Joe Soucheray
A shooter was prone on the roof of a building 200 yards away and fired a single shot, horribly destructive, and then is seen scurrying off the roof and disappears.
Americans are entirely justified in wondering if the murder of Charlie Kirk was a professionally accomplished assassination ordered by who or what we don’t know. I am particularly disbelieving of anything the government tells me.
But it apparently wasn’t that wormhole at all. That was written while I was as feverish as the next person. The people running us must be proud of how frazzled they have us.
We were told during the Joe Biden administration that Joe was fit as a fiddle. He clearly was not. It was all his handlers could do to get Joe to go through the motions. Who was running the country?
Donald Trump was elected a second time and he inherited with his ascendency a re-invigorated Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Trump has to keep fighting off the Epstein connection. Bits and pieces of the so-called Epstein files are dangled before us and then magically withdrawn. If those files are devastating to Epstein’s pals, will we ever know?
Who is running this country? The people we vote for? Increasingly, that doesn’t appear to be likely at all.
And why Charlie Kirk? There are dozens of louder, meaner and more outrageous pundits in the marketplace. Kirk was only 31. Many of the things he said were easy to disagree with and many of the things he said and believed were easy to agree with. That is called having opinions. Opinions are still legal and should not be punished by a sniper with a bolt-action rifle.
About that shooter. Yes, I am aware that the woods will soon be full of hunters who can take a deer from 200 yards. But they can’t and wouldn’t try if there were hundreds and hundreds of people between them and the deer.
We want answers and question number one is: Who is running the country?
The government, or the government we are allowed to know, is doing a miserable job in virtually every aspect of life. If you think of something the government does extremely well, please let me know. We are in a period of maddening moral and ethical decline. We are exampled no character, no morality, no fiscal responsibility – well, except for Congress members who enter Congress supposedly broke and then are suddenly worth millions. We are played like peas under one of three cups and we don’t even know which cup we are under.
We are not safe. We are not secure. We are critically in debt.
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The judicial system is a revolving door. Criminals roam the streets. The once-great cities of America are infested with deadly drugs and theft and assaults, car thefts and shootings. Police departments are short-staffed. Entire downtowns, once the center of commerce, are hollowed out and decaying.
The kids at Annunciation weren’t safe. A Ukrainian immigrant woman wasn’t safe on a train in Charleston, N.C., where she was stabbed to death by a career criminal who should have been in jail. Charlie Kirk wasn’t safe and all he was doing was taking questions on a college campus.
The inevitable answer to all this is just get rid of guns. It’s a lovely wish. Do you trust the government to make that happen? Hell no, that might cost them their place on the third rail, where they lead lives separate from the rest of us.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com. Soucheray’s “Garage Logic” podcast can be heard at garagelogic.com.
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