What the World Needs Now is Guns, Sweet Guns: Our Zeitgeist

Are the Chapel Hill shootings the story of a hate crime or of a mentally ill person? A story about personal space played out in a parking lot? A couple or all of these, I'm sure, but more than anything an NRA, gun rights, second amendment nonstarter of a story.

A nonstarter because if you try to take guns away from Americans or even prevent them from increasing their arsenals or even so much as talk about it they will go nuts and probably shoot you. In fact they may do that in anticipation of it, from anxiety, as they have shown.

With regard to Barack Obama. They thought he looked like a guy who might go after their guns so they went ahead and went nuts, just to be on the safe side, as did that pig of a white guy who shot those intelligent, attractive, responsible, law-abiding young Muslims.

He was just being proactive and forward thinking in ensuring a well-run parking situation for everyone. So he overdid it a little. Nowhere near so much as George Bush did cowboying his way into Iraq and was he ever held responsible? I want a library of my own.

To justify the stupid shit I've done in my life. It's only fair. We might not like how it looks but that pig of a white guy is us. It's what we now stand for. To the extent that there is a unified Muslim menace we are Nazis. If we're going to go broad-brush we need to be consistent.

And apply the same brush to ourselves. The Nazis were as representative of white, western, Christian culture as ISIS is of Islam. I'm really against tribalism and Muslims may actually be more tribal than Christians but we can't know what the truth is.

Because we started messing with them, in our arrogance and presumption, and might have caused them to go tribal on us, instead of only tribal on themselves. Our record on this is not as good as we like to think and the Middle East is our parking lot.

A self-declared area of strategic interest. And we happen to have all these guns sitting around, our munitions, so it's no surprise they get used rashly at times and with little or no provocation. The stuff is so cool and easily deployed and we're so enamored of it.