"Shoot Out the Lights" - Richard Thompson (with Elvis Costello)
Did you ever get the sense that you are living in country in which the sheer force of will of insane people, aided and abetted by the misguided "fairness" of our media, leaves us defenseless against forces that will render the majority of us miserable in ways big and small.
And so today, amid the general economic suicide that Republicans and many of our elite media seem to sanction, we have smaller, more blood-drenched tales, of warped and violent minds ever able to procure and deploy extraordinarily destructive weapons because it is their unfettered right.
One so-called "sovereign citizen" -- a term that seems to mean I get to do whatever pops into my psychotic mind -- was arrested for shooting up a seafood stand in Florida with an AK-47 because it ran out of crawfish. The proprietor of the store, clearly a man with no sense of perspective, was quoted as saying: "If you don't have crawfish, you can get crab or something else" he asked. "Why is crawfish so important?" If you have to ask, you just don't get what it means to be an American and be able to exercise your Second Amendment right to "suck dat head and pinch dat tail" -- it's one of the penumbras or eminations -- trust me, I'm a lawyer. Luckily, this asshole, who was found with four loaded guns in his car, including a 12-gauge shotgun, a pistol, and a revolver as well as the book "The Sociopath Next Door," which he evidently viewed as a self-help book, did not hurt anyone. "Kelly told law enforcement that he is a sovereign citizen (someone who believes that almost all forms of government in the U.S. are illegitimate), and that he doesn't have to follow the law."
On a more somber note, yet another psychotic in Arizona shot and killed five people in Yuma and wounded one other, before killing himself. Apparently there was once again an inexplicable lack of armed citizenry to dispatch the gunman. The mayor of Yuma condemned the gunman in the strongest possible terms, stating that "it's one of those things where someone went and did something very, very foolish." Like wearing stripes and checks or white after Labor Day I guess.
Has anyone waved a gun at you today? It's an open thread -- if you have the balls and the ammo to keep it that way.
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