Rage, Racism & Murder: The World of Donald Trump

Rage, the wonderful world of Donald Trump in America.  The number of countries that never have mass shootings is very large, so America stands out. Also, the world in which a mass shooting triggers immediate action by the head of government (think New Zealand) also overwhelms America, the author of “Do-Nothing: Send Thoughts and Prayers”.

What the hell are we to think about this increasingly violent, rage-filled and heavily armed nation? The right wing says it’s all about video games . . . or maybe it’s really all about the mentally ill.  Or maybe we just need to arm more people. Yeah, that’s it, we need more folks armed with assault rifles, so we can have shooting sprees everywhere we go. How about your next elementary school assembly, where all the six-year olds now carry AR-15s? Yeah, that’d stop the mass murderers.

But seriously, what is going on here?

Well, mainly we have lots of folks with motives. Oh, they were there before Donald Trump. But just like Reagan made it ok again to be a racist, Donald Trump has made it ok again to hate and take violent action against “The Other”.  See, he has opened the gates to people acting on their outrage. He asks his crowd of adoring fans, and what should we do to stop them (them being Hispanic immigrants, or Muslims, or just anyone who despises him) and they shout back “Shoot them”.  And what does he do? Well, he laughs.  And now they know that it’s ok to shoot them, anyone they hate.

See, when people murder, they need both a motive and a method.  So, our dear president is supplying them—all who hate and wish to kill—a motive. He is telling them that they are being threatened by “the other” and it is ok to hate them and to act on your hate. No, he never said publically, “well, I suggest that you get your guns and begun killing Hispanics, Muslims, Blacks, et al”. But he acted to incite his crowd to rage and to tell them it’s ok to be violent towards people you hate.

And the Method? Well, clearly, the NRA provides the method. The NRA, and all its members, lobby Congress to prevent anything even remotely sensible about gun control.

It isn’t guns that kill people, it’s people who kill people (wrong NRA, it’s people armed with guns . . . see NRA, guns are the necessary element in a shooting-killing).

All it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun (wrong NRA. The good guys with guns are all over the place, but most of them –cops excepted—hide under the table, or in the bathroom when the bad guy with the guy is doing his thing).

It’s crazy people, not us normal people, doing this killing thing (wrong NRA, because you have personally prevented any legislation aimed at preventing crazy people from owning guns).

We need to arm more people—teachers, students, presumably workers at WalMart, and all workers at Gay bars (wrong NRA, arming the teachers among us, or, heaven forfend the students, will simply trigger more violence, and will likely not stop an armed NRA thug armed with a submachine gun who bursts in the door and just begins shooting anyone in view).

The NRA and its members have no solutions, and they are not in the business of finding solutions. They are in the business of selling guns.  Asking the NRA for help here would be like asking General Motors for help in reducing the number of automobiles sold to the public.

No, the NRA is definitely part of the problem, not part of the solution.  In fact, we should seek out information on which members of Congress receive money from the NRA, or any of its disguised, black money affiliates. Any such Congressperson should have an immediate negative campaign launched against him or her.

And what, if anything, does this crap have to do with the Second Amendment? Well, really, nothing. The so-called Second Amendment was intended to sustain state militias, not individual members of the public? And what does it have to do with the right to own weapons for personal use, e.g., hunting? Well, again, nothing. There is no plausible use for assault weapons to protect one’s home, or to hunt game, even big game.  These weapons should be taken off the market and removed from all private ownership. Assault weapons should be bought back from private citizens and then destroyed. And then all such weapons should be banned for sale, except to the military, or formally organized, armed police forces. Within days of the killing in New Zealand, such legislation had been passed and the guns were removed and destroyed.

But here, the NRA argues to its members that they must resist such efforts by the government, on the basis that the government is the reason citizens must arm themselves. Their argument essentially, is that government is always potentially evil, and must be resisted.  Yet, all evidence points in exactly the opposite direction. That is, our government is relatively benign, when compared with the fairly crazed NRA advocates, and the folks shooting up innocents in public places.  It is, in fact, the NRA and its advocates who are the problem regarding violence.

The NRA has now reached the point that we should consider designating it as an agent of domestic terrorism.  The NRA members should really consider seriously letting go of their membership, and themselves lobbying for banning domestic assault weapons of all kinds for sale to anyone. The NRA is not ISIS, mind you. It is not the NRA itself that is going around shooting innocent civilians. And no one is suggesting that it is. However, the NRA is but one step from that stage.  And it doesn’t matter anyway. The NRA has officially supplied the means and its members have taken up the empty spaces and filled them with domestic terrorists.

Now you can ask why ordinary citizens, even ones armed with such weapons, would commit such unspeakable violence upon innocent people? Well, fairly clearly, they are unhinged.  But, more to the point, they are people who are insecure to the point of terror. Yes, they are clearly terrified individuals, who have been taught that certain other people are responsible for all the problems they have personally, or fear they may have.  The Other, they have been told repeatedly, are acting now to take away their jobs, rape their sisters, and destroy this fair land in which they live. That, friends, is the constant rhetoric adopted by our pseudo-President, Donald Trump. He claimed his office through means, fair or foul, but he obtained that office through a campaign of hate against “The Other”.  He is all about HATE, because HATE gains him supporters, supporters who are devoted, and loyal, mainly because they have stopped thinking.

The Donald claims he is the least racist person in the world. Clearly, again he is lying. How does one know Donald Trump is lying? Well, whenever he opens his mouth and words begin tumbling out, he is lying. And so long as he can continue spewing his hate-filled rhetoric against “The Other”, his supporters will continue killing innocent people. That trend will only slow down, if not stop, when Donald Trump and his legislative band of thugs, is removed from the public scene. And we don’t do that by killing them. We do that by VOTING people.  Voting is the mechanism of civilized people. Guns and killing are the mechanisms of thugs. So, how long will we tolerate thugs running our government? We will see. We will see.