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Bang, You\u2019re Dead<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
A<\/span>propos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, \u201cwe\u2019re going to have to come together and stop these things from happening.\u201d That\u2019s an understandable sentiment, and the president has to say something, after all. But within the context of how life is lived in this country these days, we\u2019re not going to stop these things from happening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And what is that context? A nation physically arranged on-the-ground to produce maximum loneliness, arranged economically to produce maximum anxiety, and disposed socially to produce maximum alienation. Really, everything in the once vaunted\u00a0American way of life<\/em>\u00a0slouches in the direction of depression, rage, violence, and death.<\/p>\n

This begs the question about guns. I believe it should be harder to buy guns. I believe certain weapons-of-war, such as assault rifles, should not be sold in the civilian market. But I also believe that the evolution of our Deep State \u2014 the collusion of a corrupt corporate oligarchy with an overbearing police and surveillance apparatus \u2014 is such a threat to liberty and decency that the public needs to be armed in defense of it. The Deep State needs to worry about the citizens it is fucking with.<\/p>\n

The laws on gun sales range from ridiculously lax in many states to onerous in a few. Yet the most stringent, Connecticut, (rated \u201cA\u201d by the Brady Campaign org), was the site of the most horrific massacre of recent times so far, the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting. The handgun law in New York City is the most extreme in the nation \u2014 limiting possession only to police and a few other very special categories of citizens. But it took the \u201cstop-and-frisk\u201d policy to really shake the weapons out of the gang-banging demographic. And now that Mayor Bill deBlasio has deemed that \u201cracist,\u201d gang-banging murders are going up again.<\/p>\n

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Bang, You\u2019re Dead Apropos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, \u201cwe\u2019re going to have to come together and stop these things from happening.\u201d That\u2019s an understandable sentiment, and the president has to say something, after all. But within the context of how life is lived in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6734,199,9813,9812,449,584,635,4622,827,834],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-arms","tag-deep-state","tag-gun-laws","tag-guns","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-obama","tag-police-state","tag-surveillance-state","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13312,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions\/13312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}