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T EI grew up in urban America. These days, my travels take me to poor rural America.
In an urban setting, automatic weapons make no sense. In rural America, folks love their guns because they love hunting. They don't need automatic weapons either, but good luck in doing anything about it.
There is no way in hell that this freak should have been able to walk into a store and purchase automatic weapons. Too bad. That is America and that is not going to change.
The brilliant film Taxi Driver depicted a man returning from Vietnam, isolated and alone. He lives in a violent world, awash with guns. He calls himself God's Lonely Man. He comes to see himself as a savior, and through a quirk of fate, ends up killing some bad guys instead of his original target, a Presidential candidate, and thus becomes a vigilante hero.
As the late, great Kurt Vonnegut would have written, "So it goes."
Enough of this freak already. He would be quite happy to know that every time you put on AOL or your favorite news site or the television, you see him in his pose with his stupid guns, a pathetic imitation of Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, itself a pathetic imitation of the brilliant Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver.
Tell me about the kids, those poor innocents, and the teachers, innocents as well, snuffed out by this jerk, and let us speak no more of him.
Since Iraq has been brought into this thread, it is worth noting that this happens once in America and we are shattered. This happens several times a day in Iraq, a nation with less than 10% of our population. No matter which side of the war argument you are on, it does give one pause.