Cuttings Cast God's Eye Upon Ye Earthly Plague

Holy England be ye lands largest maker and seller of ye blades'o'death, ye Axe.  But yet, that land's free ways with Axe provision hath disturbed bile 'mongst  her noble neighbors. Verily, all lands face wrath from such harsh tool.

Ye aft-Sabbath slaughter in ye academy o' ye Queen's holy library, offering a score and thirteen souls to our Holy Lord,  were ample display o' ye plague which ye axe doth visit upon our realms.   Sadly, ye knight, black be his array, didst fall upon the unarmored supplicants.

"Mother England doth stand as example and exemplar o' ye plague o' Axe" crieth Alun, o' ye House o' Howard, advocate for the Many Lands Guild o' Axe Removal, as told this, thy humble crier.

Ye King offers boon to the people, and defends all Axe needs in his balcony address on these, ye day o' woe.

"As befits our suit, ye king holds to ye use of Axe as tool and implement of righteous justice" cried ye King's fool.  "Yet all must obey Kingly dictate forsooth in all matters.  That one must pay for defying ye King's pleasure holds without doubt, for ye King's will stands in affront."

Ye Guild o' Axemen, garnering support oft useful peasantry to whom ye Axe be icon, tarried in taxing ye King's will, nor that o' any other, and post letter stating their sorrow in face of ye Black Knight's use o' Axe.

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I was going to do the whole thing, and probably shoulda.   But I'm really too tired to try.    The upshot of the whole thing is that America has a gun culture that we're exporting to the rest of the world.    No kidding.   What's missing from this article is that America has birthed something that can't be revoked.  We can't, we won't, just remove shooting from our lives.  Nor should we.  The rest of the world has to figure out it's own way of dealing with guns.  We obviously haven't figured it out for ourselves.  But trying to lay the burden of a world epidemic of guns in our lap is just stupid ... silly ... counter-productive.

I think I was so pissed at the outcome of yesterday's events in Virginia because I saw this coming, on so many levels.  Agendas trump human life; always have and likely always will.  For now, let's deal with our own black knights, and let the rest of the world deal with theirs.

Comments

[Erox]

Yeah I saw it coming too.

A mentally disturbed guy kills how many people with a gun... I dunno, ya think that MAYBE the problem wasn't the gun, but that maybe he was mentally disturbed?

I'm thinking the problem with our so-called "gun culture" is that not enough people carry guns. How many people would he have killed if they all started shooting back?

Europe and their long bloody history should be the LAST place on earth to point fingers at us.

[Big Swede]

England has a short memory. In 1940 they pleaded with us to send them weapons to help them defend their island. We responded quickley-sending many thousands of rifles. Even the NRA sent 7000 enfields overseas so civilians could protect their homes.

[Dilton]

It is nice to see some sensible people are showing up here. But there is no telling what irrational and obscene spew they will have to endure from the blog owner.