Here We Go Again...

So there was another assassination attempt on Saturday. The fact that it's now Tuesday and I'm writing about it lets you know where we are as a country, right?

I mean, after it happened and he was calling for his ballroom right afterwards I was like...okay so was this a set up? And I swear to whatever deity you believe in I did not used to be a conspiracy theorist, but now I'm like is every day a false flag operation?

It looks like, no, this wasn't a false flag, it wasn't a setup for his ballroom blitz, it was a guy who had reached his breaking point and then broke. And because we live in a country where you can go to the corner gun store and load up, these things happen.

And the media debates security measures, and if a ballroom would have worked and where they were when it all went down, and nobody seems to say, you know what the problem is? THE GUNS.

So yeah, just another day in the USA. This time the target was someone we should pay more attention to, I guess? I mean, I get the idea that political violence says something ugly, but the fact that nobody was hurt in this attempt because of all of the security while there were seven mass shootings (more than 3 people shot) over the past 72 hours that aren't getting any press means we don't really care about the violence right? (and, I mean, there are 8 pages to look through that are filled with ones and twos as well. EIGHT PAGES for 72 hours)

I mean, we can't care if it keeps happening and we are talking about ballrooms.

I keep saying I don't talk about gun control anymore, and I don't. I do still talk about gun violence because it's impossible to avoid. I'd like to not talk about it. I really would. I'd also like to live in a world where an attempt on the president's life can be met without a look at the suspicious timing.

But I don't live in that world either. I live in a world where school children hide under their desks and in cloakrooms during active shooter drills. I live in a world where cartilage heals. I live in a world where I had to look through eight pages of shootings to count how many had three or more victims.

It's not the lack of a ballroom that is the problem.

We all know it.
We just don't talk about it.