the counterprotesters

“In the midst of this were sev­er­al coun­ter­pro­test­ers wav­ing ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ flags and scream­ing ob­scen­i­ties at kids. One of them was this man walk­ing through the crowds with a loaded AR-15, scar­ing kids who were there to mourn their class­mates and call for change.”

THIS.

Do you *re­al­ly* want to call out the March For Our Lives pro­test­ers be­cause *some* teens around the same age ate Tide Pods when you your­self were com­mit­ting cred­it card fraud at 22?

If you hear that there are children,
moms,
and teach­ers peace­ful­ly as­sem­bling to ex­press their right to not be murdered
and your im­me­di­ate inclination
is to suit up in camo,
grab your AR15 and head down there to creep­i­ly lurk the crowd,
I am in no way jok­ing when I say that I le­git­i­mate­ly hope fate places your fat ass at the scene of the (in­evitable) next mass shoot­ing and your in­juries from it take days to end you. 

If you wan­na ter­ror­ize peo­ple over your Wal­mart Green Berets fan­ta­sy then it is my sin­cer­est wish that you die by that shit­ty sword.

It re­al­ly is a thing tho. A type that keeps repeating. 

Same mid­dle aged dudes that were once in shape. Maybe they did some time in the ser­vice but didn’t re­al­ly ex­cel at any part of it, yet they nev­er stop rep­ping it. 

Now they are IT or re­al­ty, try­ing to map as much of their Call of Duty ex­pe­ri­ence onto their mod­est ser­vice and crow­ing over their sub­ur­ban badass toys. 

It’s in­sane how of­ten the type repeats.

Lis­ten­ing to in­ter­views from #March­ForOurLives with the kids and it is deeply un­set­tling how wo­ven into their lives shoot­ings and po­ten­tial shoot­ings are. 

It’s al­ways present in their minds. That this is even a thing that we al­low to be­come a kind of nor­mal is lit­er­al­ly insane. 

And what do we get in re­turn for this am­bi­ent trau­ma? Even more mass mur­ders of chil­dren and mid­dle aged life fail­ures get to keep their bull­shit Red Dawn fantasies. 

It’s mad­ness. Every­one needs to get to the polls this No­vem­ber and shut down the Oak­ley dads and their goa­teed slack jaws.
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2018 Ja­son Malm­berg. Top fo­tos from and from.

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