'The Senate—with so many of its members in thrall to and funded by the gun lobby—will only posture, pray, hold a moment or two of silence—and then do virtually nothing.'
Gun worship is transcendent in the United States, with 400 million guns in circulation—more guns than people—and only cursory controls on who can buy or access them. Firearms are fetishized, celebrated and brandished throughout our society, delivering a devastating daily death toll unknown anywhere else in the world. This idolatry reveres above all else the semiautomatic AR-15, dubbed"America's rifle" by the NRA.
The teenage shooter arrived at the school about half an hour later, and, while 19 police officers reportedly hovered outside a classroom door for close to an hour, he methodically killed 19 children and two of their teachers. Zeneta Everhart of Buffalo also spoke. Her 21-year-old son Zaire Goodman worked at the Tops supermarket and was wounded there on May 14th, when a white supremacist shooter killed ten people, all of them African American."To the lawmakers who feel that we do not need stricter gun laws, let me paint a picture for you: My son Zaire has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg caused by an exploding bullet from an AR-15.
AR-15s have enthusiastic defenders among Senate Republicans. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy told Vice they're used for"killing feral pigs in the, whatever, the middle of Louisiana." South Dakota Senator John Thune said,"In my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and, you know, other types of varmints."
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