Random
Now
The town that has a gal,
According to Glenn Miller’s band
Has lost that trust in wrecked
Romance; the “sweetest gal”
No longer waits in Kalamazoo,
Does she?
And does he want to explain
Himself? The driver who took
Fares when bouts of shooting
Anyone was done
Silently, she now attends
In another state of place,
Gated from harm
(random shootings in Kalamazoo,
one killer who worked taxi-like)
clcouch123 
February 25, 2016 at 4:10 am
This is just sad. Another life ended by gun. Just… Sad
February 25, 2016 at 4:29 pm
Life ended for apparently no reason. Sad–you’re right–and, I guess, insane.
February 25, 2016 at 9:21 pm
is the purpose of a gun–to kill someone?
February 25, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Good question. I suppose guns were developed as a way to defeat one’s foe–usually, the army of a foe. I’d be satisfied if the gun only had an agrarian purpose. To protect farmers from predators and to hunt for food. So I think in answer to the question, we say–forgetting origins and legacies and lunacies–no.
February 26, 2016 at 2:35 pm
I seem to recall something about the Gatling gun…US civil war era…early machine gun I believe, its hard to see any application for such a weapon except to be able to kill a lot at once. 🙂
February 26, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Yeah, the Gatling gun. Killed many in the Civil War and many more after. A weapon that could kill with the gunner almost not looking at the targets, which were people. Now we can kill more indiscriminately with automatic weapons, because we have so many more. I guess that’s my concern. Not so much the military. Military weapons will be needed until there are no more militaries. But we who live in cities and towns and townships and all the place in between. Do we need all the guns? Do we not make it too easy for people who can get the guns to use them? In addition to Kalamazoo, I can now write about similar shootings that happened in Kansas. It seems that guns, in a terrible way, are too easy.