Don't Waste Your Ammunition...

Eleven people are dead in Pittsburgh.

And for the next few hours, days, maybe a week or two, you're going to hear the usual cacophony of piousness and platitudes, ranging from the predictable, now cliche, call for "thoughts and prayers" to the predictable, now cliche cries for gun control.

Here's what I suspect you won't hear anywhere else but right here.

For the time being, debate, discussion, even conversation about this latest in the predictable, now cliche', expectation of random mass shooting deaths is a waste of time.

Tom Wolf, the Governor of Pennsylvania, tweeted the following just a few hours ago.

"...This is an absolute tragedy. These senseless acts of violence are not who we are as Americans...."

The tweet continues for a sentence or two, but the first of the two part senselessness is pretty much covered by that excerpt.

And the second part of the two parts?

As I just said, the senselessness of debating, discussing, even conversing on the subject of this shooting, those deaths and those yet to come.

And here's why it's a senseless waste of time.

The Governor is right.

This is, in fact, an absolute tragedy. 

And the Governor is wrong.

Because as long as the Congress of the United States is in bondage to the checkbooks of the NRA, gun manufacturers and any and/or all interests, special or other wise, that profit from the sale of weapons and weapon accessories.......

...and as long as the White House is the residence of a man who has no moral compass, no intention whatsoever of leading a unified nation, who has, does and will continue to incite bigotry, prejudice, hatred and violence, endorsed, supported, cheered, even celebrated by rally halls full of  bigots, haters and potentially violent excuses for human beings, calling themselves supporters, but simply putting lipstick on a pig named lynch mob......

as long as....and until that, and they, are stopped.......

Due respect, Governor Wolf, you're wrong.

What happened today in Pennsylvania is, in fact, who we are as Americans.

Those who endorse, support, cheer, even celebrate a lynch mob leader and his outlaw gang.

And those who continue to allow the lynch mob to walk the streets.

Eleven people are dead in Pittsburgh.

Same shit, different shooter.