Last night around 11:20 p.m. PST , 28 - year - old former Marine David Long walked into the the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks , California an opened ardour with a handgun , kill 12 citizenry and injuring 25 more before taking his own life . Just hours before the murders , this week ’s penultimate episode of American Horror Story featured a aggregative shooting .
The sheer volume and frequence of American heap shootingshas made it very common for television showsinvolvingthe human action of terrorismto bepulled before their scheduledairing timesbecause of their chronological proximityto actual shot taking billet in the real world . Because of this fact , there ’s never a “ correct ” clip for TV shows to render mass shootingsor even really point out on them . But , because it ’s inconceivable for a telly connection to foresee when a terrorist will resolve to open fire on unsuspecting populace , that ’s what American Horror Story did this week and the series is stronger for it .
In the aftermath of the witch ’ attack on his most trusted advisor , the Antichrist Michael Langdon is now on the warpath , in addition to his pursuance to bring about the Revelation of Saint John the Divine . Though the latter of his goal requires a foresighted cognitive operation of steps he ca n’t quite image out on his own just yet , exact his revenge on the witch is a far elementary undertaking that he bear out in a brutally human , though nonetheless monstrous path . With the android Miriam Mead by his side , Michael descends on the witches ’ household , break up them while they ’re performing a ritual of protection , and proceeds to murder them with a gun built into Miriam ’s limb .
Though they themselves are arm with an array of magical powers , being caught all incognizant in what they assumed was the safety of their home makes the witches vulnerable . One by one , they ’re gun down ; on a higher floor , Cordelia , Myrtle , and Mallory cursorily realize what ’s happening on the soil floor . Michael is n’t just killing the witch , he ’s also taking the time to wholly demolish their souls , making it impossible for them to be upraise through traditional charming means . Michael ’s attack on the witches is devastating in a way that many of American Horror Story ’s murders have n’t been in the past for a number of reasons , chief among them being that it ’s an all - too - naturalistic sort of terrorism that take more lives here in America more than it does anywhere else in the world . Psychopathic clowns and hotel - bound vampires are not problem that people have to be concerned about here in the genuine world . Mass shootings are .
fall back so many of their sisters forces Apocalypse ’s surviving witches to view that they ’ve unfeignedly lost the war to save the world from destruction despite their best cause . But , this being the season ’s 2nd - to - last episode , they ’ve get one last method acting of action at their disposal that might be able to turn the tide . In the clip since the crone have determined that Mallory might actually be their next Supreme ( and not Michael as they ’d antecedently put on ) , the fair sex have arrive to take over that she might be capable of feats that only a beldam coming into her powerfulness in reply to the impending Revelation of Saint John the Divine would be . While the power to project one ’s self through time is a long - bruit charming ability that beldam have reason might be potential , Myrtle explains that all previous attempts have leave in death . But , consider the circumstances the witches find themselves in , sending Mallory back in time to prevent the shooting is their last ditch movement to put things correct .
This is not the first time American Horror Story has centered on shooter violence ; Tate Langdon ( Michael ’s biological Father-God ) fritter up his high school in the show ’s first season . But what make this calendar week ’s episode so hard to manage with is the unambiguously unfortunate timing of case . It ’s more than probable that had the Thousand Oaks shooting taken piazza any time before American Horror Story ’s most recent episode , FX would have only delayed airing it out of respect for the victims . It would n’t be the first time the show change in response to actual world events . Last year , during the time of year ’s 7th time of year , Cult , an episode featuring a mint shot was altered at the last minuteto be less gruesome following the shot in Las Vegas .
Given American Horror Story ’s propensity for coterie , it would have been leisurely for the show ’s manipulation of a mass shot to come across as look deaf and glib . The witch might have had an all - out conflict with the Antichrist and his android henchwoman to make the ham - fisted point that the key to stopping accelerator pedal violence is to simply be build up with someone to protect one ’s ego . Instead , though , the show make the period that the best and most effectual way to fight gunman violence is to ensure that it does n’t happen in the first spot by making sure that a hired gun never has the opportunity to carry out their plans .
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