On full moons and the latest shootings
To the Editor:
It's a New Year. First full moon, the wolf moon, named for the hungry packs that howl at night. During which time there are several shootings in crowded public places. Coincidence?
But there was something different about this recent group of gunmen - aside from noting the potential lunar influence. One of them was a senior citizen, a septuagenarian, instead of the usual tortured teen with a trigger. They wouldn't get upset over texting on a cell phone before a movie started! But this retired police captain in the Tampa area did.
And whether it was a case of vigilante justice or perhaps an oldster hopped up on eternal youth hormones putting him in the same physiological category as the younguns, or the impact of the moon phase on someone born under the susceptible sun sign of Cancer, or something else entirely, the pattern aberration bears more notice than it got.
Could grumpy grandpas with guns be the next trending cohort of men behaving badly on the slippery slope created by an expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment?
Karen Ann DeLuca