When Horror is So Much You Escape or Explode

So horrified by the attack at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood and even more by reaction to it ... so I've just been screwing off with the blog.

More accurately, the horror comes from the lack of reaction to the murders.

One of the least common was prayers for them. I saw hundreds of tweets over a long period and there were two or three prayers offered.

There were many from people saying Planned Parenthood deserved it and the attack is such irony. 

There was all kinds of concern about the cops but not so much the civilian victims. 

There were people posting hoaxes with false identifications of the shooter. 

Multiple sought to exploit it for political ends before it was even known if the victims of it were receiving care ... and I do mean cops and civilians; nothing was known of their status.

Sometimes music and other things are an escape and this situation just now is too fucking much.  There are so many lies on top of lies wrapped around this and the staggering, endless scope of it all is overwhelming.  Today is a huge day of protest for ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬, a protest of extreme violence with guns, and that is supplanted by yet another instance of extreme violence with a gun by the same right-wing lunatics who shoot black people.

The soonest reaction to this, as always, will be a rush on the gun stores to buy even more of them. The most encouraging thing of this day is observing the #BlackLivesMatter protest created no significant violence anywhere.  This gives me hope for humanity but the rest ... there's no way to process all that horror at once.