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And the question you need ask is who will say this too and who will say this to you “Run, no questions” and take your hand. Though predictable it really is beside the point; NRA and second amendment things. Gun control does not make crazies channel their energies into more productive activities. Most of us grew up with strict drug control; most of us know where to find gray and black market drugs. I’m not saying “If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns” I’m saying when motherfuckers start shooting up the joint waving a law at them is frivolous.
The only salient point is how to protect you and yours. I don’t want a “good defense is a good offense” type speech; the ones most likely to do that here are the ones most likely to get their weapons taken from them. What I am saying is that so far December has been rife with national and personal tragedies, national as in any nation you might be living in. Think hard about how many people you know who are really doing fine right now. Yeah; me either.
I was just doing gallows humor with the few entries about apocalypses and such. There was a kind of stick up the butt philosopher a few centuries back who had this sort of God theory that God doesn’t have to be Omni anything, he just has to be slicker than us to seem Omni, that he might have set up contrivances to keep things going (e.g. wind and seeds and rain and fertile earth, that way he doesn’t have to plant everything and keep his eye on every fucking sparrow). I’m not championing the cause of that philosophy, but in the context of recent events; it’s doesn’t have to be a worldwide end of times apocalypse to really fuck up your world, it just has to be personal.
And so the question is who will go with you no questions, who will you grab anyhow, who will take you? I’m not saying it’s going to come to that, but I’m not saying it quite as loud as I might have earlier in the year. Just saying, if you want to be a hero, be a hero, you don’t want your loved ones being heroes though. As a friend pointed out, the shooting in Clackamas were a little too close to home, a place we knew, a bit like a home invasion, there is a sense of intrusion. Connecticut; more horror less personal investment. But these things seem to be escalating, add that to your own personal losses, and you aren’t that far from the Town Center or Newton.
Without doing anything we are witnessing the crumbling of … something. Law is too slow, if the pace is maintains, the idiot pontificating on the dais is just going to be a target. All those neat little things on paper that imply punishment for abhorrent behavior don’t mean shit to the guy who isn’t planning on coming out the other side.
Yes, I know, this is ramblings from Oregon (ok, once removed) and y’all expected some sort of mourning, some plea for peace, for centering of the human psyche. Yeah, that doesn’t work on crazies any more than legislation does. Ask the question “Will you run with me, no questions?” or answer it. We aren’t really lucky enough for the 21st to be the end of the world, so you might need to know what you’ll be doing on the 22nd and who’ll be doing it with you. Ho Ho Ho. Just saying. And I’m spent (hopefully just figuratively).
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you --- Conventional Wisdom, public domain.
