Credo Quia Absurdum Est
translation: I believe it
because it is absurd
(Tertullian, influential
early Christian author, 155-240 A.D.
I live in Kansas City,
Missouri at the present time, an increasingly vibrant and diverse
medium-sized city in the middle of the United States. Unfortunately,
my fair city is in Missouri, a state whose heart seems to reside in
the Old Confederacy and the OK Corral rather than the 21st
century.
Missouri brings to mind the
line from Franz Kafka's novel The Trial published in 1925: “It's
only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of
themselves.”
The Missouri state
legislature, overriding the governor's veto, has recently approved a
bill, which expands our “concealed carry” law. Now, no gun permit
is required, no criminal background check needed and no firearms
training deemed necessary. We're just all lusty, red-blooded yeomen,
you know, like Thomas Jefferson praised in the 18th
century.
Of course Missouri is as
well a major contributor to the expanding dead zone in the Gulf of
Mexico, because of unregulated farming pollution runoff in the
Mississippi river. Welcome to Missouri. Give us your tired and your
deplorables.
Speaking of those
“deplorables,” Hillary Clinton supposedly made a political
mistake when she spoke of the Trump's supporters. Okay, 50% might be
high. Let's say it's only 45 percent that are kind of deplorable,
even though some polls have claimed that something like 60 percent of
the White People's Cult believe that President Obama is a Muslim or
not born in the U.S. or the founder of Isis—well whatever. Time to
buy my gun(s) and protect my castle.
From Missouri with love
For a glimpse of white gun culture in America, see The Guardian video
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