If we want a more civil country, we must decide that all lives matter. I'm not sure that a majority of Americans believe that all lives matter. As a nation, we have never acted like all lives matter. The country has been built on violence both here and abroad. There was no golden age when civility for everyone ruled. Since I'm black, I can testify that civility has never been available to everyone in this country. Remember how Obama was treated. He experienced 8 years of incivility directed at him. So we elected the leader of the birther movement. There was nothing civil about that chain of events. If your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. The one tool everyone has easy access to is a gun. I don't think that is making us more civil. At the very least, we need more tools in our tool boxes.