The Ruler of Hell - Shooting, Speeches and Space

When has there ever been a quiet week?

Of course the awful shootings in Las Vegas once again highlights the debates about gun laws in the States.  And of course there'll be the repeated debates by the NRA that "guns don't kill people people do."

Well, you only need to look at those statistics above I think it's something culturally wrong in the States.

That argument guns don't kill people people do is perhaps reinforced by the fact that Canada has apparently the same number of firearms.  Look at the chart above and you see that Canada has a lot less deaths than America.

So what actually is the problem?

Do we look at the way Trump often reiterates the paranoia in America that all Americans are constantly in danger?

Even though the only danger Americans face is from other Americans.

The 'American Dream' is actually the 'American Nightmare'.

Which of course being us to racial problems.  You know, the idea black Americans are somehow different and dangerous to white Americans?  You remember the paranoia of that the American police often seem to have in murdering several completely innocent black people?  And the way that they then get away with these murders even though they're filmed.  Perhaps these incidents are judged by equally paranoid people.

We're facing the situation of the lack of education and America has a serious problem with this area.

You know I have personal very, very strong dislike this.  I'm actually married to black woman.  Ooo, I can hear some American readers gasping in horror about the idea of a white man marrying a black woman.

Yeah there are still some people who are so behind the times.  The only major differences between my wife and myself are what's between our legs.

As for her having breasts well the only major difference here is that my nipples are not functional.  (A bit of a shock here guys - your nipples are wired into breast growing mechanisms in your chest.  They're asleep in the vast majority of man.  There are some men who can develop breast cancer because there's the same tissue in men's chests as there is for women.  Check it up if you don't believe me.)

Do any of you feel that insecurity when I talk about the intimate physical connection between men and women?  Whatever your personal beliefs, the structure of male and female bodies are essentially very similar.  Our bodies have been designed that way.

Perhaps you can actually take it one step further and emphasize that similarity is supposed to indicate we should respect each other whatever our gender.

Well I got from the horrible mass shooting in Las Vegas to talking about gender issues.  How did that come about?

Tell you what - I'll give you something to think about.  Do any of you remember the film Fight Club?

I won't tell you of any of the major details in the film.  I would only say go and see it.

I remember showing my Dad this film.  I bought the DVD of it.  He didn't know what to expect but came to feel exactly the same enthusiasm about this film as I did.

Yes its violent.  Yes it's very surreal.  Yes Brad Pitt ends up sleeping with Helena Bonham Carter.  (That's as much as I'm going to tell you.)

Yes it does tell you how frustrated American men often are with American society.  The frustration is the fuel talked about in that film.

And that is the seed of the Las Vegas murders.  And many other of the terrible American serial killings.

So I'm sure you're thinking how does this link with my novel 'The Ruler of Hell: The Devil's Sister'?

The novel's all about frustration and thinking differently  Plus it's mainly set in present-day America but also in the mid 1800s during the Lincoln assassination and the mid 1900s in asylum incarceration.  (Satan is in the asylum in my book but the full reason why is not at all what you expect.)

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Now you're thinking how does this all connect with making speeches?

Will it doesn't - not directly anyway.  You see over in the UK we have the Conservative conference at present.  This is an annual gathering of the Conservative Party.  The Conservatives are the present Government in the UK.  Theresa May is the Prime Minister and she has had a very uncomfortable speech on the 4th October.  She was snuffling with a cold and a prankster gave her a P45 UK unemployment form during her speech.  She didn't shoot him.  (There's the link.)

We'll see what happens to her over the next few days.

Now, why did I include mentioning 'space' in the title?

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Maybe these people would like to live in a quieter place - like on a spaceship.

Well, now that NASA doesn't sent people into space it's up to private organizations who want to tempt people to buy tickets for going into space...

"Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars.  SpaceX has since developed the Falcon launch vehicle family and the Dragon spacecraft family, which both currently deliver payloads into Earth orbit."

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX]

We can look more at them after these space rocket making people have got things right.  (They've crashed one actually on the launchpad but anyway...)

Let's have a read of novels in the meantime: