Dear Dingo:
When I read about the backlash against Parkland teen activists, most commentators and pundits say the real problem is not guns, but that the "American culture has changed". As anyone who has studied American history could tell you--this does not make any sense.
Answer:
Aha! But to these ridiculous pundits, something has changed. See, in the good old days, random violence was perpetuated against lesser folk--that "obviously deserved it". Like Native Americans defending their lands, or blacks looking at white women. I assume these same pundits feel that massacres of whole Indian villages, lynchings and selling of slave children where simply part of a more gentile USA, the "great" America we aspire to. Ha!
Random violence against the innocent is an old American story. Sociopaths and people experiencing suicidal thoughts and/or revenge fantasies are not a modern creation either. What has changed is : GUNS now OUTNUMBER people in the United States.
And just like a park full of dog poop, sooner or later, someone is going to step in it.
