Bigger Guns?
About six years ago, in a Southern herbalist class, I was talking with a police officer. We were on the subject of violence, escalation. I asked her, if there are Uzis on the street, is the answer really to get a bigger gun? She said yes. Just like that. Serious. She could not see another way. And if even the police see it this way, then who is doing the systemic thinking? That’s the crock. No one is. Everyone is stuck in self-protection. Or profit — sell the guns, sell the protection, sell the ideas, more regulation or less, doesn’t matter. There is always money in fear. And peace — well, peace just disappears in that economy. Schools now are a multimillion-dollar protection industry. Lockdown drills, bulletproof doors, security contracts. Churches too. Pastors boasting that their congregations have armed men ready during worship. The idea of “bigger guns” is not fringe anymore. It’s normal. And then Charlie Kirk died. I posted something to a small group of young people — s...