It’s money that stops America from coming to its senses
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I’ve said before that I’ve given up on change. There’s no way to reason with insanity.
Some pledge the Second Amendment and some push a ludicrous personal safety argument. But it’s money that stops America from coming to its senses. The power of the gun-lobby. There’s no way to reason with cash.
The only way anyone ever changes their mind from adamantly pro-gun to pro-regulation is if they’re personally affected and traumatised by an avoidable act of gun violence.
People need to run for their lives. They need family members to fall, or to witness bullets hitting flesh before they’ll change minds.
I’m always depressed by whoever comes out and says now isn’t the time to talk politics.
More than 30 people are murdered by guns every day in America, so if grief is any reason for politicians to bite their tongues we’d never be out of mourning.
Las Vegas might break the macabre record for mass death, but statistically the massacre amounted to a normal weekend.
There was one image in Las Vegas that oddly stayed with me. It wasn’t a body, or a Swat team, or survivors smeared with blood. It was a grim report from the casino floor inside the Mandalay Bay Resort.
The morning after the massacre, with survivors still staggering about the venue, a handful of lonely punters fed money into the slots. Yes indeed, some things never change.
Jack Tame is on NewstalkZB, Saturday, 9-noon.
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