But Norman, here in the United States, ” … the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Yeah, I know there’s a whole other phrase in that sentence, but we just pretend that part’s not there.
Apparently, this is the price Americans are willing to pay to enact that last phrase.
I think the remark about our casualty rate suggesting a “civil war” fails to look at the casualties we suffered in our ACTUAL Civil War, where tens of thousands were sometimes lost in days. What we have is more like the casualties of an internal terrorist campaign, or maybe a nationwide gang war … a steady stream of daily losses, punctuated by more or less frequent outright massacres.
Life Elsewhere 
But Norman, here in the United States, ” … the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Yeah, I know there’s a whole other phrase in that sentence, but we just pretend that part’s not there.
Apparently, this is the price Americans are willing to pay to enact that last phrase.
I think the remark about our casualty rate suggesting a “civil war” fails to look at the casualties we suffered in our ACTUAL Civil War, where tens of thousands were sometimes lost in days. What we have is more like the casualties of an internal terrorist campaign, or maybe a nationwide gang war … a steady stream of daily losses, punctuated by more or less frequent outright massacres.
Don’t you feel better now?