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Terrorism.
This is beyond guns and racism alone. This is guns and racism put into action in a calculated way. Perhaps not yet fully-coordinated, but planned, organized and methodized.
We have written a lot about guns, a lot about racism. We are not going to write about that today. We don’t intend to single Bloomberg out here because many others are doing similar, but their headline “Twin Mass Shootings Turn U.S. Focus to Gun Control, Racism”, is just so enragingly misguided. Those remain problems. But we are so way past that now, and probably already were.
We’ve read many, many “who’s to blame?” articles and opinion pieces in the hours since the horrific, premeditated attack in El Paso, Texas, in which 20 people were killed, (and a later deadly attack on a crowd of people in Dayton, Ohio). And seen even more Tweets and posts from by people eager to tell us that this “isn’t really about X, it’s really about Y”. (For instance, isn’t really about mental health, it’s about guns. Or isn’t really about guns, it’s about mental health). All the same stuff we always read and see and hear after one of these increasingly frequent deadly attacks, and nothing ever gets done about.
We think this time it’s different, and so the conversation needs to be different. Because we do not…
