Swamp Of Indiscretion: Facebook Newtown Comments



Faithful readers know Buster is a Facebook failure.  I check it rarely and have little to say.  The lovely Mrs. Gammons likewise has little to say on Facebook, but unlike me, she does check in often for shits and giggles, just to monitor the silliness in that online Swamp of Indiscretion.

In the wake of the Newtown massacre, the wife tells me that the Swamp is suddenly filled with stupid commentary from a paranoid mix of Minutemen, Promise-Keepers, militia types, doomsday preppers, and fundamentalist conservative Christian gun owners who have inappropriately chosen this particular moment to trumpet their 2nd Amendment rights and to warn against the never-ending government plot to take away their guns.  Gimme a fuckin' break!

In the past day or so, the missus felt compelled to jump into a Facebook fray when a young man of our acquaintance posted some ill-advised comments about how the gummint would surely use this murder of 20 children to trample on his rights and freedoms. 

Now, my constant Facebook advice to the dear wife is "don't take the bait", but in this instance, she couldn't help herself and just had to call High Holy Bullshit on this person's thoughtless post, which ignited a small brushfire of online "Point-Counterpoint" exchanges.  Oh goody.  (This is why I, as a rule, avoid Facebook.)

But Mrs. Gammons is absolutely correct:  to use this bloodbath as a Facebook soapbox for airing crack-pot conspiracy theories is more than just ignorant and insensitive -- it's shameful and wrong.

So grow up!  We're not going to take away your precious guns.  But just in case I'm wrong and you're really that torqued up about it, we'll be taking yours first!  If you're that obsessed, then you're the last person on Earth that ought to have a gun.