PSYCHOS R US. We gots plenty of them, why sweat just one?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Hell, boys! This is America and we are right up there at the top of the hill when it comes to producing schizophrenics and other variants of "psychos." We need live targets for the gun toting populace that won't be missed by too many and the truly righteous can enjoy the fact that the gene pool has been cleansed a bit with each and every psycho that helps America by taunting an armed official.

Admitted, the 15 to 1 odds takes a lot of the sportsmanship out of it and and the wimpy-assed gun control pansies will squeal that he could have been taken down without having to blow the shit out of the deviant, but where's the American Dream in that?

The American Dream? What the hell am I talking about here? A three bedroom house, 2.1 kids and a mortgage from hell?

Not quite, This dream started in the 40's.

Shane, Roy Rogers, The Adventures of Wyatt Earp. Good guys with guns.

These guys stood up for the little guy. They tried to work (mostly) within the law. BUT! Every problem had to be heroically solved in a gun battle where the hero was hopelessly outnumbered by a hoard of what must have been myopic drunkards that couldn't hit the side of a barn with a blunderbuss at ten feet.

This paradigm slowly shifted as Eastwood's Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson's vigilante took America's dreamers on a new slant... The Hero knew better. Law became an obstacle rather than a book of rules. If these were just a few stories there would have been no change in the dream. The movies were successful and spawned countless rewrites and became fodder for frustrated teenage hero wannabees across the nation.

Just about every boy dreams of being a hero. Of saving the day. Especially during the prepubescent years. Hobbled by adults that have no idea of your potential as the hormone rage for you to prove you can take care of yourself and those around you. It's natural. That's good and to be expected. BUT! The food that feeds that dream has changed. It has become the stuff of Peckinpah and Tarantino. Blasts of blood and limbs a-flying flood the youthful psyche in a way that Homer could have only dreamed. A picture's worth a thousand words, film is worth a million. Imagination has been stunted and we are still learning to deal with cause and effect. The things that dreams are made of has changed.

Sorry, I ramble... Psychos are cheap...

Summation: Many Americans have become inured to the idea that death by authority or by, for lack of a better descriptor, death by mental defect is an expected result of living in this country. Many believe that it is a proper and good thing. Many find it easy to just assume that a cop has a hard job and should not risk stitches when it's a sick human being, but would let their bile out if the officer shot a cat out of a tree to avoid stitches or broken bones from a fall.

Reality in america has been skewed and we are all the worse off for it.

Be at peace, love your neighbor and let compassion rule over law.

TYJ

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. What would Freud say?

Guns are penises.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. He was anti-war... He co-authored a book with Einstein damning

it...

He would have been perplexed by the picture of the young American woman showing glee over the body of a dead man however.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I'm perplexed by it

some sort of strange reaction, that.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. It's a statement on American values...

[JuniperLea]

4. Oh Grannie!

You are so wise.

:)

I should have taken phallic symbolism into account before arguing peace vs murder and guns vs compassion this afternoon and I wouldn't have the sick headache I have right now.

I'm sick to death of this society. So many are becoming what they hate and don't realize what is happening.


You can't reason with penises.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. I take exception. My member has always been reasonable and

has never caused harm...

Unless you take the worst attributes of my daughter into account.

[JuniperLea]

6. Hahahahaha!

Ok, your junk is excluded!

heh!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Yes, some to behave well, that's true.

We should not stereotype. And frankly, the two guys they hang around with are more problematic.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Don't mess with FG....

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. No, you can't argue with penises

they are all about action. Do their thing then disappear.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. A thank you for the recomendations....

I like the message contained in the OP and would like to hope that more than the folks here tonight get a chance to agree or flame with me. Please at least give a "you suck" or a answer of some kind.