Having lost all hope for people occupying the conspiracy world that controls the meeker minds within the extreme right wing, POLITUSIC would like to address the rest of the Republican Party about guns. In particular, the uniquely enabling republican approach to America’s problem with mass shootings, and how the GOP brain reacts to mass shootings in America (beyond offering “thoughts and prayers” and then attending a gun show the next weekend).
To understand why republicans react to mass shootings the way they do, you first need to know that a toddler lives across the street from me.
Watching this kid grow over the past two years – all the plastic wheeled devices, rowdy play dates and Baby Gap parades – I’ve noticed a common thread weaves through toddlers’ approach to problem solving: add more.
Honestly, if there is one common mode of thinking that all toddling humans share, I believe that’s it. When all else fails: add more. In context, this directive also appears to be distinctly republican: don’t reduce the thing that causes the problem, add more of the thing that causes the problem!
How republicans react to gun violence and mass shootings clearly falls in line with “add more” toddler logic. Thanks to the money and fear instilled in the republican brain by the NRA and their rabid base that measures freedom by the size of their arse-nal… collective republican thinking is toddler level at best.
Additionally, according to republican dogma having more of anything is always better: more money, more babies, more guns, more pollution. In Republicanland, more makes happy – that’s the problem of having an entire political party founded on individual gain: “more” is the only concept they understand.
True to ideological form, President Trump believes that to solve America’s gun problem we need more guns. And so once again, republicans say teachers should have guns in the classroom. A fanatical idea of More that will only make things worse.
“The only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” It looks good on a bumpersticker, but leaves out a vital point about the guys in question: most people are insecure morons who end up becoming trigger happy when uncomfortable, scared, or intimidated. And so… bumperstickers proudly displayed… Americans will continue to shoot one another until they finally come to their senses… which is going to be a very, very long time.
