With these kinds of laws, I'm seeing...
- many abusive husbands being killed (culled?)--expeditiously (execution style?);
- chaotic club shootouts becoming more common;
- instances of road rage ending in tears;
- the collapse of the American tourism industry;
- a spike in imperfect self-defense sentencing;
- manslaughter, womanslaughter, childslaughter;
- broken lives, broken families--the disappearance of the middle class;
- gun-free gated communities, where prosperity feeds off the blood of the downtrodden; and
- many other prophetic visions of a paranoid American public.
Tyler Durden: "What's that smell?"
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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