A movie plot doesn't make one crazy. A costume is not the mark of a mass murderer.
The lack of access to health care - including mental health care - IS an issue. But here in We're Number One America, we aren't talking about that, except to demonize the guy who has made an attempt to fix the problem (not a big enough attempt for me, but that's for another time). We're making fun of his health care plan, with half the country calling for its repeal.
Meantime, we're banning costumes at theaters after a man who is clearly not normal shot at people in costumes while watching a movie about a crazy man shooting people. We will also be required to submit to bag searches to be let into movies showing any title, not just Batman at midnight. I guess, you know, it happened, and you know, it could, you know, happen again.
Yessirree, we're square on top of it, we are.
The man who did the shooting this time had a .43 cal Glock, an S&W .223 assault rifle, a 12 ga. shotgun, and another.43 Glock. He also had more than 6,000 rounds. In buckets. They list this list. Everyone wants the list. I will bet anything that sales of those guns will go up for a time, like Bushmaster sales went up after an earlier not normal person and his not normal teenage companion shot up the DC area a few years back.
A man known to be a loner, known to have social issues, known to be despondent at being highly educated and unemployed, highly educated and working at McDonalds, highly educated and dropping out of grad school due to poor grades, is not a normal man. When such a man amasses an arsenal, it underscores his not being normal.
When such a man orders body armor over the internet and has it delivered by priority, we all need to worry.
But, of course, it wasn't the guns that did the killing. It was the man who used the guns inappropriately who did the killing.
Is that right?
Had he taken a gun safety course, we'd be cool today, right?
A background check would have . . . . wait . . . . it would have turned up nothing. In this case, one parking (speeding??) ticket.
So those seem to be the essential ingredients here.
A man who is not normal
A man who is not normal going untreated
A man who has free access to guns.
A man who was able to buy a shitload of body armor by expedited delivery and raising no red flags in so doing
And our reaction is to pull the more violent trailers of the movie that was playing when his bullets hit over fifty moviegoers, killing a dozen of them.
Our reaction is to ban costumes at movie theaters.
Our reaction to increase "theater security" and subject all patrons to a bag check. (How long until the surplus, well used TSA magnetometers find their way here???)
Our reaction is to call for new laws.
The result will be another demonstration of the strength of the NRA.
We're Number One.
In gun ownership. We own more guns than there are people.
This is one issue where I side with Michael Bloomberg: Mr. Obama and Mr. Rmoney, as you ask for my vote, please talk about guns and what YOU intend to do about them.
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