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of nothing on Nostr: colorized, this is the exact footage that inspired Kurt Vonnegut to write Deadeye ...

colorized, this is the exact footage that inspired Kurt Vonnegut to write Deadeye Dick, a book about a kid firing a rifle randomly into a population center on a lark and killing a mother in her kitchen, who
1. immediately had local government willing to cover up the crime for him
2. was so broken up that he confessed anyway
3. got put in a cage and paraded through an angry mob and treated like a pariah forever
4. saw his mother go insane due to damage from a fireplace made of radioactive bricks taken from nuclear test sites
5. lived to see his hometown, with all the people who hated him, erased by a neutron bomb - deliberately used by the US Government as a test of the technology, partially out of personal annoyance with the insane mother - which Vonnegot describes as "like a fairy, killing all the people but leaving all of the property intact"