Playing the part, they stood stoic, all assembled on the lawn at the White House. A moment of silence they requested, a time for photographs, thoughts and prayers, perhaps a melancholy sound bite. Then, the post mortem was over and all that could be heard floating in the wind were words of “no discussion on gun laws now," “no time for politics, while people are still grieving,," the murdering of innocents is part of the price we pay for freedom”; and the very best 'God Bless the 2nd Amendment!” Then off to the offices of the very Lobbyists, who shall decide which laws are changed, which laws remain, and which laws are completely ignored.
As harsher guns are produced, weapons which even Armies quiver about regarding their use in war, for American consumption, we will once again find division not compromise on the importance of murder in the psyche of American culture. Those politicians receiving huge financial benefits, will simply say it is our right to bear arms. Those politicians with deep Evangelical and Southern sources of Lobby income will produce fake historical revelations from both a Bible and some antidotal phony reports. We will be told taking a knee for the Flag is UnAmerican, but holding an Assault Riffle high above your head, something the Founding Fathers would be proud of.
It was a white guy, who murdered and maimed hundreds, but he was not a terrorist. Nothing to see here but a crazy man permitted to own not only one gun, but at least 60. Sometime, we will be told, a bad guy buys a gun, that of course should not be the deciding reason to BEGIN any serious form of Gun Reform. This is America, the freedom to kill certainly out weighs the freedom not to be killed. Like every other Breaking News item, the talking heads will appear, the Republicans will diminish the whole Gun/Murder/Killing thing, the Dems will protest, pointing fingers and all of this will play out on every news outlet UNTIL, the nest BREAKING NEWS item forces itself onto the public. The American voter thinks we still have control over our on government, but once again we have discovered the real people with power are the CORPORATIONS who own a very weak, spineless, and self-serving group of professional politicians. I use the term Silence Equals Death, to make a point about how quiet we sometimes get…just wait until the Republican Congress votes yes on permitting more and more gun loving Americans to place silencers on their weaponry of war!
