Chief Justice John Roberts and his right-wing associates have blood on their hands

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Our grieving over the Orlando massacre will have little or no effect unless we mobilize our sorrows into rage that targets all of the political culprits. Americans must mobilize a take-no-prisoners political anger that overrides the usual lamentations and legalistic excuses from politicians in both parties.

Don’t just blame crazed bigots or foreign subversives. This slaughter was enabled by our own elected politicians, with an assist from the US Supreme Court. They should be the true target of our rage.

This is the dreadful reality that has led our country to its continuing sorrows. The government has failed to protect citizens from the random violence that is fast becoming a blood-soaked ritual. Politics has failed at every level — federal, state and local — and then politicians plead that they are helpless to prevent the slaughter. People must not accept that legalistic dodge.

If the United States can bomb other nations without a declaration of war, the United States can confiscate the high-powered military weapons that are routinely sold to the random madmen who are driven to violence by their own hateful political delusions.

We the people are confronted by a profound crisis of national security far more threatening than any of the far-flung wars the United States has engaged in the Middle East. I predict that if Washington will not act forcefully to halt the domestic violence, endangered citizens will feel compelled to take up their own self-defense.

The violence is a constitutional emergency subverting the civil order — a crisis the Supreme Court did not anticipate when it threw out the gun-control laws and rewrote the Second Amendment.

Chief Justice John Roberts has blood on his hands. So do his right-wing associates who defended the “gun rights” trumpeted by the National Rifle Association. If my accusation seems unfair, tell it to the scores of families whose innocents were murdered without a trial. There will be many more of these victims — you can count on it — so long as the Supreme Court puts guns beyond the reach of law.

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