The Last of the Funerals

“the last of the funerals” today “the last of the funerals” takes place & the killings in CT get placed on the shelf, alongside the deaths at Columbine, Virginia Tech... those were the “big ones” right? well, now, Aurora was a “big one,” right? but it didn’t happen in a school, hmmm…but 12 died & 59 were injured--- still, everybody can attribute that to the fact that the kid had orange hair, liked the Joker & since he did it at the opening of a film, it made the whole bloodbath almost cinematic for those in the nation who didn’t die there or weren’t affected personally by the dead & injured, right? sure seemed like a dvd extra to the new Batman film, the way the media flashed his picture in that courtroom over & over & over & over & over & over & over & over, every hour on the hour. still, isn’t it true that 3 kids were killed on 2/27/12 at Chardon High School in Ohio when Thomas Lane blew them away? (but he was caught & he only used a .22 in doing so, in some rural town…so it must not have been dramatic enough? yeah, he must not have packed enough hardware.) & what about One L. Goh’s killing of 7 in April at Oikos University in Cali, where he shot nursing students “execution style” up against a wall? (but he was 43 years old & ended up surrendering later at a Safeway, having used a .45 semi-auto handgun, so… still must not have been dramatic enough? he was 43, over the hill, definitely not sexy enough.) do you remember hearing about those? were those killings media-buzz-clip-newsworthy? & how about the killings on 2/22/12 in Norcross, Georgia (5 dead), or 2/26/12 in Jackson, Tenn. (1 dead, 20 inj.), or 3/8/12 in Pittsburgh, Penn. (2 dead, 7 inj.). or 3/31/12 in North Miami, FL (2 dead, 12 inj.), or 4/6/12 in Tulsa, OK (3 dead, 2 inj.), or 5/29/12 in Seattle, WA (5 dead), or 7/9/12 in Wilmington, DE (3 dead), or 8/5/12 in Milwaukee, WI (6 dead), or 8/14/12 in Texas near A&M (3 dead), or 9/27/12 in Minn., MN (5 dead, 3 inj.), or 10/21/12 in Brookfield, WI (3 dead, 4 inj.), or 12/11/12 in Portland, OR (2 dead)? hmmm…maybe the body count wasn’t big enough to catch the eye of the six o’clock & the eleven o’clock as well? SO, AMERICA, DO YOU THINK MORE GUNS IS THE ANSWER? (think this will be “the last of the funerals?”) SO, AMERICA, DO YOU THINK “GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS IS THE ANSWER? (just who exactly are the “good guys?”) blame it on video games. blame it on music videos. blame it on horror movies. right, mr. NRA? mr. cowboy-gotta-hard-on-whenever-there’s- a-pistol-around? just like those who see the increasing tropical storms & increasing mass drought & then say there is no such thing as global warming, this america watches the wave of violence growing within the belly of its empire & then says that there is nothing wrong with the increasing tension, stress, oppression & struggle, brought on by the preference of profit over people, giving rise to it all.