What's wrong with me?

(First of a series, probably.)

I awake to the news that an AR-15 with a sociopath attached has killed ten people in a Boulder supermarket.  The sociopath's name is Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, he was born in Syria, he left a social media post referencing Allah.  

My first thought:  Here we go again.

My second thought:  Maybe the Asians will get a break for a while.

Earlier this month the NRA celebrated its victory in getting a judge to overturn Boulder's ban on "commonly-owned rifles (AR-15s) and 10+ round mags."  Yippee.  How many other sociopaths went shopping?  In Boulder and elsewhere in Colorado, like the charming town of Rifle (let it go) where Rep. Lauren Boebert's bar and grill with fully armed waitstaff and no damn masks welcomes you.  Rep. Boebert made with the thoughts and prayers and then sent out a fundraising tweet, as you do.

It looks like Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa decided to arm himself last week.  His brother calls him "paranoid."

Ted Cruz is fed up.  Not like normal humans but in a Ted Cruz way:  "Every time there is a shooting we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders," he groused to the Judiciary Committee.  Only prayer will stop these murders according to Cruz, and he has a bottomless bucket to fling:  "I believe in the power of prayer.  The contempt of Democrats for prayer is an odd sociological thing."  So stop asking Ted to give a shit or do his job, and unleash the sociologists to find out why Democrats keep trying to take guns away from paranoid Syrian immigrants and "soft-spoken" Christians like Robert Long.  (In case you forgot already, the Atlanta "sex-addicted" spree killer.)

In all the excitement you probably missed this cute little story out of Ted's home state of Texas.  Outside Idalou (let it go) Larry Lee Harris of Arizona decided that three trucks filled with unarmed Texas National Guard were involved in human trafficking (a recognized Q obsession) and forced them off the road.  He then pointed a gun at the guardsmen and demanded to search their vee-hicles, which were in fact delivering covid vaccine to the town of Matador.  No one was hurt and Larry Lee has been returned to his ZZ Top tribute band.

Calling it "a normal we can no longer afford," Barack Obama said, "A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country."  The poor man obviously hasn't seen the Gun Violence Archive.  Covid hasn't put a dent in shootings; it has only relocated them away from movie theaters and outdoor concerts.  It has also distracted the newsertainment people, who prefer video of syringes in arms to bodies on gurneys. 

No matter how many times they show him the video -- and now I'm thinking about Alex's "therapy" in A Clockwork Orange -- Ron Johnson can't see any insurrectionary violence, at least on the Senate side.  You know, where they were yelling "Hang Mike Pence!"  Maybe he should get his vision checked by someone other than Rand Paul.

Kristi Noem knows the problem isn't covid or guns or racism or climate change or fill in the blank.  It's keeping transgender athletes out of women's sports.  She's gonna ride that one to the White House, probably.  No doubt god comes into it somewhere.  

Want to pay even more for even slower mail?  Louis DeJoy will make it happen.  Exactly why has Biden not extracted this thumb-head from the USPS?

So in conclusion -- and by the way I am fed up with people who start every sentence with "so" -- why am I alternately suicidal and filled with rage?  What's wrong with me?