Gun Town
2025-11-04 22:46:58.276336+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Jef Poskanzer @jef@mastodon.social
Gun Town
There's a town near you where most of the residents spend much of their days running around with guns. The guns are real. They are loaded with real bullets. Their fingers are on the triggers. But they don't pull the triggers, they just yell "BANG, BANG, BANG!"
Except occasionally something happens. Maybe they hit a bump. Or they are distracted by their cell phone. Or they had a little too much to drink before going out for a gun run. Or they see a non-gun person and want to teach them a lesson.
The gun goes off.
The gun people nod sadly to each other. "Such a tragic accident," they say. The police arrive, interview people, and make a report: "Accident." The dead are not interviewed. Then everyone runs off yelling "BANG, BANG, BANG!"
Of course we don't live in Gun Town. That place is obviously absurd and could never exist in real life.
We live in nice safe Car Town.