Funerals & Finger-Pointing

Although I am a big advocate of "mourning first and pointing fingers later," I can't help but to get caught up in the drama of both factions.  One faction is offering more strict gun laws as a solution.  The other faction is offering "thoughts and prayers."  It sucks that politics is overshadowing a great tragedy but that's the American way.  Every bad thing that happens is the fault of people who don't vote the same way you do.  I'm done mourning so let me start my rant.

A special word to the folks bringing up the Book of Genesis and the fact that God banished Cain for killing Abel, not the rock:  I am pretty damn sure the Uvalde death toll would have been slightly lower if that lunatic walked in there with a rock instead of an AR-15.  Please don't quote a book that was written before guns were invented.  The parents of the deceased children (some of them are devoted Catholics) don't want to hear that shit.  What good is banishing a killer that's already dead?

A special word to the folks saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun:  What happens between the time the bad guy starts shooting and the good guy starts shooting back?  A proactive bad guy has an advantage of the reactive good guy.  The good guys with guns waited a good 45 minutes before shooting back.  The good guy with a gun in Buffalo is dead.  Why aren't we offering "thoughts and prayers" to police officers who are killed by their own service weapons?

A special word to the folks mentioning that we did not ban planes after 9/11.  A group of radicals got access to a plane and killed thousands.  The key word is access! As a result, law abiding citizens have to ditch their shampoo and receive rectal exams before getting on a flight for the last two decades.  Since then there hasn't been that many planes intentionally flying into buildings.

Three things are needed in a mass shooting:

1. A Killer

2. A Gun

3. Bullets

Without a killer a gun is useless.  Without bullets a gun is useless.  Do you see the common factor here?  If the killer never existed, the tragedy never would have happened.  If the killer walked into the school with a gun with no bullets, he would have gotten his ass kicked.  

Please don't assume that I am anti-gun.  I am a proud owner of a Remington 870 pump action shotgun, I just don't have this desire to casually carry it into an Applebees.  Not only do I have a house to protect but I have two daughters who will eventually bring by boyfriends that I will need to intimidate.  However there is a difference between people like me and people that think that the addition of more guns is a solution to gun violence.  

Since I have mocked the people comparing guns to rocks and airplanes, I'll go ahead and make a comparison and feel free to mock me:  Opioid overdoses are a problem because the wrong folks are getting ahold of them.  Opioids do not need to be outlawed, they need to be controlled.  Mass shootings are a problem because the wrong folks are getting ahold of guns.  Guns do not need to be outlawed, they need to be controlled.  

Don't get me started on comparing abortions to school shootings.  

Yes, if a criminal wants to get a gun, they'll get one anyway off the street.  There is nothing wrong with suggesting that the seller of the weapon to a criminal should face a harsher punishment compared to someone peddling opioids.  There is nothing wrong into making sure the person you are selling a gun to isn't a deranged psychopath *cough...background checks...cough*.  There is nothing wrong with holding parents accountable when they provide their minor children with rifles and someone dies as a result *cough...Kyle Rittenhouse...cough*.  

Wouldn't it be ironic if there was a mass shooting at the NRA convention???

Taking a step in the right direction is better than not taking any steps at all.

Archaic Patriots

I would like to target the people that scream at the top of their lungs about black-on-black crime only when a white person commits a mass shooting.  Black on black crime is one thing; a terrible thing. A dude that wakes up in the morning with the intent to kill people of a certain skin tone is another.  It is easy to assume that if a black man kills another it is not over a race war. This is the reason why we distinguish hate crimes from other crimes.  Hate crime is very preventable.

When does a "Patriot" become a "mentally disturbed individual"?  When they commit a mass shooting, that's when!  When does a Patriot concerned about being "replaced" become abandoned by the folks that pedal "replacement theory"?  When they commit a mass shooting, that's when!  If You have to officially announce that you only want to kill people outside your race to be designated a racist, then we have a problem.  

