Of John Holt and Neil Postman and Republican Doors

As Americans we can choose to love our children, or we can choose to keep worshipping guns. But obviously, we can’t do both.

Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and the entire Republican Party believe your child should attend school in a building like this.

The Republican Party answer to school massacres is to lock children up. They know this is the answer since they know that their pseudo US Supreme Court and their completely anti-popular will US Senate will never allow military murder machines to be locked away from civilian — even deranged civilian — hands. There’s simply too much right wing cash flowing into the pockets of Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Samuel Alito, Jeffrey Kavanaugh, and Clarence (oops! Ginni) Thomas.

So while in America three times the number of children die from gunfire each year as the number of kids killed so far in Russia’s (Rand Paul-backed) invasion of Ukraine, while American civilians own 72 times as many firearms as the best equipped military on earth, the rigged majority in US government wants schools to buy bulletproof doors and windows, big locks to keep kids trapped, and pay for armed security instead of mental health support.

A much smaller percentage of American homes have guns now than in 1973, and hunting has fallen by 2/3rds to an activity for just 11% of the nation, a small group of very dangerous people have turned the United States into an armed camp more dangerous than Yemen.

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, a nightmare but very rare intruder school shooting, we might want to lock the…