Captain America, RIP
June 30, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Reading about the funeral of Captain America, with all its attendant metaphors and allegories for current events, we learn this:
He was headed to court after refusing to sign the government’s Superhero Registration Act, a move that would have revealed his true identity. A sniper who fired from a rooftop was captured as police and Captain America’s military escort were left to cope with chaos in the streets.
Certainly we can blame government bureaucracy for making him a target, right?
But something far more sinister is afoot.
We also learn this:
After 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull, the red, white and blue leader of the Avengers was felled by an assassin’s bullet on the steps of a New York federal courthouse.
Aha! There’s the flaw in the story line. Guns are illegal in New York City. Surely the assassin should have been too scared of gun law prosecution to have a bullet-based weapon.
Either he really used a crossbow, or the whole thing happened in Virginia.
Outdoor Adventure said,
July 1, 2007 @ 1:34 am
Still can’t be… murder is illegal in NY too! I am surprised that after banning guns and murder, that both don’t stop happening. Are the citizens ignorant to the laws?
Every store that I see here in AZ that says no guns allowed should have a no shoplifting allowed sign right next to it.