Become an epidemic
Guns in USA
Pick them up at Walmart
(Open 7 days)
Mummy? Can I have that one?……
Sure sweetie. I’ll put it on my card
And some bullets.
I’m gonna play cowboys with Billy, bang bang….
Play safe sweetie…..
You’re dead Billy bang bang….
Don Matthews
June 2021
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
Dark😶
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I can well treat this situation with flippancy but in reality it is dead serious…and worrying
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True
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Yes true…and worrying
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Yeah
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the gun stores are fascinating if you treat it as a sport instead of weapon
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I hear the local chemist is getting a gun display together…. increasing their variety offer they say….maybe I misheard…could be a new range of perfumes out…. BANG by BERETTA
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That’s quite pissible not a rumour since ‘Juliette has a gun not a perfume’ is out
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I was shocked the first time I saw a gun display in a Walmart – it was actually the first time I’d seen a (real, in person) gun at all. I think I must have been in my early 20s. But guns are such a normalised part of US culture, that they even arm their dogs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/a-dog-shoots-a-person-almost-every-year-in-america/
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Thanks for the link Kate. There are just so many guns there it has become a normal part of life.
A quote from the link:
“When you have a country with as many people, guns and dogs as we do, this type of thing is going to happen from time to time”.
My flippant response
So of course this is gonna happen. No probs.
As I said, it’s become an epidemic. I’m glad I don’t live there…..
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This makes me sad.
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I write satire so you will understand where I come from. It must have been prompted by a current massacre at the time. You may not have seen some of the family photos I’ve used on FCS. Dad, mum, kids, All carrying guns. And all with big.smiles. I can’t believe it. What is it with these parents?……
Couple of months ago someone went wild and massacred. Police knew he had a propensity for weapons. And get this, people saw him playing with a machine gun a few days before. Pardon my black humour, maybe practising with a few beer cans on the back wall?
Yes, armed and dangerous. And yes, sad……
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