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The Weekend's Body Count: Just Another Saturday in America?

So, another Saturday, another pile of bodies. Mission Landscaping in San Antonio, some landscaping business I've never heard of, turns into a goddamn shooting gallery at 7:45 in the morning. Four dead, including the shooter. Four people dead after shooting at landscaping business, including suspect - WOAI Then, down in Tampa, some idiot street racer plows into a business, racking up another four dead and nine injured. What the hell is going on?

"Senseless tragedy," Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw bleats. Give me a break. Senseless? No, Chief, it's predictable. It's the goddamn cost of doing business in a country drowning in guns and fueled by morons with souped-up engines.

The Banality of Violence

We're so desensitized, aren't we? A shooting at a landscaping company barely registers. Oh, a disgruntled employee? A random act of violence? Who cares? We've got AI news today, top business news today, and offcourse, the latest Instagram updates to obsess over. Four lives snuffed out, and it's just another blip on the 24-hour news cycle. Is this what we've become?

The cops in San Antonio are saying the shooting "was not random." Okay, great. Does that make it any less tragic for the families of the victims? Does knowing there was a reason for the carnage somehow ease the pain? I doubt it. What was the reason? A lover's quarrel gone wrong? A business dispute that escalated? We don't know, and honestly, I'm not sure I even care. The why is irrelevant when the what is four dead bodies.

And the street racing in Tampa? A 22-year-old punk named Silas Sampson, charged with four counts of vehicular homicide. He was allegedly street racing and then tried to outrun the cops. So, let me get this straight: he was already breaking the law, and then he decided to double down and turn it into a high-speed chase through a populated area? Darwinism in action, I guess, except innocent people paid the price.

The Normalization of Mayhem

It's like we're living in some twisted version of "Groundhog Day," except instead of reliving the same day, we're reliving the same tragedies over and over again. Mass shootings, car crashes, senseless acts of violence... it's the goddamn American anthem at this point.

Wilmer Perez was "anxiously waiting for news about his aunt who worked at Mission Landscaping." I can only imagine the horror, the gut-wrenching fear of not knowing if your loved one is alive or dead. And for what? Because some loser decided to take out his rage on his coworkers? Because some idiot wanted to show off his driving skills?

It's all so pointless, so utterly, devastatingly pointless.

Then again, maybe I'm being too harsh. Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a species that seems hell-bent on self-destruction. But let's be real, this ain't normal. This ain't the way things should be.

Is This All We're Worth?

So, what's the real story here? Is it about gun control? Is it about reckless driving? Is it about mental health? Yeah, probably all of the above. But it's also about something deeper, something more fundamental: it's about a society that has lost its goddamn mind. A society that values guns over lives, speed over safety, and outrage over empathy. And until we fix that, we're just going to keep burying bodies.