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Marxists advocate that the U. S. and other capitalist states: disarm their militaries and police. As for stated concerns about " how human life has been cheapened in U. S. society". Really??? Are we talking about the nation that committed genocide against the Native People and continue with harmful policies? Or the long history of slavery and Jim Crow and the racist policies and practices that continue? The government and private vigilantes who murdered union strikers wanting to have basic living needs, or killing radicals, the prison and injustice system, the awful housing conditions, the lack of quality education and health care and food. The large number of elderly having to choose between shelter, medicine and food - but can not have all three of. The U. S. government with the blood of countless numbers of people in many nations, for to benefit a capitalist quest for profits and power. The same U. S. government and society that harms millions of poor people who reside in the horrors and challenges in that U. S. Society they endure? From the prisons, to the convalescent homes, from environmental harmed localities to the lack of hope and destroying the lives of poor youth in both the cities and rural communities. The violence of racism, sexism, homophobia have been long a part of the U. S. - and accepted by many. I know of no working class leftist who does not understand and is affected by the ongoing violence of this society and nation. The Mandalay Hotel shooting reminds me of the U. S. helicopters shooting down below on the Vietnamese villagers. Those villagers had less resources than the mainly Trump supporters in Vegas who paid for their tickets to hear Country Western singers reflecting mainly Jesus Land - and when they want" to get naughty" in Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas - does not always just stay there. But the Vegas lifestyle reflects also the "U. S. Society of respect for life" of the haves and have nots. Consumerism, greed and I detect some brainwashing religion and not class politics, raised as "our nation and society's values". What should we expect from capitalism - with "losers and winners" Alienation - what a shock? Violence - who would have thought it would happen? Fucking priviliged liberals. Promote the disarming of police and ending their militarization, not joining the reactionary funded liberal "gun control groups", who want to disarm the populace but not the government repressive forces. Are wars, poverty, injustice "respecting life"? ________________________________ Well, the legality of assault rifles certainly didn't help. And if they legalize silencers, just imagine how many more would have been killed, since it would have taken that much longer to figure out where the shots were coming from. But in the end, it's not a matter of gun control legislation. It's a matter of how human life has been cheapened in US society, how violence is legitimatized, and most important the extreme level of unfocused anger and frustration. By the way, imagine what Trump would have been saying if it had been a black person accused of this crime. Or a Latino immigrant. Then we would not be hearing all the hypocrisy about "coming together"; we'd be hearing blanket denunciation of the entire black community or of all Latino immigrants. And if it had been a person with a Muslim last name? Oh my god! John. .<http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/causecollector%40msn.com> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
