Shoot

Posted on November 12, 2004 by Gene

I don’t often make comments that can be construed as racist or just plain mean and unfair, but I think the following might be taken that way; in fact, it’s just a snotty indictment of a certain culture:
Why, oh why, do arabic cultures celebrate weddings and funerals with guns? How freaking stupid are these people? Is it an example of the violence that is infused into their culture? What morons carry automatic weapons to celebratory events and unload ammunition into the air? Do their schools not teach about gravity? Is gravity something that you have to be taught about because you’re too stupid to actually see how things fall down? I’m listening to an NPR report from Ramallah where Yasser Arafat’s body is returning; and it sounds like a report from a war zone, with so many guns being fired into the air. What did these people do in the era before guns? Throw stones up into the air? Sharp sticks?
I know that this sort of thing happens sometimes in places like Los Angeles as well; again, with relatively poor minorities who have low levels of education, little wealth… and yet lots of guns.