The Real 'Right Wing Death Squad' Is the Cowardly Republican Party

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/right-wing-death-squad-allen-texas

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Karen Attiah: After the #Texas mall massacre, I witnessed a different sort of death

"I was witnessing in real time the variety of social deaths that don’t get captured in victim counts or statistics. How do you capture the social death of someone who will be forever traumatized by seeing children bleed out on a sidewalk? How do you capture the social injury to a child who is now too afraid to go to a mall to hang out with her friends? Or, if the Allen outlets close for good, the loss of a place for families to spend time together?

And is it not a type of social death for a young man to now be so distrustful of Texans that he would contemplate buying a gun? And being trained to potentially kill? If this were another country — say, Nigeria — we would call this an example of youth radicalization. In Texas, we call it 'freedom.'"

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