 

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A decade from now it still will be broken...there is no will to fight the NRA

Americans love there guns.

I think we already knew that

Did you know that between April 2019 and March 2020 8500 Canadians died while awaiting healthcare? Sounds like there is brokenness everywhere, eh?

Why poke the U.S.A. When they need solutions? Crime is the issue, always has been. Crime with guns plays right into the lefts gun narrative. 9/11 & virus 2020 did not use any guns. Research how they were funded.

America is a shithole country. A failed state devoid of compassion,empathy and restraint. The American dream is a nightmare, the American empire has fallen. America is a shithole country, barbaric and cruel.

Still broken it’s more broken than ever. You got members of congress being investigated for child sex crimes and we got Trump who is clearly above the law and we got SenTedCruz promoting machine gun bacon

Conservative Party of Canada wants to get rid of gun control here!

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