That they know we see through their lies. That we don’t let them hide behind empty rhetoric. It is critical that we state this truth clearly and repeatedly and loudly. But they do not care to do what must be done to stop the next gun massacre or the average of 321 people shot a day in the United States - including 42 murders and 65 suicides. These politicians offer platitudes and prayers and Bible verses. We hear about how good guys with guns will valiantly stop mass shootings, even though there have been good guys with guns at several mass shootings and they have not prevented these tragedies. When asked for solutions, Republicans talk about arming teachers and training them to defend their classrooms.
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With a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the continued reinvention of the Second Amendment will likely flourish, unchecked. Instead, these politicians talk about protecting our Second Amendment rights - and they have reimagined the Second Amendment as something that will accommodate whatever the gun lobby wants, rather than what the Constitution actually says. Gun violence is one of the problems with which they need not concern themselves because they believe these calamities will never affect them or their families. They want to luxuriate in the power they hold, where they never have to compromise, never have to confront their consciences or lack thereof, never have to face the consequences of their inaction. They want marginalized people to accept that the conditions of oppression are unalterable facts of life. When politicians talk about civility and public discourse, what they’re really saying is that they would prefer for people to remain silent in the face of injustice. The United States has become ungovernable not because of political differences or protest or a lack of civility but because this is a country unwilling to protect and care for its citizens - its women, its racial minorities and especially its children. If you want to talk about incivility, let us be clear about how deep those roots reach. It counted only three-fifths of the enslaved population when determining representation. The document that governs our lives effectively denied more than half of the population the right to vote. Incivility runs through the history of this country, founded on stolen land, built with the labor of stolen lives. We are told to stay calm and vote as an outlet for our anger. And if we dare to protest, if we dare to express our rage, if we dare to say enough, we are lectured about the importance of civility. All we can do is hope these bullets don’t hit our children or us. Time and again we are told, both implicitly and explicitly, that all we can do is endure this constancy of violence.
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These staggering numbers will not change one single thing. At least 19 children and two teachers are dead.
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The scale of death in Uvalde, Texas, is unfathomable. Adults, schoolchildren, concertgoers, nightclub revelers, grocery shoppers, teachers. And there is nothing more uncivilized than the political establishment’s inurement to the constancy of mass shootings in the United States: 60 deaths in Las Vegas, 49 deaths in Orlando, 26 deaths at Sandy Hook, 13 deaths in Columbine, 10 deaths in Buffalo.
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There is a cultural obsession nowadays with civility, with the idea that if everyone is mannered enough, any impasse or difference of opinion can be bridged.