Dear America:
STOP IT!
Just fucking STOP IT.
I don't care why Salvador Ramos went off his nut. I don't care about his ethnic background. I don't care if he did post a photo of himself on social media wearing eye liner. I don't care what his politics were. What I do care about is on his 18th birthday he was able to walk into a gun store and legally buy two military grade weapons unsuitable for any sport, but wonderfully effective on a battle ground.
America doesn't have a society, or culture. Hell, we don't even have a civilization. The truth is this country is nothing more than an ongoing, never ending, prison riot.
And no one will stop it. In fact it is painfully obvious the republican party likes it this way. It's why so many of them voted for Trump. Trump openly embraced the chaos--just as despicable rubes like Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and so many others of that warped and violent cult do.
19 babies and two teachers are dead. Some of the victims of the Buffalo horror aren't even in the ground yet. And the GOP solution to this epidemic of murder and mayhem is to make it easier to buy guns--to buy more of them. Good God, this is like giving a drunk more whiskey to cure his alcoholism.
We have to do something. Ban the assault rifles. Or at least establish a universal background check. Close the gun show loopholes. Raise the legal age to buy a weapon to 21. Buy back the guns. Just do something.
The republicans say we don't need any more gun laws. Yeah, that's worked out real well for us hasn't it? Even Wyatt Earp knew the quick way to limit violence in Dodge City. He banned all guns within the city limits. Who knew ol' Wyatt was such a screaming liberal? One has to wonder what sort of reaction the current' GOP would have to his solution?
Detestable politicos like Ted Cruz and the talking heads on Fox want us to give the parents and grandparents in Uvalde time to grieve before we talk about political agendas. In other words they are pushing their agenda of doing nothing, while condemning those of us who want to do something. They are playing a delaying game, counting on the short attention span of Americans. Yes, yes, put it all off until the public moves onto another outrage--hope and pray everyone cools off and lets the whole dreadful act slide.
Well, everyone except the people in Uvalde, because, trust me Ted, parents and grandparents of murdered 10 year olds never stop grieving. Their lives have been shattered forever because bastards like you think this deadly shit is just part of the price of freedom.
Republicans and gun nuts everywhere can talk all they want, give me any excuse they can dream up, but they know, because of their inaction, they are culpable in this latest and all the previous mass shootings.
Tonight, like last night, I will pray for the victims and survivors of the massacre in Uvalde. I'll also pray that my God and the God of every decent person in the world, no matter what their faith, damns Ted Cruz and those like him to hell.
sic vita est
5-25-22
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We have a terrible all or nothing mindset in our country which has just about reached critical mass. Why are the NRA and similar groups so adamant against gun control? Gun control is not guns prohibited. Whether we like it or not, rules and regulations have to be written to address the outlier, extreme users/abusers of whatever the issue is. When airline hijacking became an issue in the early 1970s, what seemed to be extreme security measures had to be enacted. Did that mean airline travel was banned? No, it just meant that a bad situation had to be addressed. A bit of support from the Right on these hot button issues would help a lot, but I have no confidence we will see it.
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