The Republican Party is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval church. It fights science. It protects ignorance. Above all, it embraces a lunatic reading of the Second Amendment so that any nut can buy a weapon that can kill a maximum number of people in a minimum amount of time. El Paso, Dayton — at least 31 dead, many wounded, mountains of grief followed typically by the hollow oaths of politicians and the senseless redundancy of labeling an act of hate a hate crime. Oh, that'll stop the killing.
