The Dangerous, Humming Center of Chaos

Too many massacres. Too many goddamned GUNS in this country are being gripped in the unstable, angry hands of nuts who find the pressures of change and economic unrest together- too much to bear. These nuts are shooting people!

Yesterday in Binghamton New York 13 hopeful, industrious immigrants trying to find a new life, learn the language, are murdered by ANOTHER immigrant who'd recently lost his job.

Today in Pittsburgh, three police officers putting their lives on the line to answer a domestic call placed by a mother in distress because her son was out of control, are shot-- one, two, three by the nut's AK-47 rifle as they approached the door. A 22 year old trouble-maker (expelled from school, dishonorable discharge from the Marines, other run-ins with the police and who (yes)....."recently lost his job")...and this young criminal was concerned because 'Obama was going to take his guns away.'

(Heavens! That would have been a tragedy...a violation of his constitutonal RIGHTS, wouldn't it??) The mother screamed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SON??"- as officers finally cuffed him after a four hour standoff. Does anyone else hear how ludicrous that sounds? Who summoned the police in the first place, lady? Who responded at the end of their shift because a citizen placed a distress call to 911? Does anyone else see the backasswards logic in her concern about her FUCKING SON'S CONDITION???

You know since the election, I've heard morons talking about buying more guns so they can protect themselves against racial violence that is sure to come about because a black man became president. (Funny how the only people shooting in these horrifying incidents are CRAZY WHITES- the boo-hooing, disappointed conservative thinkers whose narrow definitions of freedom and patriotism haven't crossed the bridge from Bush-- to someone with new approaches to our problems. Someone who actually embodies hope for a change- not nation-building.)

And now these people are losing their jobs... whose fault is that?? The NEW president? Or the OLD one who ran this country into the ground...who allowed the rich to ride roughshod over our livelihoods and pension plans......who got us into a war we can't get out of.....who fucked us every way but Sunday, but was a 'goddamn flag waver. A "true American". A WHITE MAN, by damned, and one who was saved to boot!'

I am sickened, literally sickened by ignorance and by blind prejudice; by the conviction of those who will cling to anything that points and says, "THAT THERE, IS THE BAD GUY. OVER THERE...THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF." I'm so very sick of it.

And that mother today...........your son is a stone-cold killer. That he survived at all, given the fact that the men who arrested him had to step across the bodies of three fellow officers killed in cold blood......you should be ashamed...very ashamed. Those men came to your door because you called for help.

I grieve for all the victims of yesterday and today-- and I defy anyone to give me one good reason why anyone needs more guns in this day and age when the trigger-fingers of so many frustrated tripwire personalities are itching to make their disapproval known in gunpowder and in blood... any sane person would see that GUNS are the last thing we need.




UPDATE: This really takes the cake.....reported this morning: Shooter's mother called local newspaper "to complain about the newspaper's coverage of the shootings and threaten a lawsuit. She demanded that the newspaper stop publishing information about her and her son, saying the reporting thus far was not factual and should be limited to the officers and their grieving families.


"You're going to have the biggest lawsuit in the history of the city of Pittsburgh," she later told a reporter.

This speaks volumes. I repeat, "You should be ashamed of yourself"...(oh yes, the quote from the mother is now gone from all online news sites. Son used bullets. The mother, lawyers.)


More on this later today. I am fuming. One thought: Might it not have been prudent to mention the list of guns to the police when the call was made? You know.... saying the son was "stockpiling guns and ammunition, buying and selling the weapons online"... because revealing this after the fact did not save lives, now did it? If I were a family member of the deceased, I'd be suing the MOTHER for withholding critical information when the 911 call was placed.