This deadliness can and should be countered with non-violent gun control.
Growing up in Moscow in the 80s, anti-Semitism was an everyday background hum. There was occasional discrimination at school, in the workplace, and in the streets. My father, a straight-A student, aspired to become a doctor, but already at 17, was told: “Don’t even think about it—too many Jews here already.” From time to time, we would stay home because of vague rumors of impending pogroms.
What is this, indeed? We should not shirk calling this shooting what it is: terrorism. What the Poway shooter aimed for—more than the individual bodies—was to horrify people. Along with the gunman who opened fire on the congregants of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, he wrenched fear from out of the Jewish subconscious, the one punctuated with images of bloodied ancestors.
When I told him the news of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, he was shocked, immensely sad for days. For the first time since coming to the US, he did not feel safe in this country. The US is becoming one of those places, where you fly to for safety from sectarian butchery and meet your death. No one deserves to flee violence against an ethnic or religious group, only to be murdered by an American who had never met you before.
Much has been made of the technological context of the shooting. Like the Christchurch killer, and like the gunman in Pittsburgh, the Poway shooter drew his inspiration from message boards and began his rampage with a rambling post of his own. He spent time on the website 8chan, whose goal it is to radicalize anonymous posters to enact violence in the physical world.
In our times of polarized politics, terrorists like Earnest may try to manipulate us into further polarization. What is the opposite of the statement the gunman made with his attack?
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