Donald Trump stood up yesterday, in the wake of the the latest of oh,
so many high school shootings and said that the main concern for the
nation was… mental health. Not guns, mental health.

At which point I actually thought ‘he’s right’, this is an issue about
mental health. The President’s mental health. Not that of the shooter.
We all know he’s a fucking nutter already. And we’ve been half way
there with the president’s since those revelations in Steve Bannon’s
book claiming the man ‘unfit’ on insanity grounds.

The President and most of the Republican Party are sponsored by the
biggest lobby in America. The NRA. National Rifle Association. They
represent the immense gun industry in that fine nation and give 2/3/4
million dollar hand-outs regularly to Congressmen and Senators who
speak their language. What they call, with stress on the noble and
democratic; ‘2nd amendment rights’, what everyone else with any common
sense calls ‘the gun problem’. Trump received masses of campaign
dollars from the NRA and is thus now unlike to shoot off the hand that
feeds him.

For Donald Trump I say one thing. That mental health is obviously a
massive issue for anyone who is going to commit mass murder. And a
small percentage (we hope) of people will always suffer from mental
health issues. We don’t know who they are until they ‘explode’,
although in the case this week, it seems everyone from the school to
the FBI did in fact know about Nikolas Cruz. Mainly because his
aspiration in life, openly stated, was to be a ‘high school shooter’.

But if a tiny percentage of kids crack up, for whatever reason, does
Mr President in any way feel that having exposure to virtually
unlimited firearms and ammunition, being raised in a culture of gun
use and bigger-is-better-ism where firearms are concerned and
gun(g)-ho attitudes to shooting in general, does he feel that this has
no influence on such an outcome?? And, of course, access. Nikolas
didn’t just bring ‘a gun’. Like a pistol. No. He brought GUNS! Serious
rapid fire automatic rifles and loads of them, with sacks full of
ammo.

If you go to any mental health institution, what you normally won’t
find lying around in the playroom, is guns. Of any description. So
surely, if mental health is a problem, albeit in a small percentage of
people, wouldn’t there be some benefit in not having 360 million guns
lying around the country? (The current estimate; as many guns as
people).

President Trump is a fuck-wit.

I’ve been in my own battle this week; with man-flu. The dreaded
disease that only affects the fit, strong, brave and gorgeous among
us. Been awful. I’ve been heroic. Almost uncomplaining. Almost.

Happy Friday

A xxxx