Armed Liberal

Says a character in John Brunner’s great book ’Stand on Zanzibar’.

It’s a book you ought to read, even if you don’t like SF.

One of the key features in the book is the prevalence of ‘muckers’…individuals who just lose it in the face of whatever social/population/personal collapse they are facing, and decide to just kill whoever is at hand. Some of them go high-tech, and blow up bridges.

I think we’re there, and I’ll ask the question: where does madness end and organized terrorism begin?

Because I’ll bet that the LAX Limo Driver (I won’t immortalize his name) was on that cusp.