The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)

[David Morris]

It was a good tune.  I remember it well.

On Sunday, December 16, 2012, Joe Allonby wrote:

> The Boomtown Rats song was about a real incident in which the school
> shooting was done by a teenage girl who "didn't like Mondays and
> wanted to liven things up".
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM,  <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's even worse than that; this kind of tragedy is overwhelmingly
> > perpetrated by young, white, privileged men. A kind of elect. Yes,
> > testosterone is surely a factor, but not the only one.
> >
> > Curiously enough, the famous pop song about such an event is about a
> girl.
> > Sung by a man, natch.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
> > ________________________________
> > From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> > Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:37:56 -0800
> > To: <bandwraith at aol.com>
> > Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
> >
> > Soma?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:51 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Demonizing the shooter's mother is the wrong way to go. It may come out
> >> that she deserves some blame- just buying the guns in my rad-liberal
> brain
> >> (despite my testosterone)- is not a good thing. But there is an
> exponential
> >> difference between buying, collecting, target shooting at a range and
> the
> >> horrendous random killing of twenty innocent children.
> >>
> >> The burden should not just fall on the shoulders' of mothers: to be both
> >> the familial counterpoint to the inherent violence of their male
> children
> >> (and mates), as well as, too often, the victims of it.
> >>
> >> Men and women are not equal when it comes to the underlying
> >> psycho-physical tendencies to commit mass murder. This needs to be
> >> acknowledged and dealt with- not necessarily by hiring more cops with
> more
> >> glocks. Got any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
> >> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >> Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 11:23 pm
> >> Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
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