Thirty
thousand people die each year from gun violence, but we can’t regulate
guns, because the NRA believes absolutely anyone should be able to buy a
gun at any time.
Forty thousand people die on
roads and highways each year, but we have to be able to check our email and
text messages at all times.
Climate change is
destroying our planet, melting the polar ice caps, glaciers, etc., but
we can’t limit CO2 emissions because fossil fuel industries might
suffer, and we want to drive bigger SUVs.
Immigrants
bring fresh perspectives, leading to new ideas as well as cultural
expansiveness, but we can’t admit immigrants because a few completely
unrelated people committed violent acts.
Thousands
of people suffer and die each year from treatable conditions because of
inadequate access to health care, but we can’t provide for them because
millionaires and billionaires might have to kick in a few bucks in
taxes.
The President of the United States is mentally unbalanced, but the only people who can do anything about it, his political party, won’t do anything because it would be embarrassing.
That about right?
1 comment:
Right - an unfortunate homonym in this case ;)
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