Well, here we are again. Another shooting, seemingly random, in another random town in America. The press tells us a 'gunman' shot several people at a Wendy's, then turned the gun on himself. They use that term, gunman, to make sure we know a gun was used. When a murderer uses other means, they don't bother to integrate the method into the ID of the culprit. So we never hear about a 'macheteman', or a 'handman', say, if someone gets strangled. 'Killer' or 'murderer' is never used; that would be judgmental. No, they will judge only what has been done to him, not what he has done to others.
Many days will be spent wringing hands and talking to former acquaintances, while reporters try to get a feel of what he wanted, what his hopes and dreams were, and how society let him down. Did he have words with his mom? Did his wife leave him? Was he disenfranchised? What could have been done to save this poor man, they will ask.
They will show us his picture, one from better days. They will give us his full name, and repeat it often. They will present him as a victim of the availability of firearms.
Then, as the news cycle runs down and other events take the spotlight, they will forget him altogether.
As for the victims--you can be forgiven for forgetting there were others besides him, the ones he assaulted and murdered--they too will fade in our memories, becoming just a number next to his name in a footnote, referenced for statistical purposes only. The date, the killer's name, number of casualties, next entry.
The common thread in these public slayings is that the murderer almost invariably kills himself after slaughtering others. If these twisted souls would only reverse the order of events and kill themselves first, I think we can all agree they'd leave the world a better place.
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Meanwhile, in some murky corner of the collective Democrat mind, a sense of knowing satisfaction simmers away. They must never actually say "good!" because that would betray their real goal of complete public disarmament, one of the brass rings of Socialism,Fascism and Communism. It doesn't trouble the Feinsteins, Schumers, and Boxers that socialism killed 50,000,000 million in WW2, 20,000,000 in Stalin's communist utopia, and then only in the 1970's-35,000,000 in communist China.
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
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