"We now have the perfect formula for horror: cut mental health funding, cut education in the arts and everything else that builds empathy and the human spirit, worship a military industrial imperial 'culture' of violence sold as 'defense,' desensitize our young men with violent porn, abandon all gun regulation, accept irony and cynicism as entertainment and 'higher education' and then teach unstable young men to shoot and to glorify violence all round."
"We’re getting so cynical that we probably won’t even care or notice when there is a mass killing a week or a day, instead of 'only' once a month or so. Shoot-the-toddler video games anyone?" — Frank Schaeffer
By the way, Schaeffer wrote that before the American mass shootings were weekly, as they are now. Daily mass murder is coming right up.
“That didn’t take long,” Juan Cole noted. “The Georgia GOP
rushed into law an ‘open carry’ provision in April allowing people to tote
around guns in bars and churches (apparently these are felt to be complementary
institutions in Georgia) and schools (these are apparently felt to be full of
expendable if short people in Georgia).
“Then the national GOP and Fox Cable News (the ‘Josef
Goebbels Commemorative Propaganda Division of the American Right Wing’) backed
Cliven Bundy in his ‘sovereign citizen’ claims that he doesn’t have to pay federal
grazing fees.
“So on Saturday a sovereign citizen and former
Transportation Department employee (who made his money from the Federal
government he hates) showed up outside a Georgia courthouse armed to the teeth
with automatic weapons and other munitions and with the clear intent of taking
hostages inside the courthouse. He
was open carrying, you see, and standing up against big government. Or rather standing overtop it with a
gun to its head.
“This was a clear act of terrorism, but since it was
committed by a white person, no one brought the word up.”
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