Texas Tower Massacre

On August 1, 1966 Charles Joseph Whitman started the day by killing his wife and mother. He left a note in his apartment.

"I do not quite understand what it is that compels me to type this letter. Perhaps it is to leave some vague reason for the actions I have recently performed. I do not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an average reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall when it started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts."

Charles Whitman departed from his apartment and drove to the Texas University. The ex-Marine climbed the 307-foot tower with a cache of weapons. From this aerie he shot dead 13 people and wounded 32 others with telescopic rifles. This rampage lasted for hours. Finally two Austin police officers broke through the barricaded door and put down the killer with shotguns.

"We got him."

At his autopsy medical examiners found a brain tumor in his head. He was also on speed and rumors abounded about his abuse as a child by the Catholic priests from his home parish of Lake Worth, Florida.

No one blamed the guns.

Not then.

Now now and not when gunmen assail 'soft targets' such as school, fast food chains, and malls or a concert at Las Vegas.

Strangely no deranged gunman has ever attacked a gun show.

Guns and guns and guns.

Not once in America has a mass murderer assailed a gun show, proving that either the madmen are scared of not accomplishing their murderous mission or gun shows calm the burning blood of a killer's brain.

Don't get me wrong. I like shooting guns. Just not at people.

Unless they are after my family, then it's open season.

Lock and load.

Church Tithes Of Bullets

Two days ago Devin Kelley walked into the Sunday service at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. He was dressed in black military gear and opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing 26 and wounding 19, which was 10% of the small town's population.

After the massacre the lone gunman exited from the place of worship. A neighbor shot Kelley with a rifle. He escaped in an SUV, chased by the neighbor and a friend. Kelley crashed his vehicle and died either at his own hands or from another shot by the neighbor.

# 45 was in Japan playing golf with the Prime Minister. Trump called the incident a tragedy caused by mental illness and added that the shooting had nothing to do with guns.

Once more the GOP sent their thoughts and prayers to the victims' families.

The NRA quickly denied any and all responsibility for the killings with the old adage, "Guns do not kill people. People kill people." and the 5% Alt-Right condemned Kelley as a member of the Anti-Fascist League, citing four atheism websites on the shooter's Facebook page.

A close inspection of the young man's history revealed a year-long bid in a military prison for spousal abuse and a caustic relationship with his wife's family.

One of the dead was her grandmother.

Charles Whitman committed the first mass shooting in Texas. Devin Kelley achieved the greatest number of dead.

It will not be the last.

Some people suggested that it was time for the church deacons to carry guns to services.

God, guns, and Texas.

Yee-ha.