Friday, December 21, 2012

What is it about the second amendment?



The guy who taught my concealed carry class, regularly sends out an email whenever he gets a new supply of guns into his shop.

Last Friday, literally minutes before the New Town shootings, I received one noting several different Bushmasters he just got in.

I had called my brother in law (who's a police office and gun aficionado), to see which of those he thought was the best deal.

Before my brother in law could get back to me, the dealer called to tell me he only had one left. So I bought it.

Of course, as of today, the gun is just a really expensive club since .223 ammunition is next to impossible to find and I won't pay price gougers who have hoarded the stuff.

When I brought the gun in the house and told my wife it was one of her Christmas presents, she just about had a cow.

As I told her, you're better off having a gun you don't need than needing a gun you don't have.

What's been somewhat predictable in this whole gun discussion is how many potential solutions have been presented and how, not one of them, would have prevented the massacre in Connecticut.

And then you have the Hollywood elite who throw out such quotes like Wayne Lapierre should be shot in the nuts.

Did it ever occur to any of these idiots that there's a reason no one has ever spree killed in a police station, any NRA office, a gun store or target shooting facility?

Conversely, there's a reason these nut bags head to schools and other non armed facilities?

I've offered that one of the reasons these idiots do these shootings is for the glory. There's probably no better quote to address this than this one.............

The results of the Gun Free School Zone act’s passage have been devastating. The first mass shooting in a school since before 1900 occurred in 1997. As prominent researcher John Lott has noted, mass shooters are attracted to defenseless victim zones. While zones that ban armed citizens are a tiny percentage of the nation’s area, according to Lott, only one of the “successful” (four or more victims) mass shootings in the past thirty years occurred outside of a defenseless victim zone (gun free zone).

Why do mass shooters chose defenseless victim zones? Because they want the fame that goes with the media attention that a mass killer gets, and to get the attention, they have to kill a lot of people. If they are stopped by an armed citizen, they lose their chance to make the “record books”, and there is no point in mass killing.


So before we go and assault the 2nd amendment, let's propose these additional laws


1)  Let's ban all violent video games........ It appears that the CT killer played these games endlessly.

2)  Let's ban the media from reporting the names of any spree killer of more than four people....... I've noted on this blog that the prevalence of streakers and other drunken idiots running on playing fields at sporting events ceased right after the media quit showing them.

3)  Let's make it easier to lock up and treat mentally ill people who have made violent threats and/or shown the capacity to be violent. This really awesome piece illustrates the issue for a parent who has recognized the violent tendencies of her son but is essentially neutered to do anything about it.

Of course, you'll hear the Hollywood types hide behind the 1st amendment to continue producing their violent games.

The news media types will hide behind the first amendment saying it's in the public interest to know everything about the shooter, even as they report inaccurate information to the public.

And finally, the mental health community will protect the criminally insane, sighting the 4th amendment right to privacy.

But you won't hear any of these solutions come out of the Joe Biden committee now will you?








8 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) There is nothing wrong with violent video games--if you ban violent video games to "protect children" we should also ban the evening news.

2) Malcolm Gladwell documented epidemics of suicide following this same pattern in his book "The Tipping Point", which is why suicides aren't publicized. I agree that the media should call shooters "John Doe" but there shouldn't be a law/ban against it. The major media outlets banded together when Fox News was kicked out the White House Press Pool for the sake of freedom of speech, so you'd think they'd unite on this point as well.

3) I don't think it is a matter of making it easier to lock up/treat mental cases, but our culture accepting and embracing vulnerability. Parents think their babies are perfect when they are born and spend their lives making sure it stays that way because they can't accept that their kids have shortcomings and are imperfect. I have an aunt who refused to acknowledge her son was legally blind and severely autistic until he was 7 years old because she had to have the perfect TV family and accepting that her son was imperfect wasn't an option. My mother-in-law is going through the same BS with her severely ADHD son--he is perfect and doesn't need modern medicine.

Anonymous said...

I love how all you NRA FAGGOTS blame everything except guns for gun violence.

You fascist faggots have no problem shitting all over the First Amendment to protect your precious Second Amendment. I mean, really, violent video games? Hello, 1999 called, they want their insane retarded theory back. Either you closet queens actually believe that violent media makes people magically turn into mindless killing machines (in which case you're all epically stupid), or else you know what a crock of shit that explanation really is but just dig for a scapegoat (which makes you liars).

