I'm personally getting sick and tired of it, Homes. So now, after the shoot-out at our nation's Capitol, we get to add Russell Eugene Weston(that thing about all shooters getting to have three names) to our list of American shooters and murderers. We get to pick up our daily newspapers for at least the next week and learn everything any reporter can dig up about his time in high school, his neighborhood, his parents, how he lived near Unabomber Ted Kaczinski in Montana(What is about Montana? The water?) CNN is gonnah run this one for about as long, too.

What I have to wonder, of course, is what all those "sportsmen" at the National Rifle Association(NRA,) including Charleston Heston, have to say THIS TIME about why we need NOT to regulate hand-guns?

I mean, let's face it: hunting is NOT a sport. In a sport, both sides know they are involved in the game, right?

So now we got LITTLE KIDS blasting the hell out of school yards, people shooting tourists at the supposed citadel of our freedoms and enlightened way of life, so that wingnuts callin' themselves "sportsmen" can feel their rights ain't being infringed upon!!!

I really didn't intend for this to become a rant, but the more I think about the IDIOCY, the MAYHEM, the DESTRUCTION, which we are putting up with because of those ass-holes at the NRA the more pissed off I get.

HOW MUCH MORE KILLING OF OUR MOTHERS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, FATHERS ARE WE WILLING TO PUT UP WITH BEFORE WE BAN HAND-GUNS?

Writing for a publications like this, I've heard the cynical saw, "If it bleeds it leads," but how many more articles is this magazine --- which ain't even about this shit --- gonnah have to be published about senseless violence?

Okay. I'll calm down before Our Editor decides not to run this column.

Let me take a breath and make a confession.

Remember when columnists used to write about what a space alien might think if he came to our planet? It was a convention that became a cliche.

Well, you know what, ya'll? I don't believe in UFOs, and I'll tell you why.

We got umpteen hundreds of people says they have seen UFOs in this country, right? But consider this: IF there were space aliens, they would have to be hella smarter than us to have travelled all those light-years across the stars to get here. What that tells me is, if we already got spy planes that can pick out a car on a single street in a single neighborhood, those space aliens would surely have something just as good.

Now if they had something that damned good, they would be able to monitor our asses. Which, further, means to me people that damned smart would not be hanging around a damned country that was the MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. You understand what I'm saying?

They'd be out of here, because nobody in their right mind would want to visit a place where you could picked off by a stray bullet NO MATTER WHERE YOU WENT.