By Alyssa Rosenberg
Click here for the speeches to calm the crowds and ensure the gun manufacturers are protected and profits are still rolling in.(click here)
On the surface, contemporary America (click here) seems very distant from the world of Greek tragedy or the Toltec capital of Tula in 950 A.D. But our societies have something in common. We all practice child sacrifice.
The latest young victims of the ritual slaughter our culture permits are the 19 children shot to death inside their school in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday.
The massacre brings the total number of children killed in school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack to 185. That figure doesn’t account for all the other settings in which children have been the victims of mass gun violence. And it doesn’t include the 311,000 children who were injured in school shootings, witnessed their classmates and teachers being shot, or sought shelter in barricaded classrooms, bathrooms and closets.
Given the lack of action after these spasms of butchery, there is only one possible conclusion: We are willing to tolerate the murder of children. We accept events that will gravely wound the bodies and psyches of many others....
On the surface, contemporary America (click here) seems very distant from the world of Greek tragedy or the Toltec capital of Tula in 950 A.D. But our societies have something in common. We all practice child sacrifice.
The latest young victims of the ritual slaughter our culture permits are the 19 children shot to death inside their school in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday.
The massacre brings the total number of children killed in school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack to 185. That figure doesn’t account for all the other settings in which children have been the victims of mass gun violence. And it doesn’t include the 311,000 children who were injured in school shootings, witnessed their classmates and teachers being shot, or sought shelter in barricaded classrooms, bathrooms and closets.
Given the lack of action after these spasms of butchery, there is only one possible conclusion: We are willing to tolerate the murder of children. We accept events that will gravely wound the bodies and psyches of many others....
Boys watch as the body of 18-month-old Palestinian boy Eliyan al-Bashiti is carried during his funeral procession in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunes 08 May 2003. The toddler died yesterday hours after being shot in the neck, as Israeli forces guarding a Jewish settlement opened fire on a refugee camp in Khan Yunes, where the houses are riddled with bullet holes and scars from shell fire. The boy's death brought to 3,211 the number of people killed since the Palestinian uprising against occupation erupted in September 2000, including 2,421 Palestinians and 730 Israelis, according to an AFP count.
