"Things Can Happen"

Things WILL happen

First he called Brown “...a great school, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world,” as if he hasn’t been trying to handcuff all schools, “great” or not, because they make people smart; and as if he knows dick about any of them.

Then this What-Me-Worry, Alfred E. Trump, Let’s-Play-President half-wit (I rounded up) says about yet another mass shooting that has ended in-class education for the rest of the semester for most of an entire university, extinguished the lives of two human beings and sent nine others to the hospital, “Things can happen.”

No shit.

Things can happen, and they will. Load up your entire citizenry with firepower and the things that will happen will be murder. Again and again and again and...

I can hear the so-called freedom loving gun nuts (Gnuts for short) now: “Australia has strict anti-gun laws and look what happened there. This Brown shooter only racked up two, while this father-son Aussie team took out fifteen. See, gun laws don’t work. If them Jews on the beach had’da been packin’, they could’a protected theirselves.”

It does zero good to point out to the Second Amendment Gnuts or their representation in Congress, our annual body count as opposed to that of Australia. All you’ll get back is a barrage of newer and dumber names to call you in order to attack your patriotism, or in about fifty percent of the population, your manhood.

Mukhammad Azzi Umurzokov and Ella Cook, both undergrads at Brown, one from Virginia and the other from Alabama, won’t be going home for the winter break. Their families...their proud families (hey, they got into Brown) just had the shades pulled down on their lives. The wounded, along with their families, get to live with the horror, and the physical damage, forever.

All because “Things can happen.”

I grew up with kids whose families hunted for food. I get that, and it is the sole reason for an American citizen to own a gun. Sport hunting? Sorry, killing an animal to make you feel powerful is total bullshit; just another made-up story. You and your dad could have “bonded” over any number of activities that didn’t involve bloodshed. And I can already hear you bellowing about how you need guns to protect your family, but had evolution taken a turn toward empathy and inclusion rather than toward fear and suspicion, we’d have never allowed ourselves to set foot on this absurd path we’ve traveled down.

Look, even a human being with a IQ of fifty is smart enough to understand this: Guns put holes in things, and most times those things are ruined; what’s inside them runs out, and way too fucking often what runs out is blood...and life.

I know that kind of radical thinking is deemed preposterous, and I know that over time it could be acted on, but it won’t be. But should we, by some miracle, come to a place where a majority of Americans become willing to embrace their humanity over their philosophy; a place where our collective imagination automatically aches for Mukhammad’s or Ella’s families and loved ones, we could, over generations, get a little more of this toxic toothpaste back into the tube.

Until then, which means until forever, I can only wish that every human being wounded or murdered due to our astonishing indifference, is the loved one of a Second Amendment Gnut.

Unfortunately,things can happen,so I ain’t gonna get my wish