Death Is Easy

DEATH IS
EASY
by
Russell Madden


Freedom As If It Mattered

FREEDOM, 
As If
It Mattered
by
Russell Madden



Guardian Project

The Guardian
Project
by
Russell Madden




Random

RaNdoM
by
Russell Madden










 

Your Fondest Wish

by

Russell Madden

 

 





This is for any and all of those people who abhor and reject the very idea of an armed, innocent civilian being present when a murderer enters an area, whether on an island in the daytime with hundreds of children around or in a crowded movie theater in the dark. If you should ever find yourself in such a horrible situation, may you have your deepest desires fulfilled.

As you listen to the initial thundering cracks of the murderer’s weapon and have the terrified screams of the first victims tearing at your ears, rest easy knowing that the cold-blooded killer is the only one present with a gun. No gun carrying, law-abiding citizen will overcome his or her fear, his or her urge to flee and pull a firearm from its holster as more victims collapse before the relentless firing of the madman. As the acrid smell of cordite floats through the air with the thickening fog of smoke, you can take solace in the reality that a well-meaning citizen will not take aim at the mass murderer and fire his or her gun. As another victim crumples beside you, you need not fear that a gun owner will miss the intruder and hit another innocent and wound or kill that person. Smile in the fullness of your inner peace realizing that you need not experience a situation in which a citizen shoots the murderer dead and ends the bloodshed in a moment; or ends the murderer’s rampage but accidentally injures or kills someone else in the highly unlikely possibility that the bullet exits the murderer’s now lifeless shell and strikes another.

As the psycho’s next bullet tears into your flesh, you can rejoice in the fact that no one in your presence has any effective means of stopping your executioner. As your blood gushes from your falling body and soaks into the sugar-encrusted, aging carpet, close your eyes safe in the knowledge that the continued shots of the murderer and the seemingly endless shouts of horror and pain will stretch into the future you no longer have. As the beating of your heart erodes to quiescence and no more of your blood pools beneath you, you need not be disgusted that any armed innocent will stop the murderer’s streak of death before he either runs out of ammunition or tires of the destruction that has finally sated his bloodlust.

If you ever find yourself in such a hopeless, helpless situation, you can experience the ending to this sick scenario that you prefer, a termination of your existence that is untainted by the actions of someone who wanted –– somehow, some way –– to do the right thing, who tried to save himself and those nearby, both strangers and friends, even if he or she failed in the valiant attempt, even if that retaliation focused the murderer’s attention on a real threat to his obsession. Better for you and for all those dead and wounded that there be zero chance of succor rather than that there be even the smallest chance of a rescue.

May you have your fondest wish come to full fruition and may you suffer as you deserve.