It has happened again. This time it was at the office of a newspaper in Maryland. A man with a gun came in and killed 5 people. I’m guessing it was a white man, because he’s in police custody. We’ll know more by tomorrow, like his name and whether neighbors say “he was a quiet man, he seemed so normal,” or “oh, yeah, we knew he was loopy, we’d reported him to the police many times.” Like whether he was a disgruntled former employee, (which is the standard in these cases) or maybe had had a bad breakup with somebody who works for the paper, or maybe it was just kind of random.
I did see one theory posted on Facebook and I hope it’s wrong, because it bodes very badly for the future, but I can’t shake the feeling that maybe that’s it. The post pointed out that Trump has been vigorously denouncing the press lately, and referring to them as the enemy (which certainly seems to be how Sarah Huckabee Sanders feels).
Maybe the gunman took Trump’s words to heart? If this were ‘The Fisher King’ that would make Trump the Jeff Bridges character. Will he feel the same guilt? I sure doubt it.
Another Day, Another Mass Shooting
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