Still, since gun violence slayed nine black civilians in Charleston and five white military personnel in Chattanooga:
* A Tea Party member, and emulating disciple of Hitler, who thought women should be silent in church (except Westboro Baptist Church membership crying out sexual slurs that would make a Kenyan President stand in ovation), shot to death two, wounding nine, in a Louisiana movie theater - in the state governed by the NRA's #1 choice for Guns Rule, in the White House.
* Citrus Florida Road rage: fifty-one year old white Robert Doyle in jail for shooting to death forty-four year old Hispanic Candelerio Gonzalez in front of his wife and children.
It seems Death no longer waits for us to catch up with the need for reasonable background checks or the realization that, racially, some are still in the midst of an uncivil war, employing sneak attacks and killing too fast for the media droned, to keep score.
Nor will Death compromise with, ALL Lives Matter, without our first acknowledging: even before 1776, darker skinned lives mattered far less, to far too many -- especially when even now, Windows 10's edited TV ad, predicting a great future, features only white babies.
Still think Atticus Finch is the problem? Donald Trump the hero? Father's teaching their sons how to be snipers, the solution?
President Uhuru Kenyatta scoffs at Gay Rights, proclaiming human rights is really a non-issue in Kenya , while standing next to Kenya's Favorite Son, the man John Russell Houser of Phenix City, Alabama hated most, Barack Obama.
Still can't see our reflection in Kenyatta and Houser?
Behold the Pale Horse comes also for haters, domestic terrorists, bullies, voter ignorance, rapists, arrogant bigoted political leaders and trumped up self-promoting loud mouths.
As I know Americans involved in special opts, only recently did I manage to watch American Sniper, the biopic about Chris Kyle, coincidently in the same week I inhaled the six CDs of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman. Having experienced the reaction to the former and anticipation of the latter, I fear we're not sensing their connection to our national essence - the truth about ourselves.
My Uncle Gino taught me how to shoot with deadly accuracy well before Boot Camp, but he also taught me not to succumb to the thrill of the kill.
Arguably, many American lives would have been lost without the sights and trigger finger of Chris Kyle, but if fewer adults of all nationalities, ethnicities and religious beliefs taught fewer children that guns are the solution, maybe, to more lives, more lives would matter.
Truly, all colors, shapes and life preferences matter. All deserve more than a Johnny come lately NRA Governor's hypocritical prayer request. All deserve more than flag waving inspired war.
Only two opposing points of view are needed to make war a perpetual success for Conservative Corporatism, Conservative Politicians and non-partisan morticians.
Southerners are the only Americans who we admit, ever lost a war, but despite dwindling support and symbols, their war against Northern Aggression wages on.
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