And the madness probably will never be stopped...

As I write this, I pass the 24^th anniversary of the night I was arrested in New York City for being believed that I was going to gravely harm (at barest minimum) Deborah Gibson.

And yet, as the moment of the arrest anniversary passes, my thoughts turn to West Texas and yet another mass shooting: 21 more successes for the American Right, the American Militia, and the terrorist organization which is the National Rifle Association.

A White Hispanic in a 60% Trump 75% White Hispanic town in Western Texas bought two guns on his 18^th birthday and mowed down an elementary school today. Current body count (since that is all these animals on the Right respond to) is eighteen students and three teachers.

And my first thought, when I woke from a nap this afternoon to hear of the shooting for the first time was the concept of the NRA National Anthem: Queen's “Another One Bites The Dust”.

I'm hearing the anger of the likes of Steve Kerr and the like, and yet the only thing that's going to get through to them is the war they obviously seek.

We are not a nation mature enough to handle guns.

We have way too many people openly willing to shoot if they could get their fetish for their guns to override their cowardice because they are MAGA.

This was an American-born person – he was a citizen. And, yet, I will be very interested to see what this piece of shit's motivations were.

Now I'm hearing the usual suspects: FOX believing kids aren't reporting known threats for fear of being “the school snitch”...

There's two problems with that, you Republican whores:

First, speaking as “the school snitch” when I was in high school – at some point, you do simply have to do it, knowing you aren't popular enough to begin with.

And second, you're all but implying our schools (and the demeanor of our children) is little to nothing better than the types you deal with around Riker's Island!

Let THAT (at least the latter) process!

ZeroHedge and the like with the “crisis actors”/fraud approach. I'm even hearing at least a form of this from one of the commenters I do agree with!

Look, if they wanted to disarm the country as a function of “taking us out”, it'd be like the (Qanon belief of a) lack of a real COVID pandemic in that regard – it would've already started. To think this is going on in that realm is completely illogical.

I truly believe that these shootings are openly desired results, openly wanted occurrences, and basically are used as further bludgeons against those “we don't like”. (That “if you were holy enough, your child would not be going to that kind of school”/”would not have been in the line of fire”/etc.)

So it's not going to be stopped, because no one on about 40% of the country wants it to stop, because what they want is the right to kill who they want, when they want, but only when they have the balls to do so.

Which kinda dovetails back to today, and I want to pull up a comment Deborah said and establish it's complete falsity – something I have had to learn over the last 24 years.

The comment:

“FREEDOM is loving who you are and loving life, not because of or despite any external influences negative or positive. I hope you are feelin’ your vibe today and reminding yourself that you are worthy of all love all-ways !!!”

Categorically and completely false – and completely ignorant of the reality many people have to live in this cesspool of a society.

Much of this comes from the fact you have to be acceptable as a precondition of having that “external influence” removed. You have to be acceptable FIRST.

And if you don't want to believe that, ask that of the transgender community, under continued attack by that good little false-comedian thug Dave Chappelle...

… or the NRA, who just claimed at least 21 more victories today (and who knows how many more, since some of the victims are so fucked up, they can't do facial recognition on the remaining victims!)...

… or reproductive-age women, who are about to be told they are no more than baby and sammich-making machines, etc.

… or those in any line of society which society wants them removed from (which is the sole basis of those who get the law enforced against them and those who do not – am I right, Bill Cosby?)...

I could go on if you want...

No, Deborah Ann: You don't get those rights you speak of without others allowing you to have those rights.

No, I am not loved always. That's also conditional, it seems, in our society. The only two entities who would even to purport to love me right now are God (which doesn't apply here – His plan does not guarantee, in the LEAST, one's ability to do all of these things you speak of), and the obligation of my family (which doesn't apply here either, because I can't assure their safety going forward, for the same presumed depravity I did the time for!).

I am not loved for who I am, the living situation I am in, my assumed depravities, my willingness to raise Hell and take names, my willingness to “say the quiet part out loud”, and I could continue this list...

But I am also not loved for what it is I am believed I am going to do, more so the more I care about the other person involved.

I am not loved always. Sorry, there are realities which mean the “external influences” have far more power than one's personal beliefs on the situation – especially when the former can easily (and with the force of law) wipe out the latter. Seriously.

There's positivity, and there's just complete falsehood when you have to be realized by force it never applied to you in the first goddamned place. Not now, not in 1998, not in 1989 – and that's with all of the ramifications THAT had.

And that dovetails back to Texas. We are an ignorant, savage nation who believes more in Isaiah 47:3 (more directly, the non-canonical Bible book of Nahum 1:2 – the concept of the LORD being a jealous and vengeful God) than John 3:16 (God's love for the world) and Romans 3:23, that all have fallen short in the sight of God.

So we have a nationful of men (and women who wish they were men like that gun-toting terrorist Congresscritter Boebert) who put their stock literally into their guns and basically state that their entire identity and freedom come from that source.

There's more than a bit of me that hopes I don't see the 25^th anniversary. I've already warned my family. If I make it to football season, it will be more evidence of that side's cowardice and stupidity.