No, the Gun Culture <em>Won’t</em> Always Win
After another mass shooting, this time in Virginia Beach, the world looks bleak. But hope is on the horizon.
Too many guns.
Too little hope.
After each succeeding gun massacre, a dull fatalism grips the American mind. The victims of such massacres are counted in the thousands; the victims of individual murder, of suicide, and of heartrending accident by now are counted in the tens of thousands. Yet action to save lives is vetoed again and again by an implacable minority who see gun ownership as integral to their identity.
Political realists have surrendered: Nothing can be done. The
