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Julia Park Tracey's avatar

There is no such thing as a good guy with a gun. Only potential murderers, either in service of their own murderous gun fantasies or in service of a murderous state. It is literally that simple. -- truth.

I'm tired, too, of shit from a different angle -- easy gun access, which is how my son blew his head off. Rape culture, and moving through the world as a 3 TIME survivor of that shit. Being a woman. Being over 30, being over 50. Being invisible. Still being told to be quiet by my own parents. And yet, I'm white, middle class, money in the bank. So what do I have to whine about? Nothing, and everything. I appreciate your writing, every time.

Sending you love, my friend.

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Joe Rogoff's avatar

Charles Blow recently wrote that the only language he has left is rage. Seems to me that powerlessness in the face of injustice has - all over the world - been the source of what we like to call terrorism. That those who most revile the state of this nation are predominantly non-violent makes domestic revolution unlikely. But we get a taste of what happens when rage has to be expressed from those with the most at stake and the least to lose episodically. I don’t know where I’m going with this except to say that I share your feeling of futility and often daydream of actions that would purge my hopelessness

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