Understanding America’s Gun Fetish

As suggested here, the rest of the world thinks that the United States’ demand that it proliferate guns throughout its society qualifies us as completely insane.  Hard to deny that.

The real issue, of course, is that this conversation is not happening at the level of gun dealers, but between the National Rifle Association and our lawmaking bodies.  It’s not about a few thousand dollars; it’s about hundreds of billions of dollars.

And the results are the bullet-riddled bodies of our children, as if U.S. capitalism could possibly care.