Pouring Salt in the Wounds

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And so we sit, numb, unable to understand why someone else pulled out a gun and shot people who never did anything to him. I look outside my window here at work and see the flags at half staff, something that's way too common. I have a lot of theories as to why these things are happening, but that's for another discussion. Now I have an ax to grind. Maybe you've seen this, or maybe you've been too busy shaking your head in utter disbelief or wiping the tears away to notice, but amid our rash of mass murders there is an equally disturbing rash: morons (and if you know me, you know I don't use a word like that lightly) who deny these things are even happening. I've said many times before, and I'll reiterate here, that by and large I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't think Oswald shot JFK anymore than I think my 40-year-old co-worker shot JFK, but I pretty much draw the line with "conspiracies" there. I think we really went to the moon. I think terrorists, not George W. Bush (who was simultaneously considered brilliant enough to pull the snow job of the ages on America and too dumb to tie his own shoes), who perpetrated 9/11. I think the Holocaust really happened. And yes, I think these mass shootings are really happening. Sadly, we have these conspiracy theorists who don't think the audio and video of that shooting in Las Vegas was real. They call them "crisis actors," and claim that everything since the Sandy Hook Elementary School was "staged" by the government. One of the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting said that she had to disconnect her phone and all of her social media because these merry band of buffoons and their lemmings were bullying her, and some even sending death threats, because they don't think that bullet hole in her leg was real, nor was the blood that poured out of her body from it. Man, talk about pouring salt in the wounds! Sure enough, there was a denier saying the NYC attack didn't happen because there were "no pictures of bodies." Yesterday's carnage was likewise dismissed as bogus before the Texas officials could hold a press conference. People who believe in God quote Numbers 32:23: "Be sure your sins will find you out." John Lennon said, "Instant karma's gonna get you." The "secular world" says "paybacks are a (female dog)." However you wish to say it, I can't help but think that one day, one of these deniers will get the phone call that says someone they love (assuming they have that capacity) was shot down for no reason...and one of their followers will tell them not to worry, it really didn't happen, it was just a staged fake event. The only song I can thing of that's appropriate. Profanity warning in the lyrics: