This is honestly.

There's this onion article that came out originally after the school shooting in Sandy Hook.

Here was the headline.

No way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens. It's a smart and dark

joke and it's one that has the rare distinction of never getting stale. That onion

headline resurfaces every few months, sometimes every few weeks, even sometimes

every few days in America.

Tulsa, Buffalo, Yuvaldi, and then the regular reports of murders that come out every weekend

from cities like Philadelphia and Chicago.

Since the FBI started tracking the data, 20-20 marked the highest single-year increase in homicides in America.

Then in 2021 it went up again.

Over the last few years, the leading cause of death among children in America is now guns.

Like many debates in this country these days, it's tempting to paint each side in the gun debate as cartoonish.

One side clearly on the right side of history.

The other, not just wrong, but maybe even evil.

Here's the thing, Americans have the undeniable right to bear arms.

And we do.

The U.S. has more guns per capita than any other nation on earth,

and that number has only ticked up significantly lately.

Gun sales over the past two years have increased to their highest levels in U.S. history,

and many of those guns are being bought by first-time gun buyers, and they're from every demographic background.

Clearly, Americans of all stripes, for all different reasons, value this right.

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