Police State

So we have another school shooting. If you don't already know that, you must be living in a cave. I heard it on NPR when we were sitting down to lunch and my reaction was a bug-eyed stare and ask, "Why??" One shooting in a dorm...sure, getting back at an ex. Happens a LOT. Shooting one, two, even five people in a class. OK, the person in question was...er...disgruntled, and wanted to take out the aggressors. Not exactly the type of thing advocated in anger management class, but within the realm of understanding. Lining up the entire class and shooting every one of them? Pardon my French, but WTF?



Doug sits down and with prophetic vision says, "Just watch. They're going to call it terrorism." A school shooting? Oh, come now.



And this evening on the news they're starting to say the shooter was a Chinese man who was here on an expired student visa. Which of course would bounce the ball into the Homeland Security court, which scares the hell out of me. Once again, I'm bug-eyed. They really are going to call it terrorism. "How did you know?"



Many of the blogs now are starting to rant on gun control. Not broad enough of a vision, in my opinion. Homeland Security doesn't bother with gun control. They play with broad and unauthorized wiretapping, enemy combatants, and other assorted KGB-like exploits. How incredibly convenient that now, with the Dems dominating Congress and questions about the Patriot Act coming to the fore, we suddenly have another big "terrorist" attack. This will undoubtedly require lots and lots of new rules and broad, sweeping governmental powers. We all must be protected, after all.



Yeesh.

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