Gunsmoke

I am running my errands for the day. On the radio making an argument against the futility of gun laws Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, is saying you cannot regulate human behavior. Now this came as a surprise to me as I stopped at a red traffic light. I thought even deeper about this when I pushed down on the gas pedal at the green light and realized my seat belt was too tight. I continued pondering this great truth as I listened to Trump tell NFL teams they should make a rule against kneeling during the National Anthem. I turned on my signal to make a left hand turn. On the radio I heard my friend Rush Limbaugh declare that the first thing that liberals do is want to talk about gun laws after a mass shooting. This was his lead story at noon following the night of horror in Vegas. His show spent the day defending the Second Amendment of the Constitution. 
Meanwhile Trump was trying to regulate the conversation about gun control until a more appropriate time. Congress continued to march forward with their new law striking down the ban on selling silencers on guns. I remembered when Rep. Scalise was shot playing softball and we were told to wait to have the conversation later at, everyone say it with me, ‘a more appropriate time”. Of course I think of this because Rep. Scalise, after months of recuperating from his gunshot wound, returned to Congress a couple of weeks ago. The appropriate time has not occurred yet.
I stopped for lunch. I am thinking how Las Vegas is the city of gun shows which I hear we cannot regulate. It is an impossibility. We can send a man to the moon but regulating gun shows is beyond our reach. So you can buy a gun without a background check at gun shows because we do not have the technology to run background checks. Now gun shops do it all the time but it is beyond the capacity of our technology without invasion of the gun owners’ rights. The waiter comes to my table and swipes my card and I sign his handheld credit card machine with my fingernail. I sure hope my credit card is not over its amount or I will have trouble paying for my meal.
So I am back in my car and they say Congress is praying for the victims of Las Vegas. This seems appropriate. Taking my cue from them I stop my car and pray that I can deposit my check to cover my debit card lunch expenses before they are registered. It occurs to me it is probably a better use of my time to wait for a more appropriate time to deposit the check. Thank-you Congress the problem is solved.
So I finally make it home. I read on the computer that gun sales are up because gun owners are afraid guns may be banned. I think I need to predict mass shootings so I can invest in gun companies and make grand profits. I come across pictures of Vegas victims on the internet. My head spins; I have lost the ability to feel sorrow; mass shootings are too commonplace. Maybe this is what they mean when they say wait until an appropriate time to talk about gun control. The right time is when I am too numb to care. 
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