Arming All Good Americans, Part II

WELL, IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG, did it? (see article "Arming All Good Americans" below). Actually, less than two days. Two new shooting sprees have "popped up", so to speak, in the United States of Armament, less than a week after the Charleston church massacre, and I'm going to be a millionaire soon, as soon as those who took me up on my little wager pay up, which, being good Americans, they surely soon shall. Only one person was killed in the two latest incidents, but that's enough, they still qualify as mass shootings, since a whole boatload of folks was wounded. Its the thought that counts. Some mass murderers just can't shoot straight, thank heavens. If the conservative American community gets it way, and all us good Americans start going heals, we'd all best be spending some quality time at the rifle range, just in case. Few of us might be a tad rusty, or downright wild. The American people just do not pack enough heat. We don't have enough guns on good people in public places, and that's why so many people are getting shot. Never anybody around to put a stop to the carnage before it really gets rolling. Poverty, social alienation, widespread desperation and frustration and anger throughout America are irrelevant, says popular conservative dogma. Its the shooter's fault, exclusively, regardless of the kind of country he lives in. Environment plays no part. In a more perfect world, each and every would be mass murderer would be stopped cold by a barrage of righteous bullets from a concerned citizen, and that, as they say, would be that. An economically and emotionally sick society is quite beside the point. What we need is more guns.