Where Reality and Tragicomedy Intersect . . . .

A few hundred years from now, after the human race has barely, albeit vainly, survived mass extinction due to it's own folly and ignorance, the handful of straggling descendants who are left roaming a nearly uninhabitable, smoking ruin of a planet come upon a scraggy, toasty piece of paper in the burned out ruins of a long abandoned skyscraper somewhere along the upper east coast of north America - it is a revealing relic of their ancestor's not too ancient past.  The paper reads:

Piers Morgan        ✔ @piersmorgan  How can I possibly be arguing about the 'right' for blind people to use guns? This is INSANE. 6:55 AM - 12 Sep 2013

1. Piers Morgan        ✔ @piersmorgan

   An idea @Dloesch @benfergusonshow > you guys stand at the end of a range and I'll get 100 blind people to fire away at targets around you.

Dana Loesch        ✔ @DLoesch  It's simple, @piersmorgan . You could end this now. Just show us gun crime stats from the blind. Waiting. 10:17 AM - 12 Sep 2013

Dana Loesch        ✔ @DLoesch  All I'm saying is that if you're going to base your gun control on blind people owning guns, show us all the shooting deaths from the blind. 8:43 AM - 12 Sep 2013

1. Piers Morgan        ✔ @piersmorgan

   The warped, twisted logic of the American gun lobby > RT @DLoesch So @piersmorgan hates blind people. No one is shocked. Moving on.

Dana Loesch        ✔ @DLoesch  You are pushing this discrimination, not me @piersmorgan . 8:40 AM - 12 Sep 2013

Dana Loesch        ✔ @DLoesch  So @piersmorgan hates blind people. No one is shocked. Moving on. 7:24 AM - 12 Sep 2013

Piers Morgan        ✔ @piersmorgan  So @Dloesch wants me to provide 'statistics' to support my belief that arming blind people is a bad idea. I can't. Dana wins. ARM THE BLIND! 9:36 AM - 12 Sep 2013

[ h/t to Hullabaloo:  http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/yes-this-is-insane-gun-nuts-lose-thread.html ]



And as the haunting, gaunt, barely recognizably human figures scan and attempt to digest the meaning of the words on the tattered piece of paper that they had found, The Gadfly fancies that future conversation going something like this:

1st Human Straggler:  They were arguing about the wisdom of arming blind people??  I...I don't get it?

2nd Human Straggler:  Uh-huh.  It appears so.   Apparently it was some ancient argument between people who were for gun control and people who weren't.

1st Human Straggler:  Ohhhh - Ok.  Well, I suppose that explains our present predicament then doesn't it?

2nd Human Straggler:  How so?

1st Human Straggler:  (Glancing around at his apocalyptic surroundings)  Looks like the Gun lovers won the argument.

2nd Human Straggler:  Uh-huh.  It appears so.

If it weren't so sad, it almost might be funny.



----TFG