Tornado Alley (PROG)

[oldberkeley]

there are in this country millions of heavily-armed fascist/theo-fascist wingbutt/bagnut/teabuggerer types who would like little if anything better than to grab their gear and head out to join in a mass slaughter of those among the rest of us who stand against them, who do not or refuse to stand with them

I did a little duck hunting when I was younger and I served in the military. Guns have a very powerful attraction for people: perhaps it's some primal connection with thrown rocks and spears, I don't know. Even folks who have never fired one, who are scared of them, upon first firing one get a bit of a glazed look in their eyes. In many ways, they're like a drug. It's weird.

That said, the vast majority of people live normal lives without them. Just like the vast majority of people are not alcoholics or drug addicts or compulsive criminals, even though the opportunities for these vices are always present.

Gun nuts have given in totally. They revel in a perverse, fetishistic worship of these objects. They must own them, care for them, talk and read about them, think about them, look at them, touch them, use them. It's twisted.

And to justify this sick compulsion they wrap it in the flag, in a bizarre interpretation of one sentence written two hundred years ago.