Power to Self-Destruct: American Gun Violence and Mass Shootings

The world we have grown to know is a place where individual competition - wholesome or unwholesome - is prioritized over cooperation. This has driven us away from our natural design - the way our ancestral communities lived espousing egalitarianism plus fair sharing which was the order of their days.

Many of us grew up sequestered; that even the closest person on the estate contiguous to ours is perpetually a stranger. Gun violence is perpetrated not only by illegal, but legal possessors of...