You know what it would take to get some gun control legislation passed in this country, you just don’t wanna say it out loud. It’s the sort of sentiment that folks with decent jobs and families don’t pipe up about, so I understand your reticence. If I had a mortgage, if I were a professional-type with a professional-type reputation to worry about, then I’d be quiet, too. But you know. You’re not an idiot. You’d be reading Bleacher Report if you were, but you’re here. You’re smart enough to figure out the needed variable in the equation. You know that a bunch of Mexicans at the Walmart ain’t gonna cut it.
It’s gonna have to be some rich white motherfuckers.
Couple dozen poor assholes got shot? Well, if they didn’t want to get massacred, then why were they poor? Ethnics got it in the ear at close range? So? Show me in the Constitution where it says you’re not allowed to murder ethnics.
No, it’s gonna have to be some rich white motherfuckers. It’s like Zappa said: Brown folks won’t make it! Yacht club would be a good spot. Debutante ball. Polo tournament. I think Sidwell Friends School has a talent night. Soft targets, all of ’em. If you brought enough ammo, you could set a record. Augusta is perfect. Weekend of the Masters. Sure, there’ll be one black guy there, but he’s real rich and friends with the President, so he’d be counted as white when the tally was taken. Upmarket mall might seem like a good idea–Short Hills in New Jersey, or Boca, or the Beverly Center–but they’re usually filled with Jews and the world has always had a laissez faire attitude when it comes to Jews getting murdered. Gotta be whites, and they gotta be the right kind (rich).
Ten bodies would do it, but best to be safe and make twenty.
Congress would set speed records realizing there ain’t no reason anyone needs an AK-47, and there ain’t no reason anyone should be allowed to smith one, sell one, buy one, or own one. It would be one of those eureka moments history books are written about. Archimedes in the bathtub, and McConnell in the Senate! Minds can change so quickly when donors’ brains are on the wall.
The truth is that some people are gonna have to die if we want the killings to stop.
Except, they DID shoot up a bunch of rich white motherfuckers- and the rich white motherfuckers were fucking congressmen, and the rich white motherfucker congressmen who were shot STILL vote against gun legislation.
If Sandy Hook couldn’t change anything…dead golfers at the Masters won’t either.
None of those kids were donors. The rich will protect their own. They always have.
I’m not sure your hypothesis stands up to testing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_California_Street_shooting#Killed
Among the victims are some partners and WASPs. Which, I might add, is one of the several reasons that Sen. DiFi got busy and got us some (limited) gun control for ten years. But memories fade, even of people with names like Merrill, Scully, and Sutcliffe.
It would be reasonable to argue that more data points are needed…
Touché