Here we are again

Here we are again. Race in America. Cops killing citizens. Citizens killing cops. Black/white. White/ black. The ugliness, pain and seeming hopelessness of racial hatred.

But take a step back. No other civilized, first world country worships and uses guns like America. NO other country of this kind has the rate of murder and suicides and accidental shootings that America does. None has the government impotent and cowardly to deal with gun violence. No other has the NRA.

Now take another step back. Violence is a language in America. It's the language of manliness, the language of bullies, the language of spousal abuse. And America is in love with violence. We love it in our movies and TV dramas. We love it in sports. It perverts the true nature of the military and of policing. This is where we must begin to make changes.

America has to look honestly at its false sense of moral superiority and face the issues that are eroding its core values.