This rant appeared in my facebook feed from an american friend:
Social Media: Dude, I can't believe you're cracking jokes and posting pictures of your dogs. Kids DIED.
Me: Are we going to do anything whatsoever about it?
Social Media: OK, see, what you have to...
Me: ARE WE GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? ANYTHING AT ALL?
Social Media: It's not that...
Me: Roger that. Here's a joke about beagles you can laugh at while you're fucking off out of my sight.
Look, I hate to sound like this, you have no idea how much, but if we are not going to do anything to stop gun violence, if we're not even going to talk about it because it's never the time to even do that pitiful tiny thing, then why should I care so long as it's not me or mine?
Why the hell should I care?
No. Really, why the hell should I care about 17 more dead kids? 30,000 more will die this year, they're just a minor statistic.
If the nation doesn't care, why should I?
Does that make me a lousy person?
You bet it does. That attitude is just about as shitty and selfish and short sighted as it gets. But that's AMERICA. That is America as a nation. Right there. Every day, more dead. Every day, more gun violence. We have more guns deaths in this country than some war zones. And every day, not the time to do anything about it. That's America. When it comes to gun violence, America is shitty. Selfish. And shortsighted. We are a nation of cowards who won't do what needs to be done to save our kids. Take them, spare me. And my gun.
So, if not giving a damn about the deaths of 17 MORE kids makes ME a shitty person, then not giving a damn as a nation makes AMERICA a shitty damned nation indeed.
You want hold me accountable for caring, then you have to hold America accountable too.
If you don't like that, if you find that crass and obnoxious and uncaring and unpatriotic and cowardly, then prove me wrong.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AS A NATION, AMERICA.
Or shut the fuck up.
I don't want to hear about thoughts and prayers.
Shove your prayers.
Prayers are worthless. If you're honest with yourself, you know it. I know it. Every politician knows it.
Worthless.
Prayer does NOTHING. Not for the victims, past or future. If Prayer worked, we wouldn't be in this situation.
Our government isn't paid to PRAY.
Every single politician that offers "thoughts and prayers" for the slain kids, every single one, left, right, or Bernie Fucking Sanders, I don't care, that offers empty useless prayers WITHOUT ACCOMPANYING LEGISLATION should be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity. If these rotten faithless shitty, unpatriotic, cowardly sons of bitches don't care enough to actually DO something, then they all need to go. Every single one.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AS A NATION, AMERICA.
Or shut the fuck up.
Because I'm sick and tired of writing about more dead kids killed by goddamned guns.