The National Rifle Association is in deep trouble, and may be doomed to disappear. But that won't do much good, since it has converted the Republican Party into a right-wing extremist organization that encourages its followers to arm themselves to start a civil war.

The Onion reported, of the Texas school shooter: "We have reason to believe this wasn't a 'lone wolf' incident, but rather a coordinated attack carried out with the assistance of 535 individuals in the D.C. metropolitan area." However, that is an exaggeration: around half of those 535 members of Congress voted recently for gun control.

I support gun control, but we must keep in mind that other right-wing evils are far more deadly. Mass shootings are killing a couple of thousand Americans per year. Other killings with guns kill some tens of thousands, but half of them are suicides and that is not morally equivalent to murder.

Prohibiting abortions could directly kill tens of thousands of Americans per year in underground abortions. It will kill women who have miscarriages, by causing them to be denied treatment. I expect it will cause, in a less direct way, hundreds of thousands of premature deaths due to poverty caused by being compelled to have a baby.

Global heating will kill millions of Americans per year, later this century, as well as hundreds of millions in other countries. Between the food shortages, the floods, the fires, the pandemics, and the civil wars, few will escape unscathed.

Plutocracy, combined with the right-wing tactic scapegoating and distraction, is a major cause of those evils, and the root cause of the increase of poverty which also kills.

This is why I focus mainly on plutocracy, and gun control is not near the top of my list.

A more careful study of proposed small nuclear reactors concluded that they will produce much greater amounts of nuclear waste, in proportion to the energy they generate, than today's larger reactors.

The Reaganite ruination of the US gave us minority rule over a distracted, impoverished population that never learned how to think carefully or understand the system of government.

No wonder young people mostly despise the Republican Party.

*Wall Street-Funded Democrat PAC to Spend $1 Million in Bid to Unseat Tlaib.*

The strange structure of the US baby formula market tends to cause local shortages even when the total supply is sufficient.