GOP plunges us into Dark Age
By Richard Cohen
Columnist
August 5 at 4:00 PM
The Republican Party is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval church. It fights science. It protects ignorance. Above all, it embraces a lunatic reading of the Second Amendment so that any nut can buy a weapon that can kill a maximum number of people in a minimum amount of time. El Paso, Dayton — at least 31 dead, many wounded, mountains of grief followed typically by the hollow oaths of politicians and the senseless redundancy of labeling an act of hate a hate crime. Oh, that’ll stop the killing.
But more killing is coming. The dire future can be told in the numbers: 329 million Americans, nearly 400 million guns, some of them AR-this or AR-that, with special stocks that were developed for war but can be bought down the block or at the mall. Even if you cannot pass a background check, you can pass by the place where, illegally, you won’t need one. Cash will do just nicely.
This is largely the doing of an obdurately malicious Republican Party . . . and a scattering of Democrats. But it’s the GOP that has done the bidding of the National Rifle Association to prohibit the use of federal funds to even study the effects of gun violence. Many a medieval cleric would cheer such a ban. Knowledge is dangerous. It can challenge belief ...
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