America’s Deep Rut of Violence

Our culture is deeply rooted in guns and violence.  And, as a nation taken as a whole, we seem to have very little capacity to pull ourselves out.

Tomorrow, next year, and a decade from now, it appears that we’ll still be talking about police department units with astronomically high rates of complaints of unnecessary brutality, and how our Second Amendment provides our citizens the right to carry weapons of war.

There will be funerals for young black men, a few police going to prison, and numerous protest demonstrations.

The meme here suggests just how powerless and frustrated we are.

Of course, the “blue lives matter” people will be asking if we want police to stop thwarting crime.  No.  We want to them to stop executing innocent black men, especially via torture. God damn it.