Setting Records For Death, Leaving the Rest of Us, We Hope, Out of It

IT SOMEHOW SEEMS MORBIDLY APPROPRIATE, in a country consumed with competition, being the best, the biggest, the most, that a new national record was established in the great American sport of mass murder. Henceforth, all future mass murderers will have something to shoot for, so to speak, with the knowledge that from now on, setting new records for meting out death will come with a high price, and a lot of ammunition. Its hard to imagine anyone ever again doing much damage with anything but a full fledged assault weapon; in our fast paced future, even a semi-automatic firearm might not fill the bill. The new magic number is now forty nine, or fifty, if you want to count the perpetrator. And why not? Anyone who goes to so much trouble then dies in the process surely deserves enough credit to be officially counted among the dead. So let's call the new record fifty, and leave it at that. A quick warning to will be spree killers: if you target members of the LesbianGayBisexualTransgender community, you will arouse less anger and response from American conservatives than you would by walking into a church and opening fire. Just the way things are. Ironically, loyal Islamic Statists and American Christian conservatives have something fundamental in common: they both hate the lsebiangaybisexualtransgender community, as well as each other's religion. Oh well. they'll find a way to work out their religious differences, in their own way. Let's just hope that they can find a way to leave the rest of us out of it, no matter what our sexual orientation. If American conservative Christians install their agenda, which includes arming all the good people in America, we may soon have an opportunity to keep score on a daily basis.