Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Lada Gaga's Bra Gun Defended

Whenever something goes wrong, I mean real wrong, it is normal to want to find a way to fix it. I am thinking of the Connecticut mass murder of children last December. You want to do something tofix the unfixable, you want it to go away and never have it happen again. So, over and above the misfit murderer, there has to be fingers pointed, knuckles smacked.

 And at Newtown, one culprit is easy: weapons that have no business in civilians hands, weapons so vile their only possible reason for having them is because:

1. You expect a civil war

Or

2.  You wanna do some serious damage.

 And while I am all for an armed civilian militia, I certainly don’t approve of the sort of heavy weapons in the arms of ordinary people that made Newtown possible.

Still, surely part of the problem was Adam Lanza was a fruit and nutcase? I mean without any weapons, Lanza could’ve built a bomb. If somebody wants to kill you, the chances of you dying are excellent. So while I don’t disagree with better gun laws, I don’t agree that people don’t have the right to bare arms.

And as always happens when a problem is widened so that by solving it you can solve the nature of a violent society, people lose the plot entirely. Violence is endemic because humans are violent animals. Dangerous, vicous, we kill everything that moves. And while we have our good angels, we are what we are and have to be protected from ourselves.

And protect ourselves from others.

Which brings me to the reason for this post, the reaction to :Lady Gaga’s bra with guns out she has begun wearing on the current tour. It takes a rare type of imbecile to think that the tragedy in Newtown is in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER tied to to Lady Gaga or entertainment or games or anything else and that therfore LG shouldn’t wear her bra gun thingy. A toy gun, of course. We live in a society where boys can’t play cowboys and indians without getting sanctioned, a society where are natural violent feelings are given NOWHERE TO BE USED AS PLAY, and therefore are not subsumed into our Super Ego, the way they are meant to be.

This is somewhat basic stuff pop pickers, and why morons misunderstand the nature of violence, learnt he wrong lessons… actually, what is the right lesson?

It certainly isn’t to start banning the portrayal of guns and pretend violence doesn’t exist.