So 9% of Americans fulfill the combination of being angry, impulsive, and having a gun. Nine percent doesn't sound like much, but within a population of 320 million, that's 28.8 million walking time-bombs all around us, with a steady trickle of them going off every day, injuring or killing themselves and/or those around them. I'm as numb to it as anyone else most of the time, but every once in a while there's this moment of clarity were it seems outright bizarre, as does the way in which it is practically written in stone in a constitutional and cultural sense that This Is The Way It Must Be. Nothing is forever, but when and how will it change?
So 9% of Americans fulfill the combination of being angry, impulsive, and having a gun. Nine percent doesn't sound like much, but within a population of 320 million, that's 28.8 million walking time-bombs all around us, with a steady trickle of them going off every day, injuring or killing themselves and/or those around them. I'm as numb to it as anyone else most of the time, but every once in a while there's this moment of clarity were it seems outright bizarre, as does the way in which it is practically written in stone in a constitutional and cultural sense that This Is The Way It Must Be. Nothing is forever, but when and how will it change?