America 2020 Was 40 Years In the Making

We shouldn’t be so shocked that militant fascism has taken hold

After gun-related homicides hit their peak in 1993 at a little over 18,000, the United States saw 20 straight years of decline. Edging slightly higher from 2013 to 2017, the US since 2018 has seen the toll climb ever higher and higher. 2020, the lost year, the year of pandemic and ridiculous reasoning about rights, is on target to be a stellar year for gun-related deaths.

In this article, I will show how when the promise of social mobility vanishes, we Americans, who have more weapons than any other country in the world (universe, galaxy), increasingly take to guns to express ourselves, to represent the community and to, quite often, pull a trigger to express exasperation at the failure of our economic system.

David Hughes, president of GVPedia, a nonprofit that provides access to gun violence prevention research and data, writes that gun violence is more prevalent in states with lax gun-control laws and stand-your-ground laws (Gun violence rising).

393,347,000 guns are in the hands of American citizens. The population of the United States is 328,000,000. Gun ownership tends to be more prevalent in rural households as opposed to urban households. This does not necessarily mean that there are…