And the carnage continues – currently somewhere in Alabama – a good place to be from as the saying goes – we enter the 3rd day of a hostage crisis where a man – said to be a vet – first hijacked a bus then shot the bus driver and then dragged one of the kids into his underground bunker.
I’m not sure why this lunatic had an underground bunker to go with his AR-15 (the weapon of choice for lunatics) and one assumes small arsenal of weapons or maybe big arsenal. As reports came out this worthy gentleman was already facing gun charges and had been convicted already – one assumes he bought his guns at a gun show.
There is some talk of this being a case PTSD but in general folks with that turn inward and are mostly a danger to themselves – the bunker and what the folks about him are saying suggest you basic rural fox news paranoia about the Blah people coming. Or zombies. I’m not sure.
One hopes this works out but it illustrates the major problem with the gun debate. Too many fucking gun people are fucking nuts living in some sort of paranoid cloud cookoo land that makes pre batman Gotham city or Mad Max’s desert look like a paradise.
As an example a young woman testified before the Senate the other day that the AR-15 is the gun of choice for young women as it’s light and easy to handle and accurate and then began to spin out a fantasy of her or a young housewife battling 4-5 well armed intruders – with a child at each breast one imagines although that detail was not made clear.
Now because it was the senate and this is America this woman was listened to with gave intensity and probably will be on Fox news for the rest of our lives rather than being quietly escorted to a nice hospital for some rest and observation and having whatever state she lives in child care services take a look in on her kids because this woman is nuttier than a shithouse rate.
And this was a person chosen by the gun folks to give their side of the story – which in seems in brief to be “we’re lunatic white people scared of anyone not a lunatic white person, so we need to be heavily armed.”
It would be comical if the results were not so tragic.
Earlier this week a young man pulled into the wrong driveway in Georgia – the owner of the house came out – armed – fired one shot into the air and then when the young man was pulling out of the driveway and had rolled down the window to apologize – the 69 year old shot him in the head. The young man was Hispanic and the old man was white.
Fucking madness this is.
