The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)

[Ian Livingston]

Fascinating, that. Missed reading the news in depth today.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:23 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> And according to friends, the shooter's mom was a gun freak who encouraged
> her sons to go to the shooting range with her.
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >Sent: Dec 15, 2012 11:08 PM
> >To: bandwraith at aol.com
> >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
> >
> >Women will promptly hand those guns over to some man,  either "Mr. Right"
>  or a son or a brother - someone.   The Sandy Hook killer's guns were
> registered in his mom's name.
> >
> >Bekah
> >
> >On Dec 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> 1. Adopt "Smart Gun" technology for all new guns.
> >>
> >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Gun
> >>
> >> 2. After a grace period, all new ammunition must be smart gun specific-
> i.e., will only work in smart guns.
> >>
> >> 3. Women can legally buy as many guns, bazookas, rocket launchers,
> etc., as the like.
> >>   3a. Men cannot and are not permitted to own guns of any kind.
> >>
> >> Because actually, the problem is not guns, its testosterone. Women
> occassionally go nuts and drown their kids, or drag them into a suicide
> scenario, but this is rare. There are, to my knowledge, no documented
> massacres of innocents by women in the U.S. All of them have been
> perpetrated by men. We need to acknowledge this fact and deal with it
> accordingly.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> >> To: Amany Rocco Kaiser <amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com>
> >> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >> Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 2:14 pm
> >> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
> >>
> >>
> >> I heartily agree. Twain spoke to it a hundred years back, to the effect
> that we ignite a bunker and throw each other into the flames. Let's see,
> how'd he put that.... "We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double
> the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of
> blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that
> sweeps the land as a consequence." - Speech, between October 5 and October
> 17, 1907. We feed psychotropic drugs to people whose minds are already
> weakened and deluded into a perspective that sees slaughter as common and
> who are living hopelessly at the edge, then we sell them guns. All the guns
> they want.
> >>
> >>
> >> Al queda won, exposing the greatest terrorist network ever devised. And
> we are that.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> A Dionysian age is in its full frenzy, taking innocents by the score.
> The Apollonians have work to do. I think few generations have been called
> upon to rebuild on the ruins of such a society as reigns today, but the
> coming generation is tasked with just that. My question is how can we help,
> now that we have let so much that is bad take root? There's work to be
> done, that much I believe.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Amany Rocco Kaiser <
> amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> We must consider what is behind it.
> >>
> >>
> >>>> It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
> >> society.<<
> >> If it is a matter of "guilt," the people will not be the great judge of
> this court. Because the indictee here is the people themselves ...
> >>
> >>
> >> ARK
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:48:49 -0500
> >>> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
> >>> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> >>> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> >>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >>
> >>>
> >>> considering what's happened in Connecticut today, a very heavy feeling
> >>> weighs one down. suppose thats what u were referring, too
> >>>
> >>> Hartford Courant @hartfordcourant
> >>>
> >>> One entire classrom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources
> >> said
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> > "The tragic is above all a property which we observe in events,
> >> fortunes,
> >>> > characters and the like, wnd which actually
> >>> > exists in them. We might say that it is given off by them like a
> >> heavy
> >>> > breath, or seems like an obscure glimmering that surrounds them."
> >>> > ---On the Tragic, Max
> >>> > Scheler, 1954
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