Member-only story
Why the USA Needs Even More Guns
If you can’t reform ’em, help ‘em be their own final solution
Before we delve into the issue of why the USA needs to arm its citizens far more heavily, a few empirical facts about the USA will help set the necessary context.
The USA has the world’s most expensive health care system yet delivers among the worst results. The USA has one of the least effective educational systems in the entire OECD: US citizens are far more ignorant than citizens of other OECD nations as well as being far more superstitious and therefore more religious. US citizens are far more sexually repressed than their European counterparts and US entertainment is the most violent in the world.
The USA also suffers from insane levels of gun violence yet its population and political system are both so dysfunctional that daily mass shootings have been entirely normalized and are seen by some sections of the economy as positively helpful in boosting advertising revenues. Everyone else mindlessly chants “thoughts and prayers” before returning to their latest must-watch streaming video series.
In other words, USA 1.0 has been a total failure.
What else do we know about the USA? We know that the Constitution is regarded as Holy Writ rather than being merely a best-effort compromise that was intended to be improved and…
