For how long?

Eva Mireles (victim)
4th-grade teacher

We all know the drill. Regular broadcasting will be rudely interrupted with news flashes of yet another senseless killing in public. All cable news network cameramen will run to the site hoping to catch a glimpse of yet another gore porn over prime time. They will appear empathetic, trying to blank out the faces of victims and underaged but secretly wish they could exhibit violence in its full glory.

Then for the next few hours will be reels over reels of footage of witnesses and victims relating their dastardly experiences. The police chief will come forward with a press release that they have identified the perpetrator. The chief will be flabbergasted how the aggressor managed to possess his firepower. A revealing loophole in the system would manifest - he is underaged, that he purchased his assault weapon at a mall, that he has mental issues, that he bought it in another state, yadda yadda. Then his social media would expose his screwed up ideology and true intentions that went below the radar, whilst others get barred by FB or Youtube for politically incorrect phrases!

Experts will be whisked in to opine their two cents worth - that the USA has got to get its act together. Politicians will cry for the victims and plead, "for how long do we have to endure this?" The gun lobbyist will saunter in to proclaim that 'guns do not kill people, people do!'; without a gun, an angry or deranged would have to run all the way to his intended target and lay a punch or beat the pulp out of his victim. And the damage is far less brutal.

Over the following days, the incident site would be revisited to show wreaths and cute figurines left by mourners. The frequency of the mention of the incident would dwindle. Pretty soon, another national crisis would loom. The shooting incident would be forgotten until another shooting in another vicinity. It is then another state or county's headache to sort out.

Anyone with half a brain will know that gun kills, and it does that much more at ease with the least effort. Experiences in countries that outlawed gun usage have drastically reduced gun-related crimes. One does not need guns to live in modern times. Easy access to guns just makes it necessary to possess bigger and more powerful firearms, even overpowering what the law enforcement officers have at their disposal.

It made sense to make it a person's right to own firearms to guard his land during the Wild West when the white men were snatching lands from the retaliating Native Americans. In the 21st century, when policing and protecting the citizens is outsourced to the State, can the Second Amendment still be relevant?

The country that considers itself the policeman of the world is impotent when it comes to protecting its own people. The nation that is telling the world how economies should be managed is finding itself dealing with homelessness and decimated family units. Still, people call going to America and living the American way an American dream!

Some victims of the recent Texas shooting. Too young to die.

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As Christchurch cries...

Man is a social animal. He finds comfort in numbers. Generations of living in fear of the elements of Nature and wild creatures have made him develop survival instincts. He had become very comfortable in his 'comfort zone'. His senses heightened when the status quo is disturbed. He becomes agitated when there is cognitive dissonance. Any ideas that questioned his accepted hierarchy and structural make-up of his world are met with violence, the most archaic of his primal defences. 

Scrolling through the 73-page manifesto issued by the Christchurch shooter, Brenton H Tarrant, a 28-year old man full of hate, one can appreciate the loss of space that everybody feels when one has to share his living area. Most sane people would also empathise the plight of legal immigrants (whom he refers to as invaders) and not shoot at them in cold blood. 

Tarrant who labels himself as an eco-fascist believes that all the present world ideologies seem to lead to destruction. The environment is degraded, and consumerism is glorified. The world order is only to fatten the rich. He praises China as the only country that seems to be doing things right. China managed to maintain their lifestyle and not to succumb to the growing pressure of the Muslim population in their backyard. He denigrates Muslim migrants as polluting the Western way of life in Europe, Australia, and the USA. With the persistent decline in the Caucasian birth rate compared to the ever-increasing rates amongst the Muslims, he fears that the 'invaders' would take over the civilisation established by the Europeans. It does not matter if they had systematically eradicated the populace of the Americas, Australasia, and Africa centuries ago.


It is natural to want to protect people who share a similar ideology and history. It is also normal to conform to the majority's decisions when they had decided that visitors were needed in the country. When a person is engaged in a quiet moment with his Maker, it is also the human thing to respect his belief, even if you do not.

To think that a 28-year old man can singlehandedly walk-in cooly to shoot down 50 over people in broad daylight is unbelievable. On top of that, all the stringent measures deployed to keep violence and hate away from social media failed miserably. The perpetrator with ease showcased his dastardly act live on Facebook from his bodycam. He must surely be just a pawn in a chess game of global proportion. Tarrant did all that he did in a clear state of mind without an iota of guilt or hesitations when he shot down women and children. In his mind, a Muslim child dead is many more less in the future when he procreates.

Have we not heard of similar conspiracies before - that group of ultras 'psy-op'ed to carry out the dirty job of the puppetmasters? Is it the work of a lone wolf? Is his manifesto a reflection of people of the time? Diversity and multi-culturalism, do they show weakness or strength? 

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