It doesn’t matter how many people are slaughtered. It doesn’t even matter if they’re children, as they were in Texas yesterday. In America, the response to gun violence is nothing.
By David Sirota, Jacobin
There are no words. Even typing out this sentence feels ridiculous, pathetic, sickening.
What is there to say that hasn’t been uttered a million times before?
What can possibly be said when nineteen kids and a teacher are dead, days after another mass shooting, and another mass shooting before that, and another . . . and another?
What revelatory phrases or comments or “thoughts and prayers” can be uttered or tapped out on a keyboard or yelled into a microphone when we know from experience how this will almost certainly play out from here?
The massacre.
The press conferences updating the body count.
The official statements and tweets and Facebook posts and floor speeches expressing outrage.
Then more of the same.
The politicians heading to another National Rifle Association conference to scream about freedom.
Recent Posts
“The Blue Road To Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon On “How Corporate Democrats Paved The Way For Autocracy”
Take Action Now “If you don’t examine real history, then you’re in a cycle that repeats the same problems,” says Norman Solomon, director of…
Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?
Take Action Now If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?By…
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States In 2025
Take Action Now In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.By Sonali Kolhatkar,…
Trump Suggests US Bombed ‘Big Facility’ in Venezuela. No One Seems to Know What He’s Talking About
Take Action Now Administration officials have yet to provide any details about the supposed strike, which would mark a massive escalation in the…