Well, that escalated quickly (or how the NRA went from lobbyist org to terrorist org in one easy commercial)

O hai. I'm back. I know, you're thrilled.

Truth is, I haven't been writing a whole lot about things that have been going on, because it's gotten me too damn depressed. That, and I've been hella busy with life, because, well, life. That's also had me kind of depressed. Frankly, I can only yell "FUCK YOU!" at everyone, everything, and the Universe so many times before I grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually hoarse.

Anyway, this gun insanity. I wrote a small thing this morning, and I'm putting it here, too, because I'm genuinely disgusted not only with the NRA (I mean, not that I wasn't before, but this has gone too far) but with everyone who's decided that gun control = "THEY'RE A-COMIN' FER MAH GUUUUNNNNNNS!" as opposed to, you know, limiting the amount of damage that can be done by limiting access to machines that are only designed to kill human beings as opposed to, say, dinner. So here:

(If you're wondering, it has to do with this in specific: The latest from the NRA, which everyone should be really, truly, and genuinely terrified by.)

Oh, but they don't endorse violence.

This? This -is- violence. This is mental and emotional abuse. The aim is to create self-styled soldiers fighting against an imaginary foe working to undermine Americans' freedoms. This is the sort of thing that's -encouraging- the violence that we've already seen among paranoid survivalist groups and neo-Nazis. It's a desperate bid for support from a lobbyist group who's losing left, right, and center.

How is this okay? Please, enlighten me. We're at a point in social history where we're talking about the idea of arming teachers and having guns in -churches-. We're talking about allowing for the potential of bloodshed in the last bastions of innocence, rather than talking about getting to and eradicating the root causes of the problems. 

The roots aren't in mental health, either, so don't even try that one. They're in the altogether manufactured illusion that certain groups of people have become marginalized, have had their voices taken away -- when all people who have actually been marginalized historically have worked to do is level the playing field. And you know who's creating that illusion? Folks like the one who made this ad.

We're supposed to be better than this. We're supposed to have evolved.

We -are- better than this, as long as we have the courage to allow ourselves to be. We don't need this divisiveness anymore. Please, please don't feed it.