Case close minded

In the aftermath of the Vegas mass shootings, Richard Warnica finally gives the American carnage the satirical treatment it deserves. Actually it’s not in bad taste to depict the American politically arrested development as a seven act, and counting, morality play of the absurd, because that’s what it truly is. You can’t make up the idea that America’s first response, unlike their first responders, is always sacred inaction — to pray but not to take the guns away.

Now Trump has become the latest preacher of this bizarre gospel of political paralysis. For his faithful, his simple minded statement that the latest American slaughter of the innocent is “pure evil” means that the case is closed — there is nothing more to be explained or done.

However, to do nothing is an affront to Yankee know-how. For reasonable people the case shouldn’t be closed until it’s determined how to prevent it from happening again. That’s why it’s a good idea to understand that evil is not a preordained deed but a misguided mode of reasoning that substitutes the abstract for the concrete. Consequently, it’s important to figure out the thinking process of a suicidal shooter who resorts to mass homicide until he can psych himself up to kill himself. It’s also important to factor in the part played by the availability of automatic weapons in the mass killing. Moreover, why is it that so many victims and bystanders are consoled with the false idea that just more prayers and more guns will save them from a repeat event? Until more reliable knowledge is established Americans should not be so willing to close their minds about what happened in Vegas.

What the current American drama needs is another political act before the next shooting starts again. In fact a good working definition of Trump’s “pure evil” is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Such is the true madness of president Trump and his co-thinkers. They partake in evil when they deny the facts in order to inflict their delusions on the rest of Americans who want to prevent future shootings. and his colleagues are putting the future of our country at risk. up the St Laurence River annually in 1,200 or more oil tankers to 39 marine terminals in Quebec.

Liberals, Quebecers and environmentalists seem to find oil tankers on the St. Lawrence okay but on the West Coast not so okay!

Additionally, they find it okay paying foreign companies with terrible environmental practices and foreign workers instead of Canadian ones for this oil.

The end result — a major loss of jobs and investment in Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick in particular, and thousands of manufacturing jobs in Ontario and Quebec who supplied the energy industries.

Where are those who cooperate for the good of the country? Next Summer, instead of making $50/hour helping to build Energy East, 18-yearold Canadians can stumble around stoned, making a nuisance of themselves.

Great nation-building there, Justin.