Ignorance Fuels Great Violence

“Q” sign while waiting to see President Trump

From this:

A 53-year-old Michigan man who was consumed by “Stop the steal” and QAnon conspiracies allegedly shot his wife, daughter, and their dog at their suburban Detroit home early Sunday morning, killing his wife and the dog.

“My Qdad snapped and killed my family this morning,” Rebecca Lanis, 21, wrote on (a blog) Sunday, hours before the Detroit police and media first reported the details of the shooting.

She wrote that “growing up, my parents were extremely loving and happy people. I always had a special bond with both my parents.” But, she said, things began to change with her father a couple of years ago, after former President Donald Trump contested the results of the 2020 presidential election.

One wonders how it’s possible that this doesn’t happen more often.

Suppose you’re convinced, via whatever source of misinformation, that a supremely capable billionaire businessman tried in vain to save his country from socialism, only to be thwarted by a Deep State that favors all the things you hate: open borders, government control of our bodies, corrupt scientists terrorizing the world about the climate change hoax, etc.

How can mayhem not stem from this? We have no means to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of lunatics, which, IMO, means that we’re lucky not to see stories like this far more frequently.