All the little gatekeepers

 On a mild spring Saturday in upstate New York, eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron decided it was time to act on the manifesto he had posted to 4chan.  He put on his helmet and body armor, collected his legally-acquired weaponry and drove two hundred miles from Conklin to Buffalo, the nearest city with a significant Black population.  Arriving at Tops Supermarket around 2:30 he opened fire.  When he stopped several minutes later thirteen people had been shot, eleven of them Black.  Ten would eventually die.  Gendron had thoughtfully attached a camera to his helmet to livestream the fun to his friends on Twitch.

 One of his role-models was Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.  The rest of the manifesto, according to NBC's psycho-whisperer Ben Collins, was pretty much straight Tucker Carlson/Great Replacement/critical race theory argle-bargle, the usual Jewish plot.  According to Collins, Gendron was specific about his plans last Thursday, but at that point he was only exercising his First Amendment rights.  The Second would come later.

(Read in high-pitched Baby Tuckoo voice):  "I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement,' if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World."  Who still uses the term "third world"?  Carlson's fellow trust-fund baby Tom Buchanan called them "the colored empires."  He read a book once.

I know ten people who won't vote at all this year.  One witness, Grady Lewis, spoke for all:  "There will be candles, probably have a march, some preaching.  But nothing that needs to be done is going to be done."  On the contrary.  California passed a law prohibiting the sale of semiautomatic weapons to  anyone under 21, like Payton Gendron.  Last week Judge Ryan D. Nelson struck it down, as it "infringed on the Second Amendment rights of those 18-21."  He cited "the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army," which is going back to pre-Second Amendment times.  Clearly an Originalist.  Moscow Mitch, take notice.