Welcome to America
I didn’t used to realize how absurd this country is. There are a lot of things that happen here that don’t happen in other places. Growing up, I thought it was normal.
But think about it: An ambulance ride will cost you $1,000. Police violence is frequent and unchecked. Taxes are exorbitantly low for the rich, creating a massive wealth gap. Most alarming of all is that any discontented, screwed-up white dude can buy a machine gun whenever he wants.
It’s the mass shootings that trouble me more than anything. If America can’t look itself in the mirror after some psychopath killed 21 people and 19 children in Uvalde, Texas, then America is too far gone. We have failed as a country, because there are clear and obvious policy solutions to the extremely troubling problem of people walking up to public places and gunning people down like it’s a war zone.
Those that have fought against reasonable gun laws deserve their own sliver of the responsibility for the horror that happened in that fourth-grade classroom. They are, and I can’t emphasize this enough, the problem.
I’ve come to believe that America has a higher share of idiots than the rest of the world. There is no other explanation for gun laws being so relaxed. It is somehow politically impossible to take weapons of mass destruction off the streets, even from the political party that…