Gotta talk to you about unnamed male friends. It seems I got a lot of these guys on social media, and some I have known for a long time.
But quite a few of them now. They reached their 40s or even 50s, and they got into guns. Some had liked guns at an earlier age. And a smaller percentage had past military experience, but most of them, nada.
These folks, a dozen or so guys--less than a handful of female friends also--are really getting into the so-called blood sports. Posting photos on FB or Instagram with a bloody dead animal. How lovely.
It's like a midlife crisis thing or something. White people reaching middle age and they decide they need to kill something. Join a gun club, start shooting, purchasing and collecting weapons, often semi-automatic rifles, and starting to hang with the other hunters. Lots of boasting and exhibitionism accompanies this phase. "Aaaaaaaaargh, primal scream. Let's do a meat hunt. Post it online."
If I don't unfriend them all when they see this, they can unfriend me. I won't mind. I am done with it. They scare me. Truly.
People picking up the thrill of the kill at such a late age. It strikes me as odd because I think oppositely. I think we should unlearn the thrill of the kill--whatever indifference to human and animal life we may have acquired early on in life, perhaps overloaded with hormones or recreational drugs, and basically not giving a fuck about anyone but ourselves. Say goodbye to all of that. Why embrace it now? Radical selfishness? Like the world doesn't have enough toxic self-centeredness?
Why don’t these guys discover Taoism or Buddhism or Yoga or something peaceful. Some of you claim to be Catholic--pray the Rosary outdoors then. Take a walk and count your beads. Do you think God wants you killing his creation for no good reason? Heck, learn to knit or paint. Want to be outdoors? Birdwatching is nice.
What is up with you guys? I have nothing in common with any of you anymore.
And they don't listen. Obstinate. I hate their love for guns, their posts with dead animals, and their boasts about deer hunts, "Oooooh, Aaaaah, got a rack of antlers, Rargh," quail season, or grouse season, or bear season…Fucking brag about shooting a friggin' duck. C'mon! They swim right up to you, you asshole!
To me it is horrifying. It makes me sick in the pit of my stomach. Not that I am opposed to people hunting for food in some instances but for the most part, I just find it disgusting.
It is cruel and unnecessary.
Be a human being. Be something better.
Don’t be a killer.
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