Sometimes I'm joking, sometimes I mean it

[justalurkr]

Usually I'm joking when I say society should snap a chastity belt on every child at puberty and disallow drinking, smoking, voting and the owning or handling of firearms until the child has supported themselves on their own income (no student loans allowed) for at least a year and it'd be a felony to enable a belted individual to do any of the above. One successful financial audit (you can't be up to your belt in debt,) and the device comes off and you're free to be a grownup. I was seriously freaked out and angry yesterday in a way I haven't been in a long time (and thought wasn't possible on my current medical cocktail, to be overly frank.) I have a nasty feeling this is going to be someone's personal domestic bullshit, of which we all have plenty and manage to keep to our families, costing a community 20 of its most vulnerable members and six of its most useful.

I am calmer today. The communities of Newtown and Hoboken are in my thoughts for peace and recovery.