The public media has been consumed with the shooting and killing of the 31-year-old, Conservative rising star, Charlie Kirk, at the start of his scheduled speaking engagement at Utah Valley University. The FBI and local enforcement agencies have, as usual, been tasked with informing the public about the circumstances of the criminal act and the steps to be taken to identify and apprehend the individual. Anecdotally, the youthful shooter turned himself in to authorities at the request of his family.
The tragic event seems to have consumed the greater part of the media’s time, relevant to the perceived impact of historically attempted and realized political assassinations, the latter, the empirical result of the tactical misreading of the language and intended scope of the Second Amendment. (See: plinyblog # M.357 “Occam s Razor”).
Disseminated photos of the apprehended killer appear to evince an expressionless, hypnotic, “wax museum-like” face; one, entirely undisturbed by the mere scintilla of human emotion or nuance, but rather of an expressionless and dull young man, as distinguised from one resembling the passion of a post-political assassin.
Personal nuance aside, we are shocked and dismayed at the occurrence of the event, and even further confirmed in our principled opposition to the misapprehended, but popularly held, belief in the universally acceptable constitutional franchise to own guns. As previously stated, guns have the sole utility to kill or maim other human beings; it is ineluctably deniable that the Founding Fathers intended to grant a franchise to all citizens of the new Republic, to be “gunslingers.”
We are greatly relieved and thankful that none of the pro-gun adherents has extolled or praised the confident skill and acumen to accomplish the tragic event with a single rifle bullet. Because we detest guns, we are systemically unable to grant kudos to the shooter for this unprecedented act. We are intellectually, morally, and emotionally thankful and relieved in principle that no one has publicly recognized the singular, demonstrated skill and confidence of this emotionless, zombie-like shooter.
We are unhappy, nevertheless, at the irrational and tactical designation of the mortal event as “Terrorism,” presumably intending to make somewhat more palatable, the constitutionally abusive, autocratic policy of utilizing the military for private policing purposes. One man is not a terrorist cell, even in the wide and ubiquitous scope of absurdity relative to the Trump-MAGA horde of populist reductionists
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