Keep in mind that I went to school with folks that felt like they were being replaced the second month of every year whenever Black History Month was celebrated and when the BET channel was first announced.  They lost their minds when they had to sacrifice one of their 12 months and one of their 50 channels (it was the 90's) on something that wasn't catered to them.  

They did not know how to react to few of the females of their "ilk" being enamored by men that weren't white; they felt they were being replaced.  I am still dealing with a few "part-time Christians" that don't have a problem with interracial marriage but don't want their children to be exposed to a successful functioning interracial family.  I guess no one is racist until different color branches threaten to grow on their family tree.  

Isn't weird how certain "Patriots" didn't come out of the woodwork until a certain individual started kneeling during the anthem?  It's not what they were doing that pissed of the Patriots, it was why they were doing it.  "I'm not a Racist, I am a Patriot" needs to the be the new bumper sticker for the folks hanging truck nuts on the back of their car.

*The ancestors of some of the folks freaking out about being replaced were replacers themselves.  

*Technically, in the future, the Buffalo mass shooting can't be discussed in schools because it would be considered Critical Race Theory.

*I wonder if a certain demographic take comfort in knowing that they can do whatever they want because the local authorities will most likely take them in alive.

We must highlight the divide between Patriots and Bigots.  You can't embrace America if you don't embrace Americans.  I'm am sure there were plenty of "Patriots" that felt like their votes were being replaced when they stormed the capital.  These Patriots only like certain Americans under certain conditions.  They are not going to be replaced, they are just going out of style.  

Marjorie Failure Green & Frat Gaetz

What better way to sum up the southeastern corner of our Democratic Republic with the new generation of headline makers pretending to be politicians?  If you are on TMZ more than C-SPAN, there is a good chance you are in Washington D.C. for all of the wrong reasons.  Marjorie Taylor Greene takes the gold and Matt Gaetz takes the silver in the Dumbass Politician Olympics.  We'll talk about the bronze winner in the Tar Heel state, Madison Cawthorne, some other time.  

I am not one of those folks that accuses everyone who disagrees with me of being a racist.  I'm picking a fight with one of those folks that accuses everyone who disagrees with them as a pedophile.  I would like to address the folks with the "my way or the highway" mentality.  This whole I didn't vote for that person, so everything they say is false mantra is getting old.

Georgia's Greene and Florida's Gaetz are folks stuck between a constitutional rock and a hard place made up of dumb-ass constituents.  The passions of the misinformed aunts and bigoted uncles are bleeding into congress primarily because their votes are worth the same as...well...smart people's votes.  If you have to cater to the uninformed, you in-turn have to pretend to be uninformed.  If a substantial portion of your voters are members of the Klan, guess what you have to pretend to be like???

True; on the left "The Squad" has made headlines with their progressive comments, initiatives, and ideas, but have they made themselves ineligible to run for office while doing so?  There is a group of unsophisticated individuals that think they can bring down a sitting president based on his son's transactions.  These individuals are probably still looking for Obama's birth certificate.  Their fingernails are nonexistent because of scraping the bottom of the barrell.  

When you are called to the carpet and you have to pretend to be less-informed than you actually are, you are guilty.  We live in a day and age where it is more difficult to lie and deny shit because everything is being recorded, archived and analized.  Sure, delete the tweet...people still can take screenshots.  MGT can NEVER complain about being harassed and stalked because she is on record of harassing and stalking people she has disagreed with in the past.

Georgia is a beautiful and diverse State.  It has is swaths of conservative rural territories and deposits of liberal urban ideologies in the pockets in this state where large cities exist.  MGT represents a group of folks that still think that the punishment for not complying with mask mandates is equivalent to being sent to a gas chamber for being Jewish and/or not supporting the Third Reich.  For every "defund the police" outlier, there is a "the election was stolen" skeptic.  The Frat Boy from Florida and the Klan Mom from Georgia are just pandering towards their unsophisticated base.  

I'm not saying that all Klan Members in Georgia and Florida are Marjorie "Failure" Greene and "Frat" Gaetz supporters, I'm just saying I don't think any of them have ever voted Democrat.