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The Choice Is Simple: Greed And Death Or Sanity And Life
Why we don’t have the gun control we need
Every dark phase of history in the United States has been fueled by greed. Slavery was the obtaining of free labor, which enriched plantation owners and everyone else who profited from the cotton industry alone. Jim Crow laws were enacted when white people were afraid of losing influence and profit to newly freed slaves. Those laws contributed to many violent deaths of free Black citizens.
The booming economy of the Vietnam war era was largely due to the size and power of the military-industrial complex. Soldiers were the fodder for that machine, as slaves were the fodder for the antebellum south. An estimated 58,220 Americans died in Vietnam.
From 2006 to 2017, there have been 1,358 victims of mass shootings in the U.S., according to USA Today. Michael Bloomberg, of Everytown For Gun Safety, reports that from January 2009 July 2014, 57% of mass murders (four or more people dead) were due to domestic or family violence. There have been over 250 mass murders in the U.S. so far this year.
Where there is greed, there is always fodder. Follow the money, or follow the fodder, one will lead to the other. The NRA is currently under investigation (finally) for misuse of funds as a non-profit organization. Influential current and former…
