Second Amendment

There have only been a couple of times in my own life where it felt as if a violent event produced a larger, cultural existential crisis. Perhaps more disturbingly, it seems as if there is virtually no level of violence, suffering, or death that is capable or generating such a crisis of imagination any longer. This is my attempt to explore the genesis of this paralysis not as a political or ideological problem, but as a cultural moral injury.

(That’s a lot of assholes…) Damn… this whole ‘China Zero Covid’ lockdown shit is whack! Imagine that! A totalitarian government locking up its citizens, separating children from families, and murdering family pets in the streets! Shits getting real over there, huh? Man, I’m glad nothing like that could ever happen in the US… And…

I started this article intending to cover the politics of not just one attack, but many. Isla Vista’s killings, the Tucson assassination attempt, and the El Paso Walmart shooting, to name a few. However, after noticing I had already done 2,000 words on Columbine’s run-down and motives without even skimming…

Crumbley II: parents laugh when child seeks help — When reports emerge of a teenager doing something reckless, careless or just stupid, my Republican friends are often the first to demand accountability from lazy or absent parents. These conservative friends don’t usually hesitate to decry moral failures when it comes to dysfunctional families and the awful actions of their…

While I understand the fears of Sandy Hook families, as I went to high school and college during the beginning of the Mass Shooting Era, I don’t believe that what they are doing will see a net positive for Americans. Specifically because it flies in the face of centuries old…