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In reply to the discussion: Florida toddler shoots, kills himself with parents' gun [View all]Bo Zarts
(25,396 posts).. RIP little baby boy. At the tender age of 3 you most likely had been exposed to, and had developed a curiosity about, mommy & daddy's embracement of the gun culture, perhaps to the exclusion of their embracement of you. They don't really sound like fine people to me.
Was it daddy & mommy's fetishizing of an inanimate, lethal object to the point of anthropomorphism ("Man, this baby can really lay down some firepower!" "She's a sweet little thang, my 9 miller-meter." ) that made you amble up to the nightstand and discover, unsecured, that around which their lives revolve? The center of their warped universe? Pure raw sex in cold blued steel?
Daddy probably would rather his gun be out in plain sight than his rubbers or blue pills .. same with mommy's lube and toyz. Guns .. sex. Sex .. guns. Sweet Jesus.
Live by the gun; die by the gun. Somebody (or sombodies) have to die, and your little name came up. It is grist for a Leonard Cohen song .. a very sad Leonard Cohen song. But he's dead too, and maybe hanging out in the Tower of Song.
I'm inured to it now .. it's so far away, in such a now-strange land (Florida). I'm tempered like the cold blued steel of the 9mm. But it will hit my family again .. gun violence. It already has X3 .. but it will hit again. Like a coming storm, I feel it in my old bones.
RIP little boy. RIP.
And fuck y'all, mommy & daddy. Fuck y'all.