Beetle-finding partially funded by you…
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“The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily,” wrote Gary Wills after Sandy Hook in 2012. Still heartbreakingly, tragically true, only more so. Firearms are the leading cause of death of American children. This is a savage republic with more guns than people, a nation held hostage by roughly one quarter of the population. A terrorist minority that, in the same breath, claims to be “pro-life,” bans books in school libraries as dangerous, says public health measures are tyranny, and argues that there is nothing to be done about gun violence except having more guns, more useless police (38% of Uvalde TX’s city budget; pictures of their SWAT team on their Facebook), arming teachers, fire-trapping buildings with one door.
For Republicans, the price of “liberty” and “freedom,” as they narrowly define them, is quite simply the lives of children. And that calculus pays off, over and over again as they piously clasp their blood-soaked hands together and offer “thoughts & prayers.” “I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful,” said Senator Ted Cruz as he stomped away from a question about why such massacres are uniquely American. Cruz got 4,260,553 votes in 2018, 50.9% of Texas voters.
Backyard and Beyond 
Now that you mention them, the bugs are more noble than the politicians