We don’t have problems that we can’t solve…together. That’s the truth. In WW2, a scrapy upstart of a country stepped into the largest war that the world had seen until then, and did what needed to be done. From the women working at home in factories to the rationing of food and gas, whatever needed to be done to fight a war that wasn’t even ours, we did. That’s the spirit of this great nation. When rocks land in our way, we move them.

Climate change is just another rock. Mass shootings…another. But we can’t seem to move them. Why? The answer is obvious: we’re not working together. There are people lying to us, lying to our friends, who want nothing more than to line their pockets or eke out a little bit of power. It’s sad that such people exist in the world, but what’s even more sad is that they are skilled liars, and have corrupted the minds of a lot of this nation’s good people. We can’t continue like this. We just can’t.

More mass shootings. More arguments about gun control laws. Does it matter? Let’s be real for a second. The United States 40% of all guns in the world, 4.25% of the world’s population. That means that if there was any truth at all to the “good guy with a gun” argument, the United States would be the safest country in the world with regards to gun violence. And yet, we aren’t. Okay, so let’s stop talking about that one, shall we?

Another honest moment. The Giffords project (giffords.org) tracks gun laws across the nation. They aren’t pushing gun laws to ban assault weapons on that website. We did an analysis comparing the gun law rating that Giffords discusses, and gun violence in particular states. The results are here, and it’s not surprising at all that the states with worse gun laws are the states with more deaths by gun violence, and these are also (shocker) states with more Republicans.

https://giffords.org/

https://www.rightandfreedom.com/blog/gun-deaths-in-the-united-states