How many more gun deaths must we suffer?

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ So an Army reservist slaughtered 18 people and injured another 13 with an assault rifle in Maine. What kind of death cargo cult keeps doing this to itself, week after week, month after month, year after year? Among the wounded…

+ 10-year-old Zoey Levesque on being hit in the leg while at a bowling alley during the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine: “I never thought I’d grow up and get a bullet in my leg. And it’s just like, why? Like, why do people do this?”

+ David Wallace-Wells: “The rate of gun homicides is 22 times higher in the US than the EU. Americans die much more often in car crashes, work accidents and fires. Our maternal mortality rate is three times as high. Our infant mortality rate is the highest in the rich world.”

+ Chuck Schumer on Maine shooting: “How many more gun deaths must we suffer before this country comes to its senses?