Shootings

A list was recently published of shootings at American schools. I have come to call it a List of Anguish. Each mass shooting is followed by an outpouring of anguish, grief and anger, a call to disarm (sic) - and then everybody goes back to the way things were.

Through my social media contacts, I discern a sharp division of opinion regarding the issue of guns in American society. Some feel more controls are necessary. Others hold the opposing view. It's not the guns, or their availability, that's at fault. There should be MORE guns, so you can all defend yourselves against the nutcases.

As long as that dichotomy, that delusional paranoia, exists in American society, this List of Anguish will only continue to grow. I cannot think of a way to resolve this. It's something that American society as a whole will have to address.

However, with institutions like the NRA in existence and people like Trump and Cruz taking its endorsements, I see no hope for the future.