The crowd flees in terror as a sniper mows them down at a Las Vegas concert. |
When I heard early this morning that some sniper
named Stephen Paddock had shot 50 people to death at an open-air concert in
Vegas and wounded another 200, I was sure of only one thing: that Fox News would
already be huddled somewhere with the NRA, carefully crafting lies to broadcast
about the gun massacre.
I turned to CBS News, and watched the talking heads discussing
regulations to prevent such American mass shootings.
HOTEL regulations, of course.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
A child shoots up a local high school. A
gun-worshipping politician returns to Congress after being gunned down while
playing baseball. Some sniper gets himself all cozy on the 32nd floor,
killing 50 people and wounds another 200 at a country music concert.
Why, there’s nothing to see here, folks! Just
another typical week in America. None of this has anything to do with GUNS,
certainly!
The NRA will assure us, as it always does, that more
guns will solve the problem. But gee, it’s kind of hard to shoot back at a
sniper on the 32nd floor, isn’t it? Maybe the NRA will suggest all Americans
need concealed carry shoulder-fired rocket launchers now.
The timid, sold-out corporate media reporters can actually
look at the hundreds of people screaming and running and pissing their pants in
Vegas, and then dare tell us this isn't “terrorism.” Of course it’s terrorism. It’s NRA terrorism.
The NRA wants us to get accustomed to American mass
shootings with unlimited numbers of victims. Forget about it, treat it as
routine, file it on the back page with boil orders and bake sales. No amount of
slaughter, even if it’s dozens of children having their brains blown out, will
ever be enough to justify the least interference with their gun rites.
Not rights.
“Rites.”
But never fear, Congress is sure to address the Las
Vegas sniper massacre soon — by legalizing silencers.
And by next week, some Republican will gunsplain to
me, with great confidence, how the Las Vegas sniper massacre was nothing but a
hoax.
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