God knows where we'd be without celebrity advice.
Whether it's Johnny Borrell's marvellously intellectual discourse on how to save the environment by buying his records, or Geri Halliwell's self-help video series Five Easy Yoga Steps To Obtaining A Perfect Body, Buying A Little Dog And Carrying It Around In A Bag As Some Latent Effort To Pretend It's A Baby, Then Weeping Into Your Blonde-Dye Stained Pillow About Your Futile, Futile Excuse For A Career, they all know damn well how to lend a helping hand.
Yep – those 'slebs sure are useful. And now one more of the blighters is joining the fray. Step forward podgy Scientologist John Travolta, who evidently stopped repeating the mantra "I didn't know how bad Broken Arrow was going to be, it wasn't my fault" under his breath long enough to share his thoughts on school shootings.
School shootings, eh? That's a big issue. Nary a month goes by without some mad American teenager strapping all sorts of 'deer-killing' utensils to their frame and painting their peaceful classrooms and corridors an unnecessary shade of blood.
So what's the reasoning behind all of this? Social deprivation? An uncaring elitist culture that only serves to alienate the disaffected? Mental health issues being swept under the carpet? The little matter of being able to buy guns?
Cease your questions, fools! John Travolta has got the whole thing figured out. He shared his thoughts with W magazine:
“I still think that if you analyse most of the school shootings, it is not gun control. It is psychotropic drugs at the bottom of it."
Righty-ho, then. So next time a youngster goes into an armoury and picks up enough firepower to level a small nation, we should turn a blind eye… but if Chad and Randy want to head on down to Cowpoke Lake and drop LSD in the sunshine, that's obviously a cause for concern.
Maybe John Travolta should sit down for a moment, think things through and heed the words of comedian Eddie Izzard: "Guns don't kill people. People do. But I think the gun helps."
Oh – and he could maybe stop believing in all that nonsense about aliens. While he's at it.
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Internet Pedant says
Very brave, hecklerspray! But, please beware of the All Seeing Eye of the Church of Scatology….
Mithaearon says
Xenu will get you….
Cyberian says
Heckler, you dim-witted twit…the psychotropic drugs Travolta was talking about were of the pharmaceutical ilk! The ones PRESCRIBED to these shooters by the EXPERTS ostensibly dealing with mental illness. Every sinlge one of the anti-depressant drugs in use by today’s mental health industry comes with a detailed disclaimer, enumerating the dangerous side-effects, invariably dealing with thoughts of self-destruction and/or causing grievous harm to others.
Travolta is right on the money, and it has nothing to do with Scientology…but then that wouldn’t have made as good a blurb for your publicity purposes would it?
Gilbert Wham says
“Every sinlge one of the anti-depressant drugs in use by today’s mental health industry comes with a detailed disclaimer, enumerating the dangerous side-effects, invariably dealing with thoughts of self-destruction and/or causing grievous harm to others.“(my emphasis).
No they fucking don’t. Whilst some (SSRIs and MAOIs for instance) can exacerbate mania or psychosis, and their prescription is contra-indicated for such conditions, you my friend, are talking out of your arse. Every sinlge one of the anti-depressant drugs in use by today’s mental health industry comes with a detailed disclaimer, enumerating the dangerous side-effects, invariably dealing with thoughts of self-destruction and/or causing grievous harm to others.ery defensive of Johnyboy also. Are you touched by Xenu’s appendage perhaps? Methinks the lady doth protest too much, hmmm?
Gilbert Wham says
Gah, well THAT makes no sense now, does it? Bugger.
Internet Pedant says
Xena didn’t have an appendage! In fact, I suspect that she didn’t even like boys *childish titter*
whomitmayconcern says
Hard to find a bigger wanker than Travolta unless it’s the Scientology cult en masse.
Sure, prescription drugs MAY play a role in some school shootings, but the root of that particular phenomenon is kids being bullied by peers. Some turn the abuse in on themselves and commit suicide, others lash out with gunfire.
Travolta ought to concentrate on prancing about in high heels and delivering his next two-note performance. He has all the range, ability and insight of a turnip.