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Title: Merchants of Death: Who is to Blame for America’s Mass Shootings?
Published: 2018-03-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlz76H-K5zQ
Title: Merchants of Death: Who is to Blame for America’s Mass Shootings?
Published: 2018-03-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlz76H-K5zQ
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We are a military culture, engaged in continuous warfare. We have been a nation at war for most of our existence in this country. We are a nation that makes a living, makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing, and the endless wars that we see happening. We are caught in a vicious cycle with alarming regularity the nation is being subjected to a spate of2/7
violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country's fragile ecosystem, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of, and this is always key, national security, without many objections from weed the people. Take the school shootings that took place at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day. Seventeen people, students and3/7
teachers alike were killed by Nicholas Cruz, a 19-year-old former student armed with a gas mask, smoke grenades, magazines of ammunition, and an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle. This shooting, which is being chalked up to Mill Illness by the 19-year-old assassin, came months after a series of mass shootings in late 2017, one at a church in Texas and the other at an outdoor concrete music concert in Las Vegas.4/7
In both of these, the Texas and Las Vegas attacks, the shooters were dressed like a soldier, or a military police officer, and, believe it or not, armed with military-style weapons. The long-gumming in Texas shooting, a former member of the Air Force, a military person, was dressed all in black wearing body armor, a tactical vest and a mask and firing an assault rifle. Do you see the5/7
similarities here? The similarities in uniform and tactics to the nation's police forces, the SWAT teams and the military? As usual, following one of these shootings, there is a massive, a vocal outcry for enacting more strident gun control measures across the country, more mental health checks, and heightened school security measures. Also, as usual, in the midst of all the finger pointing, no one is pointing a finger6/7
at the American police state or the war-drenched, violence imbued, profit-driven, military, industrial complex, both of which have made violence America's calling card. Ask yourself this, think about this, folks. Why do these mass shootings keep happening? Who are these shooters mulling themselves after? Think about that. Where are they finding their inspiration for their weaponry and their tactics? Who stands and techniques are they mirroring? This is how7/7
you acclimate a population to war. This is how you cultivate loyalty to a war machine. When things start to fall apart and implode as they seem to be doing lately, you have to wonder who stands to benefit from it. Think about that carefully. It's time to wake up America, get formed, get active, and stay in the battle. And tune in to Battlefield America on NewsBud.
