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  1. The NEW Soylent Green

    A Moses-like figure stands before the mic at an NRA convention and thunders, “I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”

    At the end of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, that same actor implores his detective boss to spread the news, “Soylent Green is people!”

    In the movie, as the corpses pile up from an overcrowded, miserable earth, they are carted away in garbage trucks, secretly converted to Soylent Green, and fed back to the living. Soylent Green is better than the old Red and Yellow varieties, but it is scarce, so there are riots. A detective played by Charlton Heston discovers the deception. In a word, humanity has become cannibals, feeding upon itself, in a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

    Such is the world created by the NRA. It plays upon the irrational fears of a few to continue to thwart common sense gun legislation. Its largely successful lobbying over the years has distorted the original intention of the Second Amendment so much so that it has become almost impossible to pass laws more in keeping with the Founders’ intent.

    When the bodies continue to pile up as a result of gun violence, and there is no legislative change primarily due to the lobbying of the NRA and the like, we are in every sense of the word disrespecting the dead and feeding upon ourselves.

    In a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

    Like in Soylent Green.

    And like the movie, the end result is not very pretty.

    But go ahead. Watch the news.

    Take another bite.

    June 23, 2014

     

    #2ndAmmendment #AmericanGunCulture #cannibalisticSociety #CharltonHeston #commonSenseGunLaws #cultureOfFear #cyclicalViolence #deathAndPolitics #Dystopia #Film #gunControl #GunViolence #legislativeParalysis #massShootings #moralOutrage #newsCommentary #NRA #politicalLobbying #propheticWriting #publicPolicy #Satire #SecondAmendment #socialCritique #socialDecay #SoylentGreen #stateSanctionedViolence #Violence #violenceInAmerica
  2. The NEW Soylent Green

    A Moses-like figure stands before the mic at an NRA convention and thunders, “I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”

    At the end of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, that same actor implores his detective boss to spread the news, “Soylent Green is people!”

    In the movie, as the corpses pile up from an overcrowded, miserable earth, they are carted away in garbage trucks, secretly converted to Soylent Green, and fed back to the living. Soylent Green is better than the old Red and Yellow varieties, but it is scarce, so there are riots. A detective played by Charlton Heston discovers the deception. In a word, humanity has become cannibals, feeding upon itself, in a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

    Such is the world created by the NRA. It plays upon the irrational fears of a few to continue to thwart common sense gun legislation. Its largely successful lobbying over the years has distorted the original intention of the Second Amendment so much so that it has become almost impossible to pass laws more in keeping with the Founders’ intent.

    When the bodies continue to pile up as a result of gun violence, and there is no legislative change primarily due to the lobbying of the NRA and the like, we are in every sense of the word disrespecting the dead and feeding upon ourselves.

    In a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

    Like in Soylent Green.

    And like the movie, the end result is not very pretty.

    But go ahead. Watch the news.

    Take another bite.

    June 23, 2014

     

    #2ndAmmendment #AmericanGunCulture #cannibalisticSociety #CharltonHeston #commonSenseGunLaws #cultureOfFear #cyclicalViolence #deathAndPolitics #Dystopia #Film #gunControl #GunViolence #legislativeParalysis #massShootings #moralOutrage #newsCommentary #NRA #politicalLobbying #propheticWriting #publicPolicy #Satire #SecondAmendment #socialCritique #socialDecay #SoylentGreen #stateSanctionedViolence #Violence #violenceInAmerica
  3. "There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms….. Americans love guns, and appear willing to pay the price in blood."

    ~ Stephen King

    #guns #MassShootings #violence #AssaultRifles #AmericanExceptionalism #WhiteChristianNationalism

    nytimes.com/2023/10/27/opinion

  4. Less than 5 days ago, I wrote a letter to Rep Dingell, Sen Stabenow, & Sen Peters on the #MassShooting in Cleveland, Texas & the facts of #MassShootings, #AssaultRifles, #HighCapacityMagazines, & #GunControl. Since then there have been 17 more shootings. The avg is now 1.74/day.

    Today I sent it again for #AllenTexas. (see first letter @ facebook.com/thedavid.mfano/po)

    Now it is your turn. Contact your representatives by going to usa.gov/elected-officials

    #guns #GunControlNow #gunviolence #AR15 #news

  5. I wrote a letter to Rep Debbie Dingell, Sen Debbie Stabenow, & Sen Gary Peters on the facts of #MassShootings, #AssaultRifles, #HighCapacityMagazines, and #GunControl and I posted it on Facebook because of 500 char limit here (facebook.com/thedavid.mfano/po).

    Now it is your turn (feel free to copy and paste my letter as you see fit). Contact your representatives by starting at usa.gov/elected-officials

    #guns #GunControlNow #gunviolence #AR15

  6. As more communities reel from deadly #MassShootings – including #Dadeville, #Alabama, where 4 people were killed & 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the #trauma of #GunViolence in the #UnitedStates is taking a collective toll on the nation’s #MentalHealth.

    #AmericanGunCulture #NRA #GunsOverPeople
    cnn.com/2023/04/17/health/mass

  7. As more communities reel from deadly #MassShootings – including #Dadeville, #Alabama, where 4 people were killed & 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the #trauma of #GunViolence in the #UnitedStates is taking a collective toll on the nation’s #MentalHealth.

    #AmericanGunCulture #NRA #GunsOverPeople
    cnn.com/2023/04/17/health/mass

  8. As more communities reel from deadly #MassShootings – including #Dadeville, #Alabama, where 4 people were killed & 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the #trauma of #GunViolence in the #UnitedStates is taking a collective toll on the nation’s #MentalHealth.

    #AmericanGunCulture #NRA #GunsOverPeople
    cnn.com/2023/04/17/health/mass

  9. As more communities reel from deadly #MassShootings – including #Dadeville, #Alabama, where 4 people were killed & 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the #trauma of #GunViolence in the #UnitedStates is taking a collective toll on the nation’s #MentalHealth.

    #AmericanGunCulture #NRA #GunsOverPeople
    cnn.com/2023/04/17/health/mass

  10. As more communities reel from deadly #MassShootings – including #Dadeville, #Alabama, where 4 people were killed & 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the #trauma of #GunViolence in the #UnitedStates is taking a collective toll on the nation’s #MentalHealth.

    #AmericanGunCulture #NRA #GunsOverPeople
    cnn.com/2023/04/17/health/mass