Just Down the Road Apiece in Palmetto

As the whole watching world is aware, we have an epidemic of murders raging through America. Assault weapons remain readily available and sturdily explained. We even have kits available so that "you can build your own assaul weapon right in th eprivacy of your own home."

Here's how one Southern gentleman spoke of his assault weapon. "I own an AR 15. If there is a national disaster in South Carolina where cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to because I can defend myself."

Apparently, this gentleman can forsee a time when the police will be out numbered and outarmed by an enraged 'gang' who are determined to shoot up his neighborhood but will not hesitate before attacking his home because somehow they know that he alone on his street has an assault weapon.

Pretty frightening view particularly when that perspective comes from a United States Senator, the honorable Linday Graham of South Carolina.

South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union. The state whose primary launched the presidency of Joe Biden ignited by Jim Clyburn and his Black coaltion. In his long career, South Carolina was the first primary that Biden had ever won. Without South Carolina it's Sandrs versus Trump. The state that would later vote for Trump in the national election. The Palmetto State

South Carolina.....a half hour from my home. Great Women's basketball team. Love Charleston.

Yesterday in South Carolina, another atrocity occurred. A beloved doctor, his wife and two of their grandchildren along with a workman who happened to be in the house at the time were blown to bits by an often concussed ex NFL player who had shown no previous signs of mayhem. After the slaughter of the innocents and the suicide of his son, the shooter's father, as mystified as anyone, said "he was a good boy but football ruined him." 

This recent outbreak of murder has occurred under the presidency of Biden who is taking flack for not living up to his campaign rhetoric about banning assault weapons.

Meanwhile true crime documentaries and murder stories are running rampant on teevee and in publishing. Forget about Shark Week. Next week the Oxygen Network is hosting Killer Week featuring fresh out looks and some of our most infamous murderers...the usual all scar line up of Gacy and Dahmer and Bundy and Rifkin etc. The ratings will be high.

Yesterday, I bought a book about baseball on Kindle. As a result of buying the book, Kindle recommended 50 other titles that I might like. The first 25 0f those titles were true crime murders.

Assault weapons

Fear

Politicians

Concussions

NFL

Executive Inaction

History

Media

Literature

Technology

Racism

Psychopathy

Violence

Mental Disease 

Mix 'em all together.....add national division and here we are with our Senators building barricades in their homes to protect themselves from the imaginary avenging mob.

Perhaps if we had armed our Senators with AR 15s, the Jan 6 insurrection of the Capitol might have turned out very different with guns a blazin' Senator Graham makin DAMNED sure that those assholes weren't about to enter his house.

Or maybe they wouldn't have come at all.