And a large part of the drivers towards auto regulation involved those fatalities reaching into middle class American life in a significant way. Similar patterns were shown with e.g. smoking.
-
-
Show this thread
-
But we have all these mass shootings now reaching into that segment of American life and... nothing. Like, people are motivated, sure. And the gun lobby is strong. But the car lobby and tobacco lobbies were strong, too.
Show this thread -
There’s an essay I talk about sometimes about school shootings and it posits that the issue from the shooter’s perspective isn’t a lack of a sense of right and wrong, but an apathy to it.
Show this thread -
I think we need to look at that framing from a cultural perspective, too. It’s not that there’s a lack of morality here. It’s that we, as a society, care less about dead people than we do about warrior fantasies that breed violence.
Show this thread -
And it makes it so much easier when they take their own life. “Welp, he was just sick! No cultural problems here!” We have an entire generation coming up for whom mass violence feels like an expectation, not an anomaly. When do we figure out that this is a problem?
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Since Sandy Hook, I have said that this is going to be just like the “Arab Spring” in Anbar Province, Iraq. The only reason that the local leadership got behind the US is that insurgents killed even more of their people than we did. It took everyone losing a family member 1/2
-
to make that happen. Same thing here. EVERY family will have to lose someone or be personally be disempowered like many conservatives were in Las Vegas before they get on board. It’s wasteful, pointless, and disgusting, but it is also the trajectory we are on. 2/2
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.