(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . America's Gun Violence: Thoughts and Prayers [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-26 Foreword America's uniquely nightmarish pariah status, as a 'guns and profit over people' state, is ironclad, irreversible and insane. Mockery-laden 'thoughts and prayers' default responses to daily mass killings are trite, trifling,and thoughtless. THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS Swimming in a tank of killer-sharks in the throes of a feeding frenzy, and expecting not to be shredded to minute particles in a nanosecond. Thoughts and Prayers ** Absorbing copious amounts of a deadly viral pathogen, and hoping to live a long, healthy, unencumbered life. Thoughts and Prayers ** Counting on Hitlerian card-carrying, die-hard supremacists to denounce Mein Kampf. Thoughts and Prayers ** Poking ones' head into a hornet's nest of fiesty, angry wasps, yet avoiding getting swarmed and stung. Thoughts and Prayers ** Unceasing, hate-filled, depraved rhetoric spewed out on an industrial scale by modern-day antichrists, absent, reactions from individuals triggered into perpetrating acts of mindless violence. Thoughts and Prayers ** Rolling around and luxuriating in a bed of poison ivy and stinging nettles, and emerging unruffled with calm, clear, baby-smooth skin. Thoughts and Prayers ** Plunging into a concealed pit of hissing, writhing, fork-tongued vipers engaged in a mating ritual, and escaping venomous attacks. Thoughts and Prayers ** Encountering rampaging, vampiric human monsters, who will contrary to their nature and avowed calling, voluntarily exercise self-restraint and forego their bloodlust. Thoughts and Prayers ** Clinging tenaciously to the victim paradigm, whilst nursing perceived injustices and manufactured grievances, absent recourse to the truth, and stoically refraining from viciously lashing out against traditional, hackneyed scapegoats. Thoughts and Prayers ** Raising high altars to the worship of guns and profit, in trance-like idolatrous service and sacrifice, whilst claiming to promote - The Ten Commandments. Thoughts and Prayers Plowing and seeding wide swathes of arable land with poppy fields; thereafter, expressing cognitive dissonance concerning ensuing national emergency/crisis levels of opioid addiction. Thoughts and Prayers ** Force-feeding infants and toddlers an obligatory and steady diet, mimicking mother's milk, glorifying gun ownership and culture, and somehow, miraculously not grooming a generation of natural-born killers. Thoughts and Prayers ** Super-saturating a tapestry in the blood of human innocents, draping it on the Republican Party side of the US congressional wall, and expecting stalwarts to acknowledge its presence, origins, and the blood droplets, continuously seeping into the malodorous carpet. Thoughts and Prayers ** Posing in family or personal pictures elevating battlefield, weapons of war, to haute couture, urban chic or country living, statement-piece accessories; geared to appeal to edgy, violent enthusiasts. Albeit, the grim reaper-esque images, underscore the moral bankruptcy of the dishonourable, despicable, 'Freaks & Folly Fashion House' (F.F.F.). Thoughts and Prayers ** The unholy trinity of gun manufacturers, the NRA, and Republican Party lawmakers is a cornerstone of American auto-cannibalism. The cabal is in lockstep with the bloodletting and carnage. Its fraternal motto: 'Guns do not kill, people do.' Thoughts and Prayers © 2023 by Irene Fowler [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/26/2201735/-America-s-Gun-Violence-Thoughts-and-Prayers?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/