In contrast, it appears that many states have open season on humans who are born. In the South and Southwest, humans, including minors, who are raped and become pregnant must now bear the pregnancy to term, whether they want to or not, or be accused of murder. Meanwhile, assault weapons are readily available to everyone, it seems. The leading cause of death to American children is from firearms. And the GOP/NRA agenda is for everyone to be afraid and angry, and to have lethal weapons at their fingertips at all times.

Some GOP politicians who vote to cut spending on mental health, now descry the role of  mental illness in the ongoing epidemic of gun violence that is unique to the U.S. As a licensed clinical psychologist, I agree with them. We have politicians clearly suffering from psychological disorders of sociopathy, narcissism, and addiction to money and power, being elected to office by voters evidently suffering from delusion, paranoia, and impaired reasoning ability. Once elected to office, such politicians work to overthrow democracy, inflame hate, anger, and fear, and grant easy access to assault weapons.

It would help save lives of American children, and citizens of all ages, if more Americans would cease voting for narcissistic sociopaths and instead, would support politicians and legislation to ban citizen ownership and selling of assault weapons. Save the born.