Le Monde writes "America 'Exceptional' at One 'Bloody' Thing: Mass Shootings"
The French paper makes clear where the blame lies: the Republicans.
Le Monde Editorial Says America 'Exceptional' at One 'Bloody' Thing: Mass Shootings
The French newspaper gave a searing indictment of the Republican Party's failure to back even modest gun control legislation in the United States, unmoved to act even after children are slaughtered.
ANDREA GERMANOS
May 25, 2022
An editorial published Wednesday by French daily newspaper Le Monde weighs in on the latest mass shooting in the U.S., pointing to America's familiar "cycle of despair" and directing specific blame at a Republican Party whose singular credo is "more and more guns."
Published hours after the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which a gunman shot dead 19 children and two teachers, the editorial states, "If there is any American exceptionalism, it is to tolerate the fact that schools in the United States are regularly transformed into bloody shooting ranges."
The editorial board referenced other mass shootings that occurred just this month, one at a Taiwanese church in California and another at a supermarket in New York, as evidence "America is killing itself" and that Republicans are "looking the other way, ideologically complicit in one tragedy after another."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/le-monde-editorial-says-america-exceptional-one-bloody-thing-mass-shootings
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IMO, many need a new area of interest.
‘Ameriguns’ Photo Series Reveals the Unique Culture of Guns in the USA
PETA Pixel, MAY 24, 2022
ANETE LUSINA
Traveling to every corner of the United States, photographer Gabriele Galimberti captured proud gun owners and the American tradition to bear arms for a documentary project, titled “The Ameriguns.”
Exploring Gun Culture Through Portraits
Galimberti is an award-winning Italian documentary photographer with numerous exhibitions, books, and projects under his belt. He also recently become a National Geographic photographer.
One of his latest projects, “The Ameriguns,” explores arms culture in the United States, which houses half of the privately owned, non-military purpose firearms in the world. The number of firearms even exceeds the number of the country’s population — 393 million firearms for 328 million people.
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https://petapixel.com/2022/05/24/ameriguns-photo-series-reveals-the-unique-culture-of-guns-in-the-usa/
Guns may or may not be objects of art, but they shouldn’t be objects of worship.
I may be misremembering ammosexuality.
If I hear that “American Exceptionalism” bullshit one more time, I’m going to puke.
Exceptional at rolling back 50 years of women’s rights over their own bodies.
Exceptional at silencing and harassing LGBTQ people.
Exceptional at racism.
Exceptional at the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Exceptional at gouging the middle class.
Exceptional at insane drug prices.
Exceptional at good health care out of the reach of a lot of people.
Exceptional at reinstating the death penalty.
Exceptional at supplying military grade weapons to any any idiot who wants one.
Sorry, my sick and tired is now sick and tired.
He used an orphaned baby, whose parents died in the El Paso White Power massacre, as a prop.
