Monday, May 21, 2018

Ignorance on a shocking scale

How we grew arrogant enough to believe we have the right to kill

In the aftermath of the Santa Fe High School shooting, Texas' lieutenant governor Dan Patrick blamed such attacks on gun owners who don't lock up their guns, and on the "design of schools" which have too many "entrances and exits".

While licensed gun holders should certainly take care to safely lock up their guns, that does not address the larger issue of gun ownership, nor does it address our US culture that, whether we admit it or not, has become desensitised to these mass shootings. Furthermore, blaming building design for this shooting is just one more way US officials are evading their very real responsibility to do more to stop such attacks

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/grew-arrogant-kill-180520180022502.html