Another school shooting. Another dozen and more kids killed. And it won't matter.
We won't do anything to change our gun culture. We won't do anything to reduce it.
And I finally know why.
It helped to finally crystallize in my mind the insanity of gun violence by looking at the president and evangelicals. Evangelicals love Trump, despite the fact that he has the morality of a wolverine. It just came out that all the rumors are true and that he had an affair with a porn actress while his wife was pregnant with his youngest son. And they love him.
Yes, they love him because he gives them clear support to rail against abortion and to discriminate against gays. But it's more than that. They support him because to not support him is to admit that they were wrong. And they know they are wrong. They know he is a lecherous, troglodyte who probably has already had sex with his daughter Ivanka. They already know that they were so wrong about supporting him and his character. They know.
There is nothing more anathema to the American psyche than admitting we were wrong.
And that is the same with legislators and supporters of the NRA and gun rights. They know they are wrong. They know they are complicit in all this, but they've gone way beyond the tipping point.
For today, they would have to stand before TV cameras and admit they were wrong. And they can't do that. They would rather let bullets rip through the bodies of 15-year-old kids than admit they were wrong.
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