Firearm Violence Is Inherently Political
I assume you’ve heard about the on-camera killing of a Virginia reporter and her cameraman this morning.
Supporters of the USA’s unusual and very bad gun control policies will inevitably tell us not to “politicize” the shooting. But firearm violence in the United States is inherently political. The are means, common in many other countries, that would almost certainly cause a substantial reduction in firearm deaths, both homicides and suicides. Continuing to do nothing in the face of this scale of unnecessary death is political. Some things should be politicized.
UPDATE: Longer version of the argument here.