Aurora, A Few Days Later

I will say it 5,000 times, there is nothing going to happen on gun control as a result of this heinous act. For chrissakes Obama is using NRA language talking about supporting enforcement of laws already on the books.  Nothing is going to move as result of this. Alright I got that.
But then…

I keep hearing gun supporters talk about what might have happened if someone, or more than one person, had been in the theatre when the shooter went batsh**. I am conjuring a picture in my head of three or four people-- also armed-- dodging behind seats in the dark and gassed theatre. I think we can be sure that man in the front of the theatre with full, head-to-toe, body armor might have gone down with a single shot to the 3/4" of his body which was not covered.  Surely no other people would have been shot by some yahoo (or yahoos) with a John Wayne complex and bad aim. What a pile of crap.

I love Ice T but his pressed linen gangster routine confuses. He told an interviewer that guns are the last thing we have to “fight “tyranny” and specifically to “…Protect yourself from the police”.  Well maybe in some fantasy ain’t I a tough SOB world, but for the Ice of “Ice and Coco”, or “Law and Order SVU”, really? The fact is that the bullets kill thousands of young black men, and Ice T knows full well how close he was to being one of those statistics. The sight of the rich, well pressed OG, encouraging young black men to hold onto their guns to protect themselves is 1) Not helpful and 2) Something more like a posture than anything remotely real.

Finally there are those that point to DC or Chicago with their intense inner city gun crime and say, “See, look how restrictive the gun laws are there and that doesn’t seem to help.” Since guns are not actually manufactured in these cities can we assume they actually come from somewhere else? Could it possibly be that lax gun laws in some of these other states leads to gun trafficking where straw buyers purchase 20,30 or more guns and then transport them to these urban environments where overlapping issues allow a culture of violence to persist. Poverty is a dirty word for both parties. No one gives a shit or will risk anything politically to address the near thankless and so relentless issues which plague these communities. Once this posture is extended and extrapolated out I assume these people would then suggest that the answer to all that violence and all that waste is more guns and more violence. But inner city kids are expected to rise above that. No jobs, no training, horrific educational institutions, poverty, drugs, all of it swallowed up by a sea of prosperity on every border in a mindlessly consumerist society.  Gun proponents that point to crime in Chicago and DC could give a crap about those cities or the people living there. If they did they might do something besides point their little white finger and say, See…”