So here I am once again angry. Angry at the inability of a whole culture, a literate culture at that, to deal with facts. Guns dont kill people, people kill people is the comment, and yet there is not way any European, knowing fully well that we have 100 times fewer gun deaths than the US, will ever be convinced by the fatuous argumentation coming out of the mouths of pundits all over the US political spectrum. Naturally, I am not concerned about the conservatives. By now the word conservative, when dealing with US politics, is synonymous with two not necessarily contradictory notions: a) idiocy, b) hypocritical and highly immoral dedication to profiteering. What is thoroughly problematic is the response on the so-called left; the Democratic response. Or should I say, lack there of. There has been a loud silence on the democratic side. The party of the "reality based community" has entered as a result of its electoral strategy a period of numb silence on the issue of guns. Because Democrats need to win in the south and Montana or some other godforsaken place the Democratic party is increasingly falling under the spell of pro-life, pro-gun bible thumpers with a penchant for economic populism. OK I am being a populist myself here. Webb may be all that but he is eloquent and the closest you could get to a New Deal Democrat. It seems, however, that this will lead to the ultimate castration of the truly liberal North Eastern and Californian voices. Not that those really exist in the Democratic party. Ultimately the question is: how much will we sacrifice for class to re-enter the US political discourse. It seems that a lot is the answer. And it is not even guaranteed that the reintroduction will take place. So meanwhile prepare yourselves for more gun deaths and dumber responses to the problem and don't coun't on a health system to be there for support of the victims.