Shooting of the Day

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    Face it, in the US, we're an incredibly violent society.

    We incarcerate over 2 million people that for the most part have committed non-violent crimes, paying more per inmate than we do for educating our kids. We've been at war for over 10 years with no end in sight. We just went through one of the most and virulent and antagonizing elections in our history. We have extremely violent gangs in every state. One of our favorite past times is to watch football which leaves some men brain damaged or handicapped. We modify our food supply to maximize quantity and profit, all while minimizing any nutritional benefit. We allow our banking institutions to sell bad mortgages causing our markets to crash eliminating peoples retirements funds. People drive large SUVs not so much for their handeling, power and fuel efficiency, but to feel safer during the event of an accident. Damned the other person, at least I'm safe.

    We value and encourage people to be as wealthy as possible, all while our public education system is terrible, our minimum wages are lower than the cost of living, and middle class incomes have been stagnant for 30+ years. Our major highways are in disrepair, our air in some states is incredibly polluted. We love to drink, party, fight, and repeat. We prefer to let someone go bankrupt than to provide them with healthcare. We militarized our police force to the extent that we can't even protest peacefully or celebrate a home town sports team victory without hundreds of riot patrol and their non-deadly weapons, pepper spraying, rubber bulleting and corralling us back to our couches. The majority of the country is on some pain medication, or anti depressant which is clearly a symptom of a larger problem. If you have any kind of mental health issues, you better be able to afford your medications because if not then thats too bad for you and anyone you happen to lash out at. We are a society that for the most part does not give a shit about the other persons family, health, well-being, and education. Etc.. etc.. etc..

    I wouldn't mind seeing some stricter gun regulations regarding semi-automatic, specific bullets and assault rifles but frankly until we can address the level of disrespect we have for each other, then things are only going to get worse.

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