Before I start discussing this topic, I just want to highlight that I had no idea who he was when I first heard the news. But the biggest thing I want to highlight is that his audience immediately reacted the way they did because it instilled fear that they were next, especially before the shooter was identified. The saddest thing is that this is what school children are going through every time there is a shooting. While I was in school the shootings were still so infrequent that it didn’t phase me as much as it might a student today. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to focus on actually learning or trying to enjoy your life when someone you care about, look up to, or who you relate to is killed.

But I do believe that this fear can create irrational thinking and that some of what celebrity/politician/businessmen people *cough* Musk *cough* say might not be in the best interest of citizens at large. They have a wide audience they speak to yet 99% of them cannot relate… He’s the richest man in the world, but I digress.

Having a following is tough. I don’t have that. I would need hours upon hours of practice to get to the level of what Charlie Kirk accomplished, even though I would imagine my discussion points a bit different. I do believe that if I had just 15 minutes to interview Trump I could save this country from a long horrid civil war that plunges us into the dark ages while other countries stand around looking at each other trying to figure out what to do, or worse, fight among themselves. But maybe this thinking is just foolish. I know that Trump thinks this way too-His meetings with Putin show little progress, but that is a bit of a different comparison. I think the language and cultural divide between the two is too great for him to be able to solve the war in Ukraine so easily. Maybe the divide between Trumps celeb status and my simple middle class status is too great for me to make a difference likewise. But I can dream. I can imagine opening his mind to the possibilities of all that he has control of. The massive military complex aside, if he gained the trust of the liberals, there’s unlimited possibilities. We truly can have everything and this division is only necessary because pointing fingers is so easy. Everyone has their favorite direction to point.

Mine would be pollution. I blame nearly every social issue on pollution. Carbon monoxide, microplastics, etc… There’s way more than they tell us about, and way more than they know about. It affects everyone to different degrees and complicates the matter because we cannot sense, or quantify its affects. But it’s there. The environment we have created is just a small reflection of that we experienced through history. Speaking of Utah, they’re about to face a pollution disaster if that Great Lake dries up and the toxins from the lake get kicked into the air. I can’t imagine people in Salt Lake City not having to wear gas masks outside.

Forget about what carbon dioxide might do to the climate, and consider what the carbon monoxide, carbon nanoparticles does to pregnant women walking outside the next time you choose a vehicle. And that is something I would be willing to take a bullet speaking out against. A bullet fired by ancient Chinese technology, likely cursed thousands of years ago, if they prefer. If we want true American weapons we need the railgun. Let’s ditch the gunpowder curse and switch to a real American technology: magnetic propulsion. If we ban mass production powder weapons and fund development of mass production railguns, which could be smart guns through regulation, we could have AI that won’t fire if it detects it being aimed at a child, in a classroom or through a window. No need to ban gunpowder guns entirely. Just regulate the mass producers of them, and also still allow the hand made crafters to still make their masterpiece items which command respect from the owners who are less likely to use them as an instrument of societal sabotage because they are purchased for their engineering or craftsmanship.

End mass production of civilian gunpowder weapons. Start the mass production of smart railguns. Hell even in first person shooter games, you cannot aim a gun at a child or someone talking to you.

Lot’s to unload behind what I’m saying…

A railgun is required because you have to remove the physical mechanisms that hit the bullet – otherwise it’s too easy to modify the gun to override the smart safety mechanism.

Traditional gunpowder or cardtridge-bullet guns are great, simplicity is amazing and best to rely on, but in this day and age the few of us ruin good things for the most of us. It’s a shame, but If we want a solution, we have to engineer it.

The gun would rely on sensors to detect if it’s a child you’re pointing at. Easy to fool if you’re a midget perhaps, But not so easy to fool if you include an override for a child who is also aiming a gun at you.

Now the sensor could be fooled by a screen if it’s just a camera sensor because to get around that you just need to hold up a screen with a video of an assassin and you can shoot anything, so we’d need more things like laser range detection and/or lidar, radar, maybe also a sonar detector to confirm what’s being seen.

These things are not easy to create, but entirely do-able. There are still many variables and things I’ve overlooked. But We have to ask ourselves if the lives of our future generations are worth the peace of mind it could provide. Do we want to provide free will to shoot anything at the cost of school shootings, or do we want to limit that freedom, just a bit, and save kids?

