From a Concert in Las Vegas to a Funeral in Yemen, We Must Stop Mass Murder

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From the article:

While Americans are mourning the mass shooting in Las Vegas that so tragically took the lives of over 50 concert-goers, people in Yemen will be marking the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that took the lives of over 140 people who were not at a concert, but a funeral. The Las Vegas carnage was a crime against humanity carried out by what seems to be a crazed lone wolf. The bombing of the funeral home in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, was a war crime carried out by a close US ally, Saudi Arabia, with the indispensable help of the United States. While we try to steer the domestic conversation to the need for gun control, we should also be seeking to end the massive flow of US weapons to Saudi Arabia that is wreaking such carnage. A new resolution in Congress, HR Resolution 81, would do just that.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/05/concert-las-vegas-funeral-yemen-we-must-stop-mass-murder


There is no difference in state directed mass murder versus individual mass murder, save that state mass murder is on a much larger scale. But the violence of the state is reflected in the individual violence. And that violence, and the willingness to tolerate that violence, is a defining feature of US society.

[Jake Stern]

1. Sit tight. Someone will find a way to justify the bombing.