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Originally Posted by Phlip
We live in a world where a guy told NPR at the NRA Convention that a few dead children here and there were a necessary evil; basically the cost of doing business in order to keep the second amendment untouched. When the discourse is reduced to the murder of former fetuses (<-- see what I did there?), compromise is no more
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Aren't dead children a necessary evil of policing in the United States? A necessary evil of the drug war in the United States? A necessary evil of the low bar for entry to drive in the United States? A necessary evil of the paid healthcare system in the United States? A necessary evil of being the world police?
I'm being kinda flippant but still... that's the word of a single idiot at a convention run by a group that literally supported Reagan as a beacon of freedom
after he sent a letter supporting the assault weapon ban in 1994.
Dead children are a constant in American society. Infant mortality rates are rising here as they're falling in other industrialized nations. Children are less mentally well here than in other industrialized nations and kill themselves at a shocking rate now. We're still dealing with childhood poverty and hunger and obesity and food deserts and lack of access to equitable education at higher rates than our so-called equals on the world stage. We're in a backslide while they're strengthening.