A Public Service

 I only spend 23 minutes in the laundromat these days thanks to my new policy of hanging my clothes to dry indoors, but 23 minutes was long enough to perform a very necessary act of resistance. On the reading rack, I found a fresh copy of a periodical called, "GUN NEWS". It had been untouched by other human hands. I put it in my back pocket to keep it from falling into impressionable minds. I like to help out wherever I can. 

It was chock full of pedantic gun lover bullshit. The headline story was about how Chicago's black mayor, Brandon Johnson, has an armed security force of 150- and YOU DON'T. Well, I don't know if that figure is accurate, and I don't really care. I do know that this is likely the case with all big city mayors. I also know that the NRA crowd objected to Barack Obama having armed security (the Secret Service) when he was POTUS and YOU DIDN'T. They really did. I wondered in 2016 if Trump would be the first US president to boldly fiscally responsibly fire the Secret Service, strap on a .45 semi-auto and go it alone in public- LIKE YOU DO. Man, they sure talk like he could. But he didn't. I think I know why!

Now, whatever Johnson actually has for security is surely Chicago cops who, by law, are armed. It goes with the job. The NRA and their ilk probably do realize this, but they are one of those organizations whose existence is strongly abetted by what they don't see and say in public. I must note that the NRA, which has long claimed the duty of citizens proclaimed by the Second Amendment, was and is to combat a tyrannical government, has not sent a single round downrange to thwart this second Trump regime in its tyrannical endeavors. I think they were bluffing and just pimping munitions for fun and profit all these years, but maybe that's just me. 

The rest of the newspaper was filled with stories about crimes committed around the country by brown immigrants and indigenous black Americans (which kinda sorta sounds like they think these crimes should be the dominion of white, Christian Americans- maybe) and fluff pieces about how to shoot better and where in your area to do it. 

Granted, this publication is geared towards the small minority of gun nuts who can't take their garbage to the curb in their 100% safe neighborhood without at least an ankle pistol to thwart an invasion of liberal transgenders- that could happen at anytime... but there are a lot of those folks. My snagging the copy was just my honest effort to keep that minority from expanding. There is a lot I like about guns. I've owned and handled guns for years. Guns are not my purpose in life, not my heart and soul, and certainly not my dick. And like my dick- or yours- they shouldn't fall into impressionable hands. Let's all stay safe out there. This country is full of dicks.