Guns Again, Dammit!

This headline from Chicago reminds us of just how foolish the American gun culture is.
82 shot - 14 Fatally The police blame criminals who haven't been properly punished. I blame Americans who fear other Americans and pundits and the gun sellers who feed on that fear.

Several of these killings were "officer involved" with witnesses suggesting that some of them were police violence with people shot for being black. True or not, it reinforces my contention that many Americans including Policemen perpetrate the gun culture out of fear.

We fear those who look different or who come from someplace else. There is very little basis for these fears since we are all members of the same family - Homo Sapiens. I don't care who you are, where you come from or what you look like, the kind of fear that causes eighty-two shootings in a single weekend has to be irrational. If I was a conspiracy theorist I might blame the propagandists on the right who are happy to have the poor at each others throats - or even the manufacturers of pistols and assault rifles who pretend that we need protecting from each other and only their products of mass destruction will save us from those who are different.

Let's just remember we are all members of the human family and that your fear is not a reason to kill your family.