When Americans Start Speaking Through Violence
In a nation where frustration keeps escalating, too many are beginning to speak not with words, but with violence. Photo by Max Kleinen on Unsplash There was a time when a shooting at a clinic would have stopped the country cold. Now it enters the bloodstream for a day, maybe two, and then dissolves into the next outrage, the next clip, the next argument, the next bloodstain. That alone says something terrible about us. We are no longer dealing only with violence itself. We are dealing with repetition. We are dealing with familiarity. We are dealing with a society that has seen so much public aggression that even a gunman opening fire at a Veterans Affairs clinic can begin to feel like one more entry in a very American ledger. The incident in Jasper, Georgia should not be treated that way. A man opened fire at a VA clinic. A victim was airlifted. Officers shot and killed the suspect. Witnesses nearby heard the gunfire. One man at an...
