Full disclosure : my folks come from Windsor Ontario, but its those crazy scary people to the NORTH of them that is on my mind today.
Most of Michigan is to the North of Windsor and even in a gun-crazed America, this state sticks out - it really loves its guns.
You’ve all heard about the Michigan plot to blow up bridges (hopefully not the Ambassador Bridge as that would have crippled our Canadian economy), overthrow governments and kill governors and their kids.
But I bet you might have already forgotten the reaction when photos emerged of armed men terrorizing the Michigan legislature, all because the (female) governor wanted people* to wear masks to prevent Covid at a time when Michigan was a leading death-zone for Covid.
* Opps ! I meant men : all because a woman dared to ask the men in the family to play it safe, for the sake of the kids...
Right - there was no reaction - because the greater American public has come to expect this sort of frontier mentality from Michigan residents to the north and west of Detroit.
(Not that Detroit itself is the home of Pollyanna and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm either - far from it.)
I bring this all up to set the context for something Paul Wortman said about his son Gabriel’s obsession with owning - and later using - illegal firearms.
Paul claimed Gabriel never got it from either side of his parents but that he believed he acquired this obsession from hanging around the second husband of Paul’s mom, Doris.
A man from Michigan. (Doris’s family was from a part of Ontario where the local American media in the gun-crazed part of Michigan had a clear signal into Canada across the water.)
Luckily no dead as the result of this latest expression of Michigan gun culture. But in Nova Scotia ? Twenty four dead.....
PS : Michigan’s governor pluckily stuck to her covid rules - till a bent judge just threw them out - and the state now has one of the lowest Covid rates in America....
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