Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Gun Violence in America: A Conversation with Graeme Wood (Episode #283)" video.

  1. I am listening to this vocast from a European country not yet invaded by an aggresive neighbor and wondering how things have gotten this crazy. In all truth, I live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev but in reality, no one is safe anymore or probably ever was. That being said, what you two guys are talking about matter-of-factly is appalling in every sense of the word and horrifying in how guns have come to be the equalizer in American society at an alarmingly increasing rate. It's obvious that from just a few days ago, an event not covered by mainstream media somehow got reported and we saw how a woman in I believe it was West Virginia saw a mass-shooting in real time and managed to pump 7 bullets into the guy before he could kill kids and family members at a birthday. The real sad, sick issue here is that apparently earlier in the day, someone at the birthday party had told the guy to slow down as there were kids playing or something to that extent. Now, let's just imagine this: the guy became so upset about being told to slow down that he found a way to get an AR rifle--he was an ex-con---and then went to where he could get a good view of the birthday party and started to open fire on innocent kids and family members at the festive event and miraculously a citizen bearing arms could stop the madman. This is where we have to wonder what has happened to the respect that was a solid feature of American society not so long ago. Why have people come to the point of being able to kill their fellow Americans like it was target practice? How can this be? Who could gun down innocent people for whatever reason knowing especially that an AR rifle's bullet travels with a velocity that literally blows organs apart and damages tissue beyond repair for trauma-surgeons? What has gone wrong with the democratic Republican experiment that has been the hallmark of democracies across the world? Well, the answer is simple. Guns are simply too easy to squeeze the trigger before one realizes he's done it and someone is bleeding and dying on the pavement. Most people sitting in jails and prisons across your beloved country are kicking themselves every waking hour because they regret over-reacting. Guns are temper-tantrum people's worst enemy, because the anger pulls the trigger before the mind thinks again. No solution in sight, but both of you seem to have figured out a way to survive.
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