"If This Be Gun Reasoning: A Case for More Mass Shootings in America" by Patti Henry

There's a simple correlation between most mass shooters

in America: Predominantly white, angry, frustrated fellas

who just felt like they weren't being listened to or respected.

It's always some random, petty foolishness like:

*Some girl wouldn't go out with them

*Somebody fired them because they're an asshole

*Their life is boring and they need a change-up

*All that ammo sitting around unused is such a waste

But here's what you never see in America, by design:
You never see a truly disenfranchised person getting a
bunch of guns to vocie a legitimate grievance. Because

if the formerly passive victims (who otherwise for sure

know their place) were to suddenly rise up and arm 

themselves, there would be one other significant change

in the M.O.; No more randomness.

When this started happening previously, TPTB put
an end to it quickly. They know a threat to 'business
as usual' when they see one. But good ideas don't die.

See, white people who get gun-mad to take out their

frustrations just go to the path of least resistance. 

They shoot up strangers in public, just trying to maim

or kill as many living creatures as they can. They want to

share their burden of pain--to take away what they perceive

as everyone else's happiness (which comes from not living

their life.)

Even when they do target a specific place they

consider the origin of their pain, like a workplace where 

they were fired, they end up killing the secretary that was

always nice to them, the woman they had a crush on, their 

best work-buddy that kept him from getting fired as long

as he possibly could. 

It's just a bunch of misguided, directionless, scatter-shot

(if you will) bullshit that serves no purpose.

Because if the people with a real ax to grind start killing

en masse, we'd see a very different demographic being hit.

Put a gun in the hand of every transvestite person,
transsexual, and drag queen, and hate crimes
will go down dramatically.

We'd see a major slaughter of corrupt cops who have 

beaten and falsely arrested (and planted evidence on and

shot and killed) innocent people of color.

We'd see rapists and child molesters (also rapists,

by the way) being hanged in front of city hall,

either as a group or serial killer

style--slowly but surely.

There would be an attack on the walls of Congress so 

bloody that they would never be able to reopen due 

to the depth of the carnage rendered there.

See, these are people who harm and destroy on the 

regular. And we somehow have tacitly agreed to be okay 

with that--or at least subservient to their whims. 

But on the day of reckoning, all that would change. 

Which is exactly why those in power work so hard to 

keep the guns in what they consider 'the right hands.'

None of the power elite care about mass shootings

 or random poor people or Vegas strip partiers. 

It isn't them or theirs being assaulted, so 

why would they give a fuck about the unwashed
masses?

You must have one to get the other, and you
especially need plenty of either one to get away
with using them. The more deadly you are, the
more you can get away with in America.

But if the sick and dying, or grieving parents and 

spouses, were to arm themselves fully and make an 

attack on the heads of insurance companies at 

a big corporate retreat? Whooo-ee, child, there would be 

a come-to-Jesus meetin' about guns.

If all the trodden-upon gays and lesbians and trans-

gender folks--if all their surviving friends and family 

members and partners--decided to bring justice 

against the churches that have created true suffering 

in untold lives with their vicious teachings and 

indifference? The government really would start 

coming into your homes and taking your guns.

If a white supremacy gathering where the extinction of

other so-called races of people (look it up--there's only 

one race!) were to be savaged by a group made up of

various people-of-color? Using the very assault rifles

the Nazis proudly carry to intimidate others (and serve 

as adult-pacifiers?) There would be a new segregation 

that involved putting fences up around mostly-black 

neighborhoods and dropping other black folks off there.

See, the problem isn't with mass shootings.

The problem is that the wrong people are getting the guns

and the wrong people are dying. So let's change that!

Be prepared, The next time you see cops drawing
down on an unarmed teenager, handle your
business. You know no one else will. (Court system?!?
Oh, you got jokes, eh!)

When that man shot up the Republican basketball game,
Americans didn't really give a rat's ass, because this was

people who create harm and death for women, children,

and minorities on the daily getting their comeuppance.

It was Karmic Justice. It's rare, it's beautiful--but 

because we know 'our' government is watching us, 

most people know better than to applaud it in public.

But in that uniquely well-intentioned, politically-directed

Del Ray shooting in June of this year, you will notice 

that the reaction from the people in power was fast, 

furious, outraged, and shocked. This sort of thing 'just 

doesn't happen' to folks like them! Why? Because they take 

pains to insulate themselves and keep armed guards 

around and not be around the 'kind' of folks they 

imagine pose a threat to them.

But this buffer that exists--this sense of inherent safety

by virtue of the privileged truly believing that they are

untouchable--it's pure fantasy. It's a staged construct

designed to portray them as more significant than they 

are, and to reinforce that perception of invulnerability
in the minds of the people that they rule over mercilessly.

We're currently a society where the Haves have convinced

the rest of us to follow their ridiculous double-standard;

That they can do what they want without restriction, and 

the disenfranchised can't even be upset and protest it free

from more of the same shitty treatment that was visited 

upon them to start. Certainly there is no acceptance of 

reciprocal action, of divine retribution, or justice. 

It simply is not 'allowed.' 

"Compliance for you; Freedom for Me."

It's the unspoken contract in America.

Baseball. Apple pie. Jesus. Shame.
Greed. And Guns. They're the all-American
tenets, but until now they've not been
accessible for everyone. Gun Equality NOW.

If the paradigm ever shifts in this country, where the

downtrodden and the maligned focus their righteous 

anger and dissatisfaction into an effective, laser-sharp 

focus of taking care of the true problems that face them? 

Look out.

Because the marginalized have long memories. 

The economic terrorism that has been perpetrated 

by big business is not lost on them. They know it's 

the Waltons to blame, not the manager at the 

local Wal-Mart. The profiteering drug manufacturers in 

Big-Pharma are responsible for the deaths of their 

kids and grand-kids. ICE gleefully ripped their families

apart without provocation and with malice.
A giant orange clown has destroyed Puerto Rico.

Yes, the decent people of the world know who to target.

And when they finally overcome their trepidation that 

has been conditioned into them over the years, we will 

see the next glorious evolution in this country's love affair 

with the gun. And it's hard to stop a revolution that is 

happening in a thousand cities at once, unannounced 

and well-planned.

This is a country where guns are available, affordable,

effective, and beloved. Using them to release frustrations 

is just part and parcel of the American Experience. 

All things being equal under the law, it's time to let 

everyone have a crack at the great American pass-time;

killing as many people as possible without regard 

for law or repercussions--with a purpose.