Good Shepherd Apostolic Lutheran Church. Ironwood, Michigan

Listening to AM radio in Michigan, I speed past rusted filling stations, bait shops, and strip malls. Old waltzes drift through the static, screaming voices howl about the second amendment, and callers connect the dots between government conspiracies, hellfire, traffic accidents, and factory explosions.

A man tried to chop off his arm last night at a diner in Monterey, California. He thought he injected an air bubble after shooting up some heroin, so he grabbed a butcher knife and -

I change the station.
“Welcome back to Gun Talk, you’re on the air.”
“Any advice on the best place to buy a thousand rounds?”