One set gasp: "R.I.P." and "Bless the angels who perished" and "My heart goes out with condolences."
Another set gasp: "Where's gun control?" and "Isn't enough enough?"
And in a day or two, TWITTER will be back to its usual bird-brained nonsense. Nothing will change. The NRA is popular, gun owners are jittery about home invasion, and people are just plain stupid about locking up their weapons (the Adam Lanza case). Various states will happily allow people to openly carry weapons, not bother with background checks, and look the other way on Internet sales of assault weapons.
All that we have now, is the morbid curiosity of whether an incident of mass violence breaks any records. Wowie, folks. The Vegas killing tops the Miami killing for "worst gun tragedy in America." SO FAR.
So, despite a lack of effective aggression, some people will still grumble about gun control. Because they have to do SOMETHING to feel better for a little while. Or less angry.
Meanwhile, for a day or two, this incident has pushed aside the valiant brain-damaged millionaires in Spanx, who have taken a knee. We know all about them. At first they did it because the National Anthem was written by a racist and contained secret racist lyrics. When that stuff was disproved, it became, "no, no, we're taking a knee because black people are disproportionately getting shot by police. Especially blacks with police records as long as your arm."
Anyone want to at least toss in two words: Justine Damond? Nah. It's a black thing only. You wouldn't understand. Or care. About a white woman shot dead by a black cop in Minnesota. For no reason. Shit happens.
Let's take the spin away. If you drag your athletic ass over to St. Louis and march in the street after a racial incident, if you drag your athletic ass over to Baltimore, or anywhere that has seen an incident of race relations that offends you, then you are targeting racism. If you take a knee while the National Anthem plays and the flag waves, you are targeting America. The message you're sending is that you can't support this country, period.
The white Liberal millionaire actors and actresses, who go to an awards show and start grousing about their causes, are taking up their own time. They'd rather talk about a social issue than thank their parents and tell their kiddies "you can go to bed now," fine. They aren't disrespecting everything about their country.
Jim Brown, George Foreman and many others have stated that taking a knee for the flag and the National Anthem is simply NOT the way to get things done. The mother of Colin Kaepernick, the guy who started all this, felt the same way. But she's white. So she's part of the problem, as opposed to Colin's black father, who ran away before he was born.
Simply put, marching or taking a knee is not going to eradicate the problem of police violence As long as you have a man in uniform with a gun, and somebody coming toward him with bad intent, or seemingly bad intent, lethal tragedies will happen. Some by accident. Some on purpose.
But taking a knee? It's become a fad, like twerking. It's become ridiculous.
Three possibilities here. One, since this is private property, owners can demand the players abide by rules or leave. Two, the anthem could be retired; who said it has to be played before a sports event anyway? Third, let these people do as they please until they get bored with how useless the protest actually is.
Effective aggression. Taking a knee will not save a single life. Not one.
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