#firing range

“Pistol Practice,” by USCG artist Vestal, September 8, 1943.

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard

Series: Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities

File Unit: Art by Vestal through Wood

Like, a big sandy place, designed to not be flammable or provide opportunities for fires that might spread, with medical personnel on standby in case somebody blows off a finger or face or somesuch, ect?

Plus they could do; like; stuff with 'em you couldn’t do as a rando setting up fireworks on the street! Like, set up simple/breakable "Potempkin Villages" designed to be blown up by fireworks, if that makes sense? All the fun of property damage with none of the actual making-people-mad!

Being Latino myself, the fact that a US president used that term (referring to the title of this post) to describe all of us along with other choice phrases like "rapists" or "drug dealers" is abhorrent. I know what you're thinking, "aren't you beating a dead horse?" and to answer that question, no, no I'm not, and if you think I am, then you need to be beaten because racial discrimination never seems to fucking end with these white dipshits. However, this isn't quite the point of this post.

I'm not oblivious to the recent event of which one of our own, went and decided to use a school in Texas as a firing range. As a Latino, I don't accept responsibility or accountability for that idiot's actions based on the fact that we are PoC.

I am not a rapist.

I am not a drug dealer.

I am not a "bad hombre".

And I am certainly not a school shooter.

If you want to use these terms to describe me, remember, you don't know who I am, and if I hear you use any of those descriptors along with any other derogatory word for Latino, you will walk away with a fat lip. I'm done being nice.

I don't know what possessed him to commit such a heinous act, I don't know what the underlying mental health issues (if any) are and frankly, I don't care. My heart goes out to the victims and their families, and I'm not just saying that like most politicians.

However.

This stupid fuck, just set all minorities back several steps and may have just added "school shooters" to the fucking list of names that Trump used to describe us.

Way to go asshole. Glad you're fucking dead. Just wish the cops killed you before you killed a whole goddamned classroom, most of which were children. Fucking CHILDREN. What the fuck could they have possibly done to you to deserve that? Even if their families did something to you, why the fucking kids?

And thanks to you, you just gave white politicians a fucking scapegoat. They're gonna blame us for what you did.

Never mind that you were able to easily get ahold of an AR-15. Which no civilian should have access to. Hell, not even law enforcement should have that sort of weaponry.

And now, the point shines through. Gun control. We don't have any. So don't fucking look at us like we're the problem, meanwhile all you slack-jawed, gun-toting, white-ass pieces of shit are fucking the barrels of your guns cause you're so fucking horny for them that you'll do anything to be able to go buy a gun or ammunition over the counter at a fucking Walmart.

You'll allow schools to be a shooting range, and blame an entire race for your incompetence, just so you can keep your guns. Well, I have an idea.