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Perhaps unintentionally, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said something smart on the Senate floor last week. Appearing flabbergasted by news of the recent spate of shootings in which seemingly understandable circumstances resulted in the use of lethal force â including one in which a 16-year-old boy who knocked on the wrong door was shot in Missouri and another in which two teenage cheerleaders who mistakenly approached the wrong car were shot in Texas â Murphy asked an oft-overlooked question in mass shooting discourse:
We need to ask some deeper questions about why people in America are just so unhappy and so alone that they would resort to violence this regularly and this casually.
For proponents of a political ideology that professes abiding concern for solving âroot problems,â Democratsâ fixation on guns and guns alone to solve the mass shooting epidemic has been curious. âItâs the guns,â they tweet reflexively to the news of shootings as if our politicians could magically wave away the 400 million guns circulating the U.S. if only they possessed the political will. And while certain reforms in the sale of firearms would indeed slow down would-be mass murderers, such as universal background checks and red flag laws, they wouldnât address the most fundamental issue of the mass shooting epidemic: that our culture consistently pumps out maniacs willing to die in a demented orgy of indiscriminate murder.
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