The weapons civilians own still exist and it may take time to get people to turn them in – but we can expedite this by offering incentives when purchasing a smart weapon. A good price cut incentive, and instead of destroying these older Chinese style weapons they could be sent to armories at local bases, for soldiers or just stashed away to arm the public if needed. I don’t think any rational (mass produced) gunpowder weapon owner would turn down the opportunity to turn a gun in for a deal on a smart weapon that would not be able to conduct a school shooting, at the bare minimum. Would work well in highly populated areas, areas most vulnerable. We reduce the number of dumb weapons that the public has, while providing smart weapons that still work effectively when facing a threat, especially a gun being pointed at you.

Maybe a half baked idea, but I think with the right attention to detail, we can engineer away school shootings/maybe mass shootings too. The military and law enforcement could still own powder cartridge guns, but it wouldn’t hurt for them to have more sensors as well. Less imminent benefits from that, but every life saved is a life saved.

This was written not long after Jimmy Kimmel was cancelled, or fired, or his show taken down, however it transpired.

It’s not the first time this has happened-The Late Show was also cancelled in similar manner for similar reasons.

Say what you will about the legality of the issue. I want to know how this leadership style is working. I want to know why I should follow this leaders example and how. Am I to shut people down when they disagree with me? I think it would be poor choice, as from my life experience, I would be friendless and miserable with myself. I can’t force others to not speak poorly, but I can, as I have done, attempt to use my knowledge to explain why I don’t like others beliefs. If I follow this style of leadership I cannot be successful in really anything.

So where do we go from here? The agenda of this administration seems to increasingly target liberals. But what’s the goal, what will this pattern get us? What is it about their agenda that should motivate me to work hard, make money, improve society, and build a great country for these leaders. I’m very motivated by progress and consider myself an engineer. But if everything I’m working for has no end goal other than silencing a political party, I will off myself because there is no future. There is no hope. There is nothing worth living for when leadership holds cruelty at the highest virtue.

Yes, there are lots of sick minds in the country. But this is not inherently their fault. You cannot blame a liberal for changing their gender anymore than you can blame a toddler for wanting to stay up late. This environment we are part of makes us not human. Not like any other human that has ever existed, and we can no longer compare ourselves to historical figures. George Washington didn’t have carbon soot in his brain. He didn’t have microplastic building up in his arteries. The founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, they all lived in a vastly cleaner atmosphere. The evil spirits dug from hell itself that we have burned, coated cookware, made utensils from, and so ignorantly poisoned our bodies with are creating this division we cannot escape from. Just as a mentally ill person cannot see their own faults, a poisoned society cannot see their own faults either. The pollution is killing us. If the Secretary of health wants to start solving problems, we need massive emissions controls. We need massive regulatory legislation in every state which aims to ban 99% of the MILLIONS of different chemicals developed since WWII that have never before been inside our bodies. This is our problem, not demonizing others because we hold ourselves to be supreme over them.

Supremacy is an ideology best kept on the sports field, the battlefield, and if we turn American cities into a battlefield, the President is a hostile force. We don’t need a civil war, these issues have solutions. I don’t know what the administration has in plan because they refuse to share. They leave us in darkness, without painting a picture of what is to come, and only to guess the horrors that await as everything we pride ourselves in politically is slowly eroding before us.

What we need most right now is for the administration to outline their goals. To revise goals in accordance with those in regions that will not benefit from it. The separation of urban vs. rural life is nothing new and not going to go away. If we want good things, if we want people to stop being violent, we need both rural and urban life styles.

The rise in rural lifestyle supremacy is not wrong inherently, it’s wrong because it’s impractical for everyone to share the American dream in that manner. 300 million people cannot all enjoy a luxurious rural life simply because there is not enough space. The people living in cities not only create goods and services difficult to create otherwise, but they provide the ability for a peaceful rural life for those to enjoy. City dwellers have sacrificed luxury so that others may enjoy it.

So to answer my question about where we are going, I can only see that liberals will be forced into something analogous to concentration camps after the economy collapses and there isn’t enough food for the powers that be(mainly just the military) to feed them, so for ethics and efficiency it’s better for them to kill us. I don’t have any motivation to work for this leadership because this is the future they’re painting for me. Ok, fine, I’m just some psycho. But I’m not the only person and the thought that people under 18, just starting their lives out are likely also dwelling on a future of victimization by their own government is absolutely horrible.

If they don’t do something like, IDK create a collective American vision where libs and dems are getting along, that people actually can be motivated to be a worker or contribute to society, we will collapse under simple things like sabotage(or maybe great things like economic collapse) and it will snowball into fed defending themselves from it most likely, and hoarding indiscriminate populations into death camps.