David Frum: “Each different democracy makes some really extensive effort to stay weapons clear of bad folks, and perilous folks clear of weapons. For a few years—and particularly because the bloodbath at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Fundamental Faculty virtually a decade in the past—the USA has put an increasing number of weapons into an increasing number of fingers: 120 weapons in keeping with 100 folks on this nation.”
“The years of the pandemic were the years of the best gun gross sales in U.S. historical past: virtually 20 million weapons offered in 2020; every other 18.5 million offered in 2021. No wonder, the ones two years additionally witnessed a surge in gun violence: the impressive human butchery of our ordinary mass slaughters; the surge of one-on-one deadly illegal activity; the unceasing tragic toll of carelessness as American gun house owners harm and kill their family members and themselves.”
“Maximum folks are appalled. However now not sufficient folks are sufficiently appalled to forged our votes to halt it.”
