The Insanity of the US Gun Violence Discussion

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Thoughts and prayers, commonsense gun laws, bipartisanship – same things, same words, all cliché to the point that they mean NOTHING. We have plenty of evidence telling us that none of this is going to make the differences we need.

"Thoughts and prayers" is gaslighting from the right and complicity from the left and neither thoughts nor prayers fix anything. Logic and honesty matter. The median in the country's commonsense appears to be somewhere around a double-digit IQ with no critical thinking skills and irrational fear of 'others' so it should not be our goal. And Mitch McConnell and his cult of domestic terrorists have made it clear that their goal is to NEVER reach bipartisanship on anything that the majority in this country support.

We are NOT having the national discussion we need to be having and we look like fools to the world.

When we talk about mental health being the problem while demonstrating that we are collectively insanely denying the obvious:

·         we are coddling the people who want to do us the most harm

·         we are entertaining liars who protect killers and the people who profit from death

we lose all credibility.

Let’s have a sane, reflective, ration, meaningful conversation on gun violence, the NRA (and how they keep tax-exempt status and any voice in this conversation) based on decades of evidence and experience on declaration of what we must and will do, whether both sides agree or do not. And then fight to protect the citizens of the United States of America from domestic terrorists, angry neighbors, abusive partners, attention seekers, and people who want to commit suicide-by-cop.