daily mass shootings
dumbfounded, distressed, it’s
cancer within us
For God’s sake, are we crazy?
In the face of history, of every line of philosophy, against the teaching of every religionist and seer and prophet the world has ever given us, we are still doing what our barbarous ancestors did when they came out of the caves and the woods!
Clarence Darrow, PLEA FOR LEOPOLD AND LOEB, 22 August 1924
Darrow was making a plea for Life in Prison over the Death Penalty.
What he would make of these public shootings, I cannot say, but I think I can come up with what he would say.
On the other hand, to take today’s newspaper back to 1924 and let Darrow read about these recent shootings, I am pretty sure he wouldn’t stop throwing up.
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