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You Don’t Deserve a Gun

Myron Clifton
7 min readMay 25, 2022

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In the latest dispatch from America’s gun-war on children and all citizens, an 18 year-old man shot and slaughtered nineteen children and three adults, including at least one teacher in Uvalde, Texas.

The murderer crashed his car near the school and officers engaged him but the good guys with guns were unable to prevent him from entering the school and unleashing America’s number one skill on those innocent kids and adults.

Just minutes after news of the latest killing hit the airwaves and social media, folk began taking up sides and pushing their viewpoint on guns, the GOP, NRA, and states like Texas that honor, worship, and push guns as much as they push their own basic brand of exceptionalism that is anything but exceptional. Was he white, Black, Christian, Muslim, an immigrant, white nationalist, or a gang member?

The school was shot up with military advanced weapons that so destroyed the children’s little bodies that officials needed to do DNA testing so they could confirm which mangled body-parts belongs to which grieving parent.

This latest mass murder is typically and uniquely American. There is nothing special about the event, the killer, or the…

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Myron Clifton
Myron Clifton

Written by Myron Clifton

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