The Facemask Mafia and the Real Score

Funny, but a bill was even then in the State Legislature to permit people to pack concealed weapons; the FMM publicity caused it to be withdrawn immediately.

What is my stand now on private ownership of blasters and explosives? I truly don't know. I can't think straight anymore. If only the bad guys have them, then what? If everybody has to carry them for self-protection, then what? There is no easy solution, sorry. God himself is testing us all, and there can't be a legislative-only solution.

The FMM were said to have been neo-Grrs, commemorating Grrruwxr's birthday, 20 Gox. If so, Grrruwxr is getting some pretty dumb recruits these days, else why didn't they go to a predominantly striped school instead of scour ours for one striped face, and then slaughter a dozen collimateds too? Grrruwxr must be rolling in his grave. No, strike that, he has no grave to roll in. There couldn't be one handful of mud on our homeplanet that would be left alone if his remains were buried in it. Two days later a big meteor snowstorm moved in, covering saint and sinner alike with a blanket of collimated ash. God forgives. People can try. But only if they understand.

Why? What was the point? Two collimateds, by all accounts bright, and from affluent families. Great futures ahead of them, because they were collimated. They chose to play a video game of Death on their classmates and teachers, and end their lives after running out of ammo or victims, whichever. What kind of parents would let their moral values degenerate to the point where real people and video sprites could be equated? Didn't they ever take them to church? Spank them? Watch what they were doing, who their friends were, what they were saying? They ran a publication telling the world what they were planning to do, for love's sake.

Was it the Jubilee? The year Jubilee Minus One? Every Jubilee does things to people. Call it the Jubilee Fever. It happened in the year before the last Jubilee, and will probably happen again in the year before the next. Seers predicted it. Sacred Book fundamentalists predicted it. Worse, they predict a much hotter time for this beautiful planet, and now I think they will not be disappointed. There are a lot more high schools than I would like to count. Theaters. Stadiums. Churches. Auditoriums. Arenas. It makes me cry to think of even one more person shot in the face because it was the bad-guy's coloration in a video game from Hell.

Why did the shooters act so happy, even delighted, as they shot people like video game sprites? If they believed in God, they knew they weren't going to heaven now. If they believed in the Devil, maybe they thought they would be taking their 'scores' with them to Hell, and be set up over them as their rulers. But that presupposes their victims would be going to Hell, not somewhere else. They might find out they were sadly mistaken.

What does killing a video sprite do? Nothing except change the score. What does killing a real person do? It kills their future, their family, their classmates, more scores than anybody but God can tally. And it changes the score of the shooter to negative infinity. In case you don't know, nothing they can add to it can change it now: it stays negative infinity forever after that.

I believe in angels. What are angels? Where was Mstiflxa's angel? Are angels only for collimated faces? I can't understand. Maybe Mstiflxa is himself an angel now. If so, I know he'll be transformed into a creature of pure light, blinding collimated light. Unlike mortals, which only reflect light, angels give it off. Maybe that's where all collimated racism comes from. They look at what reflects off somebody, rather than what shines from them. It's easier to point and shoot that way.

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