Never thought I'd miss the creepy clowns...

Could we just go a day? Like, a day? I ask because there were three shootings in Milwaukee last night that injured twenty-one people, and then today a kid put on his tactical bullshit, grabbed his arsenal, drove to a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo and shot thirteen people, killing ten of them.

Better dust off the old basket full of puppies again.

It's also basically the GOP platform right
now. No, really, it is. I submit as evidence
everything Marjory Taylor Greene says.

Why did this eighteen year old do this? Huh? Yeah, didn't I mention? He's eighteen. Oh, and he's white so he was taken into custody rather than shot. Speaking of how white he is, he's also a white supremacist and today's shooting--which he live streamed on goddamn twitch, until they cut him off--was motivated by "Replacement Theory." If you haven't heard of it, prepare to need a shower. It's the assertion that white people are being squeezed out by non-white people and so they are therefore justified in their use of violence. Told you you'd need a shower.

I know it sounds naive, but if it's "guns
for everybody" versus "no guns," there's
only one scenario where nobody gets shot.

So what I'm saying, and really what most Americans are saying, is could we maybe have some, I don't know, reasonable gun control laws? Because this doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. And yeah, I know there's a war going on in Ukraine right now, but wars are their own lunacy. I'm talking about regular people who just own military-style gear. Like, it's totally normal for so many people to just have automatic weapons lying around the house. And that's whatever, I'm not talking about the majority of them that haven't gone on murder-sprees.

21st century automatic weapons would
have been like phasers to James Madison.

I am however talking about the ones who do. And how maybe some people's hobby isn't worth the daily death toll we have to endure. Like, holy shit, take up stamp collecting. Is that still around? Probably not, but then the need to protect ourselves from the possibility of a bear attack or British troops trying to reconquer the colonies has also been on the wane since the early nineteenth century so let's talk maybe reigning in this already questionable right to own whatever military-grade firearms James Madison absolutely didn't have in mind when he wrote the Second Amendment.

"What Americans want to know is who leaked my
misogynistic, fundamentally flawed opinion that's
going to strip half the country of a basic right."

-Justice Alito, deflecting

But hey, do you know what defiantly didn't contribute to today's violence? Women exercising body autonomy. Nor did trans kids. Or teachers acknowledging the existence of either LGBTQ+ people, or slavery. Which is weird, because that's what the Right has been working themselves into a rabid-foam nutty over the past few years. Nope, it's all Planned Parenthood, who leaked the Supreme Court draft and the zero cases of voter fraud that somehow justify making it harder for people to vote. Especially if they're not white--which, hey, do you suppose there's a connection here? 

It's almost like a bunch of people who see their power eroding under the shifting attitudes and ever increasing diversity of the nation are just pandering to their base in a desperate, flailing bid to stay relevant in a country that's moved on.

Remember back in 2016, before everything went to hell? 
You know, when the only thing we had to worry about was idiots
dressing up like creepy clowns and skulking around at night?