I find it funny that the government wants to ban a symbol originally used to represent the rights of individual states right before it completely fucks over the rights of individual states.
Congratulations, United Echo Chamber of America, I hope you all get exactly what you wanted: 320 million people ruled over by a handful of people who don’t give a shit about you.
how many more innocent lives must be taken before stricter gun control is established?
how many more states must flood or drought before climate change is taken seriously?
How will stricter gun control stop mass shootings? I’m all ears.
“Bobby Shaw, a 77-year old Tyler, Texas, homeowner shot and killed a burglar who allegedly invaded Shaw’s home. Shaw, who was in his bedroom, heard glass breaking late one December night. He grabbed a shotgun and went to investigate. Shaw spotted an intruder wielding a large too. When the man charged, Shaw shot him. (Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tyler Texas, 12/10/2014). “
Should we take away a 77 year old mans right to defend his life because some psychos use firearms illegally?
Mental ills were a source of shame, especially for soldiers bred on Victorian notions of manliness and courage
Civil War combat, by comparison, was concentrated and personal, featuring large-scale battles in which bullets rather than bombs or missiles caused over 90 percent of the carnage. Most troops fought on foot, marching in tight formation and firing at relatively close range.
As a result, units were often cut down en masse, showering survivors with the blood, brains and body parts of their comrades.
Though geographically less distant from home than soldiers in foreign wars, most Civil War servicemen were farm boys, in their teens or early 20s, who had rarely if ever traveled far from family and familiar surrounds. Enlistments typically lasted three years and in contrast to today, soldiers couldn’t phone or Skype with loved ones. These conditions contributed to what Civil War doctors called “nostalgia,” a centuries-old term for despair and homesickness so severe that soldiers became listless and emaciated and sometimes died.
Soldiers carried on for years before killing themselves or being committed to insane asylums.
Wallace Woodford flailed in his sleep, dreaming that he was still searching for food at Andersonville. He perished at age 22, and was buried beneath a headstone that reads: “8 months a sufferer in Rebel prison; He came home to die.”
William Hancock, who had gone off to war “a strong young man,” his sister wrote, returned so “broken in body and mind” that he didn’t know his own name.
Elijah Boswell, who “Sobbed & cried & imagined that some one was going to kill him,” screaming “the rebels was after him.”
Others were brought to the asylum because they barricaded themselves in rooms, awake all night with weapons at the ready.
A veteran who narrowly survived an artillery barrage would shout at his wife, “Don’t you hear them bombarding?” Another, shot in the side during the war, was described upon admission as sleepless, suicidal and convinced “he is bleeding to death from imaginary wounds.”
One file includes a photograph of the patient, in old age, still wearing his uniform four decades after being admitted at the end of the Civil War with “Acute Suicidal Melancholia.”
A 25-year-old corporal from Michigan saw combat for the first time at the Seven Days Battle in Virginia, where he was shot in the right arm. Doctors amputated his shattered limb close to the shoulder, causing a severe hemorrhage. Hildt survived his physical wound but was transferred to the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington D.C., suffering from “acute mania.”
months and then years passed, without improvement. Hildt remained withdrawn, apathetic, and at times so “excited and disturbed” that he hit other patients at the asylum. He finally died there in 1911—casualty of a war he’d volunteered to fight a half-century before.
Doctors were sympathetic but unable to do much for the veterans in their care. Treatment consisted of “moral therapy,” a regime of rest and light labor in the hospital gardens, which perched atop what was once a peaceful and bucolic hilltop in Anacostia. Doctors also administered opiates, stimulants and “tonics,” such as a punch made of milk, eggs, sugar and whiskey. All this may have provided temporary relief to patients. But most Civil War veterans who entered the asylum never left it…
I saw your message/email/text/voicemail and told myself I’d return it later when I was more awake/alert/in a better mood/had more information and I pretty much forgot about it until now I’m sorry I’m trash: an autobiography
"I'm like, Che Guevara with bling on, I'm complex" - Jay Z "The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities" - Che Guevara
another from the zine, my 3 fave F’s - Fashion, Flesh, Flowers
The American Founders as Dril Tweets
George Washington: basicly a sniper rifle that can switch gears and turn into a baseball bat if the situaiton demands it. an armymans ultimate tool
James Madison: THIngs other people like: being bastards, being Uniformly tasteless THINGS I LIKE: Being reasonably kind, and trying to help, when i can
Ben Franklin: the doctor reveals my blood pressure is 420 over 69. i hoot & holler outta the building while a bunch of losers try to tell me that im dying
John Adams: THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset. ME: I agree
Abigail Adams: “This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender,” i holler as i overturn my uncle’s barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
Alexander Hamilton: all young men Must be fitted for a good Italian suit, ideally by age 4. i will not fucking apologize or back down from this
Thomas Jefferson: (POsturing like a dip shit at the public pool) My father owns no small number of shares at the smirnoff ice company. Let me be the lifeguard
Marquis de Lafayette: another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
Dolley Madison: looking to spice up my marriage with pg13 comedies about camping
Aaaron Burr: i feel like getting shot would;nt be that bad if you knew how to properly "body spin " away from the bullet or slap it away with your hand
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