So I wake up today to another mass shooting in our republic. This time at a "Garlic Festival". There might be a surreal joke in there if the body count weren't so sad. Seems the shooter was insane, and heavily armed. He clipped his way through a security fence hissing, and cursing as he went. Witnesses said he was consumed with rage.
Rage over what?
Does it matter? There's all sort of fantasies lies, and conspiracies out there that could have sparked this. Like the one which said that Hillary was running a child slave sex business out of a pizza shop in D.C. Millions believed, and still believe this. One believed so much that he went there, and shot the place up.
This to free the kiddies chained up in the basement. Imagine his disappointment when he found the building had no basement. Btw there was a mass shooting in Brooklyn not far from me a few days ago. Made the international news.
It's summer it's very very hot people are generally nuts these days, and they seem to have military grade artillery handy. Yeah shit's going to happen. Anyone with a few AK-47's hanging around might do something final.
Don't misunderstand. I'm not arguing for any kind of gun control. Just the opposite. I say give all of us all the hardware we could want, and tons of ammo as well. Let's stop fucking around with raging tweets, and comments, and get this show on the road.
"America Gotterdammerung"
It just has such a nice sound to it. Let's just settle all those scores tie those loose ends, and pay those bills that history is calling us on. ...but in a nice way.
Oh wow! Fantastic post Sidney.
ReplyDeleteIt's the heat,...it's burned away the "nice".
ReplyDeleteMassacres - defined as violent deaths or injuries of four or more people per incident - are now a daily occurrence across the land. Of course the perps are always crazed loners; nothing to do with our way of life or national psychology, and all these incidents are so many unconnected dots. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.
ReplyDeleteWhen you mentioned a garlic festival, I wondered incredulously if that could mean the town I thought it might. Sure enough my guess proved correct: the self-declared garlic capitol of the world.
There's also an annual Ren Faire in that town. I don't think I'll be attending.
I wondered on FB what would happen if demographics other than poor paranoid demented white people were heavily armed.
ReplyDeleteI mean white people tend to be the mass murderers...then they tend to eat their victims. They're also the heavily armed insane mass shooters.
Blacks tend to be the "gangsta" drive by kings, and Hispanics provide the entire country with it's medications. Every group has it's job.
I was wondering what would it be like if other demographic were armed to the teeth.
Poets for example.
Mass shootings at open mic bars book signings or publisher's meetings? The butchery, and roasted consumption of hostile critics?
This is not altogether a bad idea btw.
I shudder to think what sculptors with AK-47s, and rocket launchers would do.
Time was when you gave sculptors dynamite and jackhammers you got Mount Rushmore. I wouldn't care to try my chances on them now though. They might blow the head off statue at the Lincoln Memorial and call it postmodernist deconstruction.
ReplyDeleteThe time has come for a postmodernist art police!
ReplyDeleteI thought we already had that.
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