Both American Gun Violence and American War Violence seem to be as American as apple pie. Both violences are legitimated as Constitutional. To fight and kill in war is an American patriotic duty.
American wars, American imperialism, American oppression began the moment British colonists invaded (colonized is the politically correct term) and began killing Indians and stealing their land.
Jefferson said America would not be like Europe---a land of "eternal wars," instead it would be a land of peace. But our bottomless greed led us to wars of conquest, expansionism, and imperialism.
American wars, even stupid ones, seem never to end; it appears mass gun violence will not end either. It is patriotic to own a gun; it is very profitable to make and sell guns. We are on an unstoppable merry-go-round of guns and violence. The Wild West is now the Wild U.S. America---the land of legal gunslingers. Duck!
Patriots and profits; guns and greed; ethnocentrism and expansionism; exceptionalism and evil; stupidity and arrogance. God bless America!
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