![]() Homelessness in San Francisco is out of control. Poverty in America is far, far worse and more visible than I ever remember it – parts of Los Angeles at the moment looks like they’re in the third world. On top of their disastrous gun laws, the US Supreme Court has just made another decision that is going to entrench America’s rapidly increasing poverty problem: overturning Roe vs Wade, which protected women’s right to abortion. It was so unremarkable, so commonplace that it barely made headlines. While I was there, a mass shooting happened just a few blocks from where I was staying some nutter went ballistic over a money dispute and ended up gunning down a bunch of hotel workers. It’s heartbreaking to watch it destroy itself.Īnother time, more recently, I was travelling in rural Mississippi, stunned by all the handwritten GLOCKS 4 SALE signs on the side of the road. As I was mushed cheek to cheek with the people next to me I thought, all it would take would be one idiot with a gun to fire into the air – they wouldn’t even need to shoot anyone – and we’d have a stampede. It was a peaceful gathering but it was gigantic – it was later estimated that there were 200,000 people in attendance. Once, I went to a huge rally led by the comedians Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert in the Washington Mall in 2010. There have been several times when I’ve been in the US where their out-of-control gun proliferation has really scared me. In plain terms, that means it’s just become even more likely that people you see anywhere in the country – in any state, including California, New York and Massachusetts – is carrying a gun.Īnd as an Australian – or as anyone who values being alive, really – that’s a really frightening thought. That truth became even more evident last week, when the Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that prevented its citizens needing a special licence to carry arms in the street. I'm rethinking travel to the USA in 2022.
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