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Clinging To Guns And God.

I rarely focus on the latest celebrity death or freeway chase or missing blonde teenager. But I hate guns and reject religion, so the mixture of the two gets my attention.
Yesterday, another sexually frustrated religious nut blew people away, thinking he'd be seeing Jesus as the pistol cooled.

George Sodini couldn't get laid, so he went to a fitness center in Pennsylvania and shot twelve people, killing three women, then himself.

According to ABC News, Sodini's online diary--since removed--included this hopeless fantasy: "Maybe soon, I will see God and Jesus. At least that is what I was told. Eternal life does NOT depend on works. If it did, we will all be in hell...I was reading the Bible and The Integrity of God beginning yesterday, because soon I will see them."

Guns and God. Again.

According to the New York Times, Sodini's diary entry of December 29, 2008 read, “I actually look good...I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me — over an 18 or 25-year period. That is how I see it. Thirty million is my rough guesstimate of how many desirable single women there are...(a) man needs a woman for confidence. He gets a boost on the job, career, with other men, and everywhere else when he knows inside he has someone to spend the night with and who is also a friend.”

I guess if this twisted sadsack couldn't get a woman, his happiness was a warm gun.

Crazy Talk.

I'll place partial responsibility for the Pittsburgh cop killings where I feel it belongs: squarely in the lap of the right-wing echo chamber, which seems intent on whipping its base into blind rage over everything from an imagined Obama gun ban to imagined socialism. 

From KDKA & the AP:

A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. 
Friends said 23 year-old Richard Poplawski feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns. 
Three officers were killed.
Police planned to release more details at a 3 p.m. news conference Saturday. 
Poplawski was arrested after a several-hour standoff. 
One witness reported hearing hundreds of shots. 
The shootings occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot March 21 in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001. 
Poplawski's friends at the scene described him as a young man who thought the Obama administration would ban guns. 
One friend, Edward Perkovic, said Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." 
Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said he feared that President Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he "wasn't violently against Obama." 
Perkovic, a 22-year-old who said he was Poplawski's best friend, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, "Eddie, I am going to die today. ... Tell your family I love them and I love you." 
Perkovic said: "I heard gunshots and he hung up. ... He sounded like he was in pain, like he got shot." 
Vire, 23, said Poplawski once had an Internet talk show but that it wasn't successful. 
Vire said his friend had an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum. 
Another friend, Joe DiMarco, said Poplawski had been laid off from his job at a glass factory earlier this year. 
DiMarco said he didn't know the name of the company, but knew Poplawski had been upset about losing his job.