Let’s do a thought-experiment. We’ll start with a choose-your-own-adventure. Pick a mass-shooting event from recent U.S. history, but try to pick one where the shooter matches your personal demographics as closely as possible. As a white, male American of a similar age, I’ll pick James Holmes, the man who shot up the Colorado movie theater in 2012, killing a dozen people and wounding dozens of others. (I even support the right of individuals to own firearms, damning me even further.) I’ve never had any association with James Holmes, and living in a completely different state at the time,...
Collective Guilt is An Excuse for Mass Murder
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