when john mccain or donald trump or al gore or hillary clinton or whatever other politician or talking head goes on tv and threatens to bomb iran or iraq or whatever other country is disobeying american dictates this week in order to fuel endless expansionism, imperialism and genocide, that is a real, concrete expression of the roots of gun violence in your country.

we know the romans were barbaric. but, we don't ask why, because we know why - the romans could not have been the romans, any other way. they were a violent, warlike people that experienced aggression as a fundamental extension of who they were, as a civilization. so it is with america.

but, the country is completely blind to these truths. so it goes.