I was watching the evening news and it was noted that two people hurt in the Lafayette movie shooting had a go-fund-me account set up to help with their medical bills.
It struck me that in one simple story the fundamental failures of the US were revealed: It is a place where you can be gunned down indiscriminately by a mad-man who has the constitutional right to obtain his weapon, and where you must rely on the kindness and generosity of strangers to pay your medical bills incurred from the constitutionally protected mayhem.
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