Memorial Day has become an easy way of assuaging guilt for tolerating how often we as a nation send people to the meat grinder of war. Human beings and it seems, especially Americans, have a grand capacity for denial, forgetting and becoming desensitized to how violent our country is and to tolerating the wide distribution of weapons designed for only one thing - to kill. So we memorialize those who went to war, and we memorialize some who've been slaughtered by gun. And for most, that's it. We think we've done what was needed. We need action. We need people to go to the polls in droves to vote out all those who won't take a strong stance against violence and for creating a more humane society. Otherwise we are all culpable.
Memorial Day has become an easy way of assuaging guilt for tolerating how often we as a nation send people to the meat grinder of war. Human beings and it seems, especially Americans, have a grand capacity for denial, forgetting and becoming desensitized to how violent our country is and to tolerating the wide distribution of weapons designed for only one thing - to kill. So we memorialize those who went to war, and we memorialize some who've been slaughtered by gun. And for most, that's it. We think we've done what was needed. We need action. We need people to go to the polls in droves to vote out all those who won't take a strong stance against violence and for creating a more humane society. Otherwise we are all culpable.
I believe we need a massive march in Washington, at this.