The United States' national story: wife-beater kills people

Ah, Denver, or Texas recently.   Or NYC.   Add them to the list.  This violence made my partner recall a paraphrase of the Margaret Atwood quote:   

“Men are afraid women will make fun of them.   Women are afraid men will kill them.”

Wife- and pet-beater kills people.   Feels kind of like slipping on an old shoe, doesn't it.   Indeed, it's the core US myth.  It’s our national story.

It isn't enough we have the bully who authorizes all U.S. bullies, Trump, mouthing off like a crybaby.   The rest of the world already recognizes that he's representative of our joint narrative.   Guy who can't keep a relationship going.  Gets angry.  Takes it out on the women closest to him first, then every one, randomly.  

We're going to let this pass too.   Mass Violence Incident 10, 850 (this is only the 2017 file we're reviewing so the numbers only go into the mid-five digits). Since violence against women (and animals) is protected, and these guys appears to be white, we'll ignore two facts:

• those who have been convicted of abusing women will kill hundreds of times more people than "terrorists."   Yet we're going to start another war within a few months--with some one (Donald hasn't thought that out yet) because of terrorists.   And condone the more violent abusers--our own armed citizens enabled by our sorely flawed Constitution.
• the largest source of death by gun violence is whoever has the gun.   Half of all gun related deaths are suicides.   Terrorism?   Less than 1%.   Closer to 0.1%.

Trump is going to take us into war within 90 days.   I'm certain of it.   It's what men like him do when they're frustrated and can't use their words.  Meanwhile, the U.S. is in open season.  Hurting women and animals and ourselves is a 365/24/7 opportunity in the United States.