People who no doubt beat back demons from various directions all their lives got gunned down for their effort.  So what do we say at this point in our cavalcade of disasters?  Oh no, not again?  How about the thought no one can avoid when it happens in such numbers as to evoke a slaughterhouse?  What a waste to just bury them and with people in America going hungry.  They were born individually but they died together as one.  Their number apparently  is 49.  49 got killed.  It will be mourned but not missed.  How often do we use it anyway?  Not likely to be voiced by anyone famous except maybe Donald Trump.   Then there’s the other thought, that we now are permanently mired in the Bush legacy.  Again, thank you Bushes.

Spokespeople for the entire nation will act like they really care when they really don’t.  Orlando newspeople will adopt a mask of gravity when really they just can’t believe this fell in their lap on a slow news day.  Corned beef, not the usual hash.  At last the local visionaries must be satisfied.  Orlando has become a "world class city," standing on the world stage not as crumbs from Disney, but on its own.  Imagine the pressure to make the most of it.   We believe we are what we are not and we try to project an image that is no true reflection; all to disclaim our history.  We are used by technology so we like to think we have evolved to be worthy.

When government officials express their sorrow, let’s remember they are no sadder than we are and for no loftier reasons.  Politicians speak out of concern for their electability else why would they wade at all into grief where they have no business.   The presumptive Republican candidate, Big Iconoclast jumps for the default setting.  He will dredge up all his influence to see what he can do and pray for the victims.  What does God say, nudging his pal Lucifer whose job is to set the scene for glory?

                “So, Trump’s weighing in on this.  Might bear some looking into.”

As we try to distance ourselves from our brutal nature, no matter how we step away it comes along.  We are subject to a government preoccupied with perfecting delivery systems to lethally penetrate human flesh.  No alternative aspiration can trump this in importance.

Bullets brook no qualms about whom they penetrate.  Why do we?  The one killed is ever the plaintiff appalled the same in the presence of justice.  Republicans will modulate their responses, angered by the lawlwssness more than the result, seeming to be damn sorry all the while winking at their base.  After all the scene is not without biblical precedence.  Ironic  who God chose to deliver again the message.  Hmm.  That may not play well.  Better to stay quiet than confuse the faithful.

For those who assume the seeds of this episode were spread only in the socially unhip Middle East, I beg to differ, having run across, back in the 80's I think, the weekly  radio broadcast of the Pastor of the Pine Hills Baptist Church.  I caught only part of it but recorded the re-broadcast later in the day.  Just for Yuks. He was exhorting his flock and his listeners to do no less than set forth from their homes and do the Lord's work by killing some homosexuals.  Just like God did in Sodom and Gomorrah.  If that man still infests the earth, I wonder if he thinks it odd that his words bore fruit on such a tree.

I'm pretty sure this whole thing can be turned by the state into a pretty poignant vanity license plate:  LGBT 49.  Raise some money for some more awareness.   Modern man lives with the grief of millions and it has made him numb to all but his own.  It looks like life, unlike living, is getting cheaper all the time.