Mainsailset asked a very pertinent question in a comment on Booman’s Memorial Day post Another One Bites the Dust.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em. The default reaction so pure in its reflex it doesn’t even need a question or a jury to set itself in motion.
Who are we that we have allowed the NRA to flourish and the victims to lay lifeless?
I started a reply that grew into a stand-alone post.
We need a Memorabilia Day.
Read on for more.
Who are we that we have allowed the NRA to flourish and the victims to lay lifeless?
Who are we?
You almost answer your own question in the first sentence, mainsailset.
My version of your post:
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em. The default reaction so pure in its reflex it doesn’t even need congressional approval to set itself in motion.
This violent domestic society is merely an extension of 50+ years of violent foreign policy.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em.
America’s answer to all its problems.
It’s right there in the news for all to see.
It’s in the entertainment media.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em.
Now at your local theater, on your television and in your children’s music and video games!!!
It’s in the headlines.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em.
It’s everywhere we look.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em.
America’s answer to everything.
Shoot ’em. Bomb ’em.
We just celebrated “Memorial” Day.
I propose another holiday.
Memorabilia Day.
A day where we prop up the corpses of our friends and enemies alike, now reduced to memorabilia of our violent past.
Memorabilia Day.
 Oh look!!! There’s Daddy!!!
Memorabilia Day.
An idea whose time has come.
AG
