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"From the movie theater to the shopping mall, inside a church and a synagogue,
through the grocery aisle and into the classroom, gun violence has invaded
every corner of American life. It is a social epidemic no vaccine can stem, a
crisis with no apparent end. Visual evidence of the carnage spills with numbing
frequency onto TV shows and floods the internet. Each new shooting brings the
lists of loved ones lost, the galleries of their smiling photos and the videos
of the police response. And each mass shooting brings another surge of national
outrage.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns became the
leading killer of children and teens in 2020, overtaking car crashes, drug
overdoses and disease for the first time in the nation’s history. Yet as the
one-year anniversary of the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas,
passes, nagging questions loom.
Why haven’t lawmakers acted with forceful correctives? What will it take to
regain a sense of safety? When will change happen? And how, exactly, did
America end up here?"
Via Doug Senko.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
