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Violent Deadly Crime Spree Shoots Upward One

Gun owners indiscriminately brandish loaded firearms toward innocent victims, and concomitantly excite purported in accordance with first amendment, relish yet proliferation allowing free ranging banshee dervish sans weapons of mass destruction (mainly innocent lives) inures citizens to appear off fish U.S., and self-important becoming comfortably numb at regular headlines detailing some lone a bit mish hug ha, an automatic killer methodically unloading with a swish multitudinous cartridges attempt to evening the score, a wish to take revenge viz a personal vendetta amidst the madding crowds - utter oy vay - tis Yiddish. Such proliferation of high-powered assault pistols berserk arc with surging blip bipedal hominid(s) grip with a the hand a dirk in case the clip doth miss the mark, where siege mentality induces nationwide sprint ting infamy to drip metamorphosing into malignant state with curled (Elvis) lip mailer daemon hell bent on besieging bait (unaware nip pee nap noopy snapchatting beings) bursting with deadly quip with a barrage of bullets malicious intent to spray killing machines delivering rip paying deathly howls amidst pandemonium, thence funereal slip epitaphs etched on tombstones proliferate taking souls to Hades trip. More often than not such brutal and nasty team (short lived) nefarious scheme directed at humble lettered people (like those comprising ream member ring my hometown - once evoked with pastoral meme of Lake Woebegone) minding their p's and q's, when in the extreme and out of the blue like a nightmare interrupting an idyllic dream a sudden bitta bing bitta bang rings terrorist catcall followed by red tide and river of bloodying bodied of hue men caskets rendered veneer of dark wood within lies corpse, pistol whipped, where mortician daub with creme. soundcloud boom across thus occurs yet another staccato sinister sonic the pearl jam gray slate of some formerly anonymous name sake, which underline or boss son or daughter of blitzkrieg of shells cross invisible trajectories shatter (at shutterfly speed), the democratic rubric - rendered as dross disposable lives of society with senseless slaughter, whereat somber silence echoes nostalgia for the Mill on the Floss when life seemed so innocent against the gun metal gloss wails of agony at another human loss.

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