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Pardon my negativity
Jul. 6th, 2022 09:16The flags here are at half staff over the {insert the latest shooting here} shooting. I no longer care nor really follow the daily carnage.
It is a shit show that is not going to stop. To do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different outcome... well, you know the rest.
Let me repeat that last. This is not going to stop.
It is if Columbine started some kind of Stephen King freight train of an American bloodbath that continues to grow without any indication that it will do anything but get worse.
Only The Onion recognizes the reality that we face.
I was watching the NBC news with Lester 'tight coat' Holt yesterday. He was on site (a sure indication that this is important) interviewing witnesses and victims always looking for the crying mother. It is a paying circus that we allow. Thoughts and prayers.
As a country we are content to argue over whether the sky being blue is truth or a lie while behind us is an increasing number of unstable people with access to military firearms. I keep expecting to see a hand grenade or two in the mix. Soon enough.
There is no way to secure an area. We can hardly secure the capital of the country. All targets are soft in the right circumstances.
So we can either deal with the perpetrators by giving up some freedom and identifying them early or we can give up access to most arms.
I'm retired military and became fairly proficient with everything from a Mossberg shotgun to a .45 to a sniper rifle. But my life has moved on. I never developed the obsession, the fetish, stoked by the people who profit over them, that is so rampant in the country over firearms. Capitalism at it's best and worst on display in one action.
I'd love to see the 2nd amendment repealed and the 'right to bear arms' changed to 'the privilege to bear arms' but we've got to kill a few thousand more people before that is on the table.
Meanwhile, the lawyers may well be in the best position to make a change here. The politicians will not. The voters will not.
And, meanwhile, I'm not much interested in being in large groups of people.
It is a shit show that is not going to stop. To do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different outcome... well, you know the rest.
Let me repeat that last. This is not going to stop.
It is if Columbine started some kind of Stephen King freight train of an American bloodbath that continues to grow without any indication that it will do anything but get worse.
Only The Onion recognizes the reality that we face.
I was watching the NBC news with Lester 'tight coat' Holt yesterday. He was on site (a sure indication that this is important) interviewing witnesses and victims always looking for the crying mother. It is a paying circus that we allow. Thoughts and prayers.
As a country we are content to argue over whether the sky being blue is truth or a lie while behind us is an increasing number of unstable people with access to military firearms. I keep expecting to see a hand grenade or two in the mix. Soon enough.
There is no way to secure an area. We can hardly secure the capital of the country. All targets are soft in the right circumstances.
So we can either deal with the perpetrators by giving up some freedom and identifying them early or we can give up access to most arms.
I'm retired military and became fairly proficient with everything from a Mossberg shotgun to a .45 to a sniper rifle. But my life has moved on. I never developed the obsession, the fetish, stoked by the people who profit over them, that is so rampant in the country over firearms. Capitalism at it's best and worst on display in one action.
I'd love to see the 2nd amendment repealed and the 'right to bear arms' changed to 'the privilege to bear arms' but we've got to kill a few thousand more people before that is on the table.
Meanwhile, the lawyers may well be in the best position to make a change here. The politicians will not. The voters will not.
And, meanwhile, I'm not much interested in being in large groups of people.