The season's upon us

So the NRA dude wants armed guards at every school. Good promotional attempt to sell more guns and more membership cards, because more armed guards means more legal guns and then more National Riffle Association members.

The gun debate will never be solved in the USA because of emotions and the near-blind reading of the constitution. But besides this great divide, have a think at the beyond-realistic approach from the NRA following the Newton massacre. If organizations like the NRA can’t come up with some social-logic responses to what is clearly a serious issue, then they turn into cavemen spin-doctors of insanity.

An armed gunman at every school. Which then I guess the NRA also thinks and means that every guard will have decent training to know how to shoot and how to respond to dramatic situations. That’s already a serious obstacle. Guards + guns does absolutely not mean automatically extra security. 

But OK, let them believe that. Armed guards at every school across the USA. And then… there is automatically a “what’s next”-situation. Armed guards at every public library? At every public swimming pool? At every train station? At every bus terminal? And every ferry terminal? At every clinic? At every sports event? At every cultural event? At every church and other religious temples? At every mall? At every cinema complex? And the list goes on and on and on….

It is not realistic. The NRA got stuck in a corner after the Newton killing spree and could only came up with this ridiculous solution? Does this say something about the IQ level of NRA members?

Without going into political and emotional sliproads, there is clearly something wrong in the US with gun ownership. Crazy figures. Access to guns seem easier than access to beer.

Human behavior can be caveman-like. Let’s kill to that!

But meanwhile Newton want be the same again. Bloodstains schools and haunting memories. But politically we know that nothing really will change and thus that we are simply on a path to another shoot out. Countdown to the next massacre of innocence. There is something about gung-ho mentality across America.  Gangnam-Style of trigger happy cowboys.

And then amidst the political debates, heartbreaking funerals, TV shows and newspaper opinion pieces, came a statement from the terrorist nutters of Boko Haram from Nigeria advising its members not to travel the USA because of trigger happy madman here and there. Amazing how an organization that drives suicide-bombers into churches can pen down such words.

Human behavior is not base don braincell activity.

Meanwhile back in South Africa, where there are also trigger happy madmen, a airforce pilot has been grounded for “borrowing” a jet to visit a friend in neighbouring Botswana. These kind of “borrowing”, don’t they get some decent punishments in normal armies? Court martial stuff etc.?

Meanwhile still in the South African defence force a female officer got reprimanded because she went shopping in uniform but wearing…. pink slippers. Tough GI Janes they got there in South Africa!!!!!

Human behavior is just a pink slipper away.

Also in the news across the globe. Syria’s journey of bloodshed continues. But Moscow has send a ship nearby to be ready to evacuate its citizens. Has Putin given up on butcher Al Assad? More pedophilia reports in the UK. France regrets its “brutal” rule in Algeria. South Sudan shoots down a UN chopper…. by mistake. Somali Pirates release crewmen they held for 2 years. White extremists caught before they could attack the gathering of the African National Congress in South Africa. Floods in England. Cries of child abuse, as David Beckham’s 10-year-old son becomes a fashion model. Putin wants to revive Russia’s pride. Another Afghani invasion unlikely but some military rock and roll in Chechnya maybe…

Human behavior is guided by that moment. It could be a moment of grand vision; a moment of insanity; a drunken moment; a moment in history where foes come together for a blitz moment; a moment of forgiveness; a moment of realization; a moment of pain and suffering; an out-of-focus moment.

Throw Out. “The season’s upon us”. That’s right and Boston lads Dropkick Murphys puts it in perspective and in this track which feature son their upcoming January 2013 release “Signed and sealed in blood”.

C-Ya

Collateral – December 2012