Reckoning

 I want to reiterate my stance here and now before I begin my tirade: No one deserves to be shot. I am firm in this belief much in the same way that I am a supporter of this thing called Restorative Justice. All of the loopholes like the "Stand Your Ground" laws found in some states, including the one in which I live, No one should have to die. 

Now I hear a voice from my past, the one that shouted in my ear insisting that if someone raped and murdered my mother I would surely be locked and loaded for that individual. A pause, a deep breath, and then the question that I did not ask at that time in response, "Why would you even think of this as some kind of litmus?" Like the sickest possible version of "Never Have I Ever," a co-worker of mine whose politics skewed several degrees to the right of my own seemed to take a certain degree of pleasure mining my resolve. Eventually I replied that I would hope and expect that as difficult as that situation would be that I would rise above my simian urges for revenge and instead seek out a resolution that didn't involve taking one more life. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that my mother would back me up on that. 

So the stage is set. Now I will say that I can understand why the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has had as many attempts made on his life as he has. This past weekend a young man carrying a gas can and a shotgun attempted entry into the "Southern White House" and was shot and killed by Secret Service Agents. This brings the alleged attempts on the convicted felon's life to three in the course of less than two years. While my disapproval jives pretty consistently with the poll numbers found  in and around this great land of ours. I will say that the white guy with a gun model hasn't done much to conflate the images put out by the twice impeached "president's" handlers of Antifa assassins coming to assassinate the last best hope of making 'merica great again. 

As a a matter fact, the current occupant of the ruins of the White House has been the target of more assassination attempts than any other previous chief executive of the United States, especially when you include the envelopes of ricin sent along in that first term. It does seem as though there are quite a few people who would like the former game show host dead. 

Again, I cannot stress this enough, no one deserves to die. That is not up to us as mere mortals. The reckoning awaits, not from those with access to guns and ammo, but to a ballot. 

But more on that later...