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Together<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As President Biden often says:  \u201cWe are the United States of America and there is nothing, nothing<\/em> beyond our capacity if we do it together<\/em>.\u201d  But clearly there is one thing we cannot get together to accomplish.  We cannot, will not, have not; gotten together to protect our children from gun violence.  Gun violence is the number one cause of death for US children (1-19) today (Kaiser<\/a>).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not like there\u2019s an argument \u201cfor\u201d allowing children to die from guns.  But we are completely unable to muster the will to even attempt to solve the problem that allows (and I do mean intentionally allows) clearly mentally unstable people to blast their way through school doors and murder nine year-olds and adults.   Our leaders send \u201cheart-felt thoughts and prayers\u201d after the fact.  We lower our national flag to half-staff.  We talk about fortifying the schoolhouse doors, or providing more armed guards to  patrol the parking lots and halls.  But we never get to the core of the issue.  No other nation in the world has mass shootings like the United States.  In fact, no other nation in the world would tolerate it.  But we, the People of the United States, do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foundation of Fear<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Underlying the very foundation of the United States is a tradition of fear.  Franklin Roosevelt described it in his first inaugural speech:  \u201c\u2026<\/em>(N)ameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance<\/em>.\u201d  While Roosevelt was describing the economic impacts of the Great Depression, America has acted in fear from the very founding of our Nation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Constitution is based in fear.  Americans were afraid of a chief executive, and carefully circumscribed the powers of the President to keep him or her from being too dictatorial.  The Founders were desperately afraid of a standing Army that would take control.  So they only allowed the Congress to fund it for two years at a time.  Every general officer was specifically approved by the legislature (Article 1, Section 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small states were afraid of the democratic power of the large population states.  So the legislative powers were divided into a popularly elected House and a selected Senate where all states, large and small, were equal.  And all of the states were afraid of the powers they were ceding to the central government.  One way they \u201cbalanced\u201d that fear, was to call for the establishment of state \u201carmies\u201d, called militias (Article 1, Section 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The states of enslavement were desperately afraid that their immoral economic system might be restricted.  So they empowered slavery. They authored  the three-fifths compromise (Article I, Section 2), a specific ordinance demanding the return of runaway slaves (Article IV, Section 2), and a ban on restricting importation of slaves for twenty-two years (Article 1, Section 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear Enshrined<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And since that wasn\u2019t enough to satisfy some, the Bill of Rights were quickly added to the document.  Those Amendments protected the rights of people against the government.  The right to practice their religion, free speech, free press, assemble and ask the government for changes were defined in the First Amendment.  Rights in the judicial process were protected in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments.  Protection against the standing Army was listed in the Third Amendment.  And a right to have weapons was established in the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasonable Fear<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the edge of the new United States was a frontier fraught with dangers.  The new nation was imposing its authority on traditional Native American lands.  Not surprisingly, the resident tribes struck back against those incursions.  The settlers were fearful.  They could only look to themselves and their neighbors for protection, even the state capitals were too far away for immediate aid.  So every man had a rifle, a means to defend himself and his family against attack.  And most were organized into a militia, to respond to attack as rapidly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southern portion of the new nation was based on an enslavement economy.\u00a0\u00a0As the number of enslaved people grew, the slaveholders need for weapons to maintain control grew as well.\u00a0\u00a0When slaves ran away, armed patrols were sent out to return them for punishment.\u00a0\u00a0And when the enslaved rose up in revolt, the Southern militias were called out to put them down.\u00a0\u00a0Historians identify as many as 313 such revolts starting in 1739, even before the American Revolution (PBS<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0It shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that Southern men were better prepared for War in 1861; they\u2019d been practicing for generations.\u00a0\u00a0They were afraid of retribution from the people they enslaved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear of an over-arching government is as American as the Constitution.  So holding onto weapons and organizing against the government is as traditional as the Whiskey Rebellion or the shots fired at Fort Sumter, the Black Panther movement of the 1960\u2019s or the Branch-Davidians of the 1990\u2019s.  America is \u201call about\u201d guns:  guns and fear.  And that is what makes us different from most other nations in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That tradition of \u201cfear\u201d continues today.  the slave owners of the 1800\u2019s knew one way to assuage that fear is to hold onto guns.  Our politics today are built on fear.  We are afraid of \u201cthe cities, full of crime\u201d.  But murder per-capita is actually lower in the biggest cities.  Birmingham, Dayton, Baton Rouge and Memphis are in the top ten of murders.  Chicago is twenty-eighth, New York City and Los Angeles don\u2019t even make the top sixty (neither does Columbus, Ohio, CBS<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are afraid of \u201cthem\u201d.  Politicians build their careers on \u201cus versus them\u201d.  We see it in the culture politics of the far-right: \u201cthey\u201d are coming to, \u201c\u2026change your children, steal your religion, and take your jobs\u201d.  And America\u2019s traditional protection against things we fear:  guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course \u201cthey\u201d are coming for those guns as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We face a national crisis of murdered children.\u00a0\u00a0And we bring the baggage of a history of fear; fear assuaged by guns.\u00a0\u00a0The problem is this:\u00a0\u00a0if more guns could fix this problem, we\u2019d be the safest country in the world already.\u00a0\u00a0America is awash in guns, with 1.2 guns per person, almost twice as many as any other nation in the world.\u00a0\u00a0But we aren\u2019t safe; instead we are afraid.\u00a0\u00a0Afraid to send our children to school, to go to the city, to shop at the grocery.\u00a0\u00a0And what makes us afraid: those same guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s America\u2019s dilemma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass Shootings<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Guns and Sadness<\/a><\/td>10\/3\/17<\/td><\/tr>
A Teacher with a Gun<\/a><\/td>2\/23\/18<\/td><\/tr>
Don’t Change the Subject<\/a><\/td>3\/25\/18<\/td><\/tr>
Again<\/a><\/td>4\/15\/18<\/td><\/tr>
Staying Small<\/a><\/td>5\/3\/19<\/td><\/tr>
Saving Lives Is Not Politics<\/a><\/td>8\/4\/19<\/td><\/tr>
The Pain Becomes too Great<\/a><\/td>8\/5\/19<\/td><\/tr>
Who\u2019s Your Daddy<\/a><\/td>8\/21\/19<\/td><\/tr>
A Good Guy With a Gun<\/a><\/td>9\/1\/19<\/td><\/tr>
Rights and Guns<\/a><\/td>5\/17\/20<\/td><\/tr>
Pittsburgh<\/a><\/td>6\/17\/20<\/td><\/tr>
Our Choice<\/a><\/td>12\/1\/21<\/td><\/tr>
Toxic Mix<\/a><\/td>5\/16\/22<\/td><\/tr>
Apple Pie<\/a><\/td>5\/25\/22<\/td><\/tr>
Prairie Dogs<\/a><\/td>6\/9\/22<\/td><\/tr>
The Will to Do It<\/a><\/td>7\/6\/22<\/td><\/tr>
Hanging Together<\/a><\/td>8\/12\/22<\/td><\/tr>
Swatted<\/a><\/td>9\/23\/22<\/td><\/tr>
They Aren’t Pro-Life<\/a><\/td>9\/23\/22<\/td><\/tr>
Motive, Means, Opportunity<\/a><\/td>1\/25\/23<\/td><\/tr>
Accepted Losses<\/a><\/td>2\/14\/23<\/td><\/tr>
German Rights<\/a><\/td>3\/28\/23<\/td><\/tr>
Fear Itself<\/td>3\/30\/23<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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