Commiserations my friends,
I have had a few thoughts on the Blacksburg massacre. Not related to the victims or response teams - more about the mourner in chief and his cohorts.
I wanted to know who wins from this sick debacle.
Unless Sting releases a "sympathy" single I can't see how pop music has any relevence today.
Suggest you play Beethovens Requiem Mass. It suits the mood and is soothing somehow.
Here is what I have come up with.
Formula:
Psycho Kill kids.
Public buys guns to defend itself and armours homes, cars and schools.
Increase paranoia across the country.
Isolate a racial characteristic and make that a reason for allienation.
Sales of guns increase tenfold.
Shareprices of arms makers increase tenfold.
Foreigners become harrassed and carry guns for self protection.
One or two get involved and kill.
More guns bought for "defence"
Cheney - Haliburton and all Bush's cronies make money.
More guns - more deaths = more money = a virtuous money making cycle for some.
Winner - Arms dealers and manufacturers ( you don't make guns to grow food )
Winner - security companies
Winner - Paranoia councillors
Winner - Weird sects that divide people from their neighbours
Winner - Racists
Winner - Fox News
Winner - Funeral homes
Loser - everyone else
My advice:
Protest Peacefully.
Do not get freaked out.
The odds of getting shot in America are really bad but they are still only 41 gun related deaths per /1 million population
(1/1 million in UK where there are no legal guns and 3/1 Million in France. In other words you are 41 times less likely to be killed in a country that has no weapons to defend yourself with. There's not much need to shoot someone dead when you can jump back five feet and miss his fist is there? We don't carry arms so criminals don't either and crazy people can't get them so the best they can do is strangle you and I think its pretty hard to strangle 34 people without being stopped.)
Buy shares in gun companies - they are going to have a bumper year.
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