Even if there were any merit to your bullshit hypothesis (there's really not), without guns available, the worse that violent video game addicts might do is point their fingers and shout "BANG!"

The bottom line is, notwithstanding what that cocksucker Wayne LaPierre says (really what kind of name for an American guy is that), there is no civilian need for an AR-15. Well, except maybe for you NRA members to feel better about your miniscule cocks.

Dan da Mann said...

Any other words of wisdom from Mr. Wayne LaQueer?

Anonymous said...

There IS a civilian need for an AR-15. We may live in a civilized society, but what happens when shit hits the fan? Ask the people of Syria, Egypt, Libya, North Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan if there is a need for civilians to have access to "military style" weapons. When society breaks down, which all societies do in due time, history has shown us there are very few "Cincinnatus" types who are humble and compassionate leaders--its usually the egomaniacal sociopaths that end up killing their way into a dictatorship and oppressing the masses.

Signed,

An NRA faggot

gordon gekko said...

You know, I'd have a lot more respect for those first two anonymous comments if they would

1) Post their real names and addresses.

2) Note on their doors and windows that their homes are gun free zones.

The fact is, you anti gun douche bags benefit from herd immunity.

Criminals don't bust into your homes and take what they want for fear that a gun owner like me might be on the other side of the door waiting to blast them a new asshole.

Anonymous said...

@ Anonymous (Signed: "An NRA Faggot"):

I reiterate, there is no civilian need for an AR-15. (Unless you think there is a civilian need for an M1 Abrams, F16, anthrax, Sarin gas, Soman nerve agent, nuclear weaponry?)

We may live in a civilized society, but what happens when shit hits the fan? Ask the people of Syria, Egypt, Libya, North Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan if there is a need for civilians to have access to "military style" weapons.

Funny, your only precedent is to use the example of Arabist/Islamist shit-holes like all your examples above (except for North Korea which is a shit hole, but not an Islamist shit-hole), so I fail to see your point. Maybe you live in a fourth world shit-hole, or an Islamist shit-hole, in which case I pity you.

When society breaks down, which all societies do in due time, history has shown us there are very few "Cincinnatus" types who are humble and compassionate leaders--its usually the egomaniacal sociopaths that end up killing their way into a dictatorship and oppressing the masses.

Okay, so you fear that the "egomaniacal sociopaths" will be "killing their way into a dictatorship." But yet you trot out the "more guns less crime" cannard, which has been endlessly debunked. Sure, more guns in the hands of "good" people seems to be a bad idea, but less restriction will only make it that much easier for the bad guys to get guns anyways.

Also, I think it is painfully obvious that you are one of those neo-Confederate types. Because, we all know that our Islamo-Marxist nigger president is going to take all our guns and send packs of marauding niggers to kill YT. (I wonder what the overlap is between the National Rifle Association is and the neo-Confederate movement... Probably very high, and yes I am aware that the NRA was originally founded in Yankee land.) What you neo-Confederatards fail to grasp is that unless your right to bear arms covers heavy artillery, military aircraft and ground vehicles, ballistic missiles, explosive ordnance, bio-chem weapons, and even nukes, you are sitting ducks for any vestige of the US forces. Hey remember the last time y'all good old fools tried to battle tyrannical Washington? It did not turn out so well...

Anonymous said...

@ gordon gekko:

Clearly, Gay-don Gekko is another Internet toughguy, a keyboard kommando, who insists that anonymous commenters identify themselves and post their addresses. (You first you fucking pussy! After all, you got your guns to back you up since you are too much of a little bitch without them.)

No, us anti-gun "douche bags" benefit from a functioning society with laws and law enforcement. Not any kind of "herd" immunity. Maybe you gun-toting retards function at the level of herds like wild animals. (Okay that comparison is more than a little insulting to animals.)

Criminals don't bust into your homes and take what they want...

...because we have this thing called a police department. [Fixed that for you, Gordon Gaykko.] Have you heard?

..."gun owner like me might be on the other side of the door waiting to blast them a new asshole."

Whatever you say, twink. If your ultra-macho fantasies of heroic vigilante violence are what help you cope with your microscopic cock, then nothing I can say will help any further. Good luck with that.

gordon gekko said...

Hi! My name is gordon gekko of the taxmanblog and I am the biggest fucking faggot in Texas. In fact I actually beat Chuck Norris in a Gayest Cowboy in Texas contest.