Jake Davison went on a shooting spree last week, in Plymouth. Killed four people, injured a bunch of others, then shot himself. We call that a ‘mass killing’, the Americans call it ‘a bad day at the office’. Though we don’t have the advantage of being able to just go out and buy a submachine gun or a nuclear bomb like you can in Kansas. “Would you like some grenades with that, Sir? They’re on special, buy four get two free!!!” Not like that here. We’re tightly controlled, gun-wise, regulated, lots of checks, references, investigations of worthiness.

And after all that, they decided that it was ok to return the license and rifle to Jake. A depressive, OCD weirdo with a history of assault, violence, anger issues and a major gun obsession since he was 8 years old. And a recent social media decline from moderately ‘special’ to nihilistic depths of depressive insanity. All available for even the police to view. But they didn’t.

But we can’t blame Jake for this atrocity. Because he was an ‘incel’ and therefore has been dealt a bum hand and is a victim.

Incels, or Involuntary Celebates is a kind of club for those who, in previous generations, would describe themselves as, ‘not getting any’. But being a kind of support group, it has to have an ideology, a philosophy, a mission statement.

So those simply ‘not getting any’ feel themselves duty-bound, or genital-bound, to try harder, do better, meet more people, ingratiate themselves to worthy potential partners, befriend, chat-up, beg, anything to try and get laid. There are rumours that you can even buy sex. Almost like a commodity. Who’d’a known?

Incels are not responsible for their celibacy, hence the ‘in-‘ bit. It has been forced upon them by women who… who basically have standards and won’t just jump into bed, or onto the back of a pick-up truck, with any gun-toting quasi-rapist who believes its his right to put his penis wherever it wants to go. Incels’ problem is that women have choices. They also despise those men who have girlfriends, or fuck-buddies, or whatever, because its taking opportunities from them. So they turn their situation into one of passive acceptance and look for others to blame.

I’m aware that there are many people of fragile mental condition and undoubtedly Jake was one. But validating your depression by joining a ‘support group’ like incel sadly compounds the problem, aggravates it and provides the usual social media forums for sociopaths to encourage each other into violence.

What a sick world. Thank God for football.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx