The Wanderer

A woman and her child before the firing squad

Like the author of this piece reproduced by Gene Veith, I am not an American citizen.  Furthermore, I do not even live in America, so I am one step further removed from what he has to say.  One could also debate about the issues of collective guilt and shame.  Nevertheless, even excising the political context, the historical parallel which he draws surely needs to be taken into account by each one of us.  Before this is about politics, it is about the morality of mass murder.