Posted on 12/04/2015 2:05:38 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".....This will to dominate is what the more personal mass shootings have in common with the more impersonal ones that tend to get national news coverage. The goals are just smaller. Whereas a more typical shooter might shoot up his ex-wife and her co-workers to punish her for not wanting to be with him, more ambitious shooters like Elliot Rodger will rampage among strangers to punish women, collectively, for the same thing. Or perhaps an average shooter will unleash at a party because he thinks someone disrespected him, but your more grandiose types, modeling themselves on the Columbine killers, want to kill the world for not giving them the deference they feel due.
Whether personal or impersonal, mass shootings share two common features in nearly all cases: An overblown sense of entitlement and way too easy access to guns. Easy access to guns is a critical reason for some of the more famous, planned out rampages, of course, but it may be an even more relevant factor with the everyday mass shooting. After all, your typical mass shooting is a hothead who just went off. The reason said hothead had a gun is because we live in a culture that’s swimming in them.
More than that, the gun industry directly markets to men who are insecure and have a will to dominate that finds expression in gun ownership. Unfortunately, those are exactly the same two traits that you find in hotheads who react to perceived slights by blowing their tops. In a country where guns are heavily marketed to the people who are most likely to mishandle them, we really shouldn't be surprised that we have the mass shooting problem that we do.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Gun owners tend to be self reliant and independent. Liberal democrats tend to suffer from this sense of entitlement and insecurity. We see this everywhere.
"One of the people killed in the brutal slayings in San Bernardino this week was a Messianic Jew, Nicholas Thalasinos. You may not have heard about that because there is no media narrative served by pointing it out. His particular religious belief, that Jesus Christ is his savior, is of no consequence to the sorts of people who drive the mainstream media's dramatic storytelling.
Thursday's coverage of the terror in San Bernardino was rife with lunacy and idiocy, and in that regard CNN had an especially banner day. But perhaps no moment was more awful or galling than when CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman interviewed the widow of the murdered, "outspoken" Christian man.
Did he evangelize with this guy Farook?
What has he said [about Muslims in the past]?
Do you think he talked to Farook about that?
He made a point of talking to everyone he worked with at the health department about his beliefs about being born again.
Click here for the full interview clip.
Perhaps Tuchman is just a man seeking answers or "rationale", if you will, to give this terror attack perspective or "Legitimacy."
That Thalasinos may have professed Christian belief to the murderer is not a point of insignificance. Indeed, it is worth knowing just how little it takes to ignite the ticking time bombs being delivered into our midst by the mysterious process of "radicalization." But that is not what CNN did here. And it is not their agenda.
If you do a search for Messianic Jew or Nicholas Thalasinos in the news in the last day, you'll see it. This is the path to a "workplace violence" narrative, and one that fully opens the gun control floodgate that is slowly closing with ever new piece of jihadi evidence. It was a fight with a coworker. An "outspoken" coworker. An icky evangelical. Who doesn't hate those guys? He was a bigot. Anti-Muslim. Hateful. He was a hater. Hater! Die, hater! He was asking for it!
Narrative folks. The left has theirs. The media has it. And they are sticking to it, despite any and all evidence. It can't be terror. That doesn't work. It was workplace violence.
And he had it coming.."
Blaming easy access to guns for gun crimes caused by crazy people killing people is like blaming easy acccess to women in public without male escorts for the actions of a rapist.
Blaming the means of the crime for the crime is a very islamic and backward way of thinking.
The reason in islam they dress the women up like hefty bags is because they blame the female form for the lust that causes rape instead of the rapist.
Gun control nut jobs blame the temptation of the gun and the power ludt they perceive comming from it for the shootings and not the shooter.
Leftism and islamism is scarily simular. ....
“....Islam is a primitive culture in which traditional masculinity has been distorted by bizarre tribal practices and murderous cultism. In the place of normal males, we see blustering, brutal, near-hysterical adolescents motivated as much by fear as anything else. Fear of women, fear of the intellect, fear of disagreement — things no mature male would ever be afraid of. You take a few million of these emotional cripples and throw them at the feminized, beta-ized West, and... Well, it’ll be funny in the 30th century. But it’s not funny today.....”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/the_alpha_male_at_bay.html
Meanwhile liberals wage war on women by trying to find ways to prevent them from defending themselves.
Excellent observation.
...THIS is CNN...
The word missing from this article?
Islam
Be aware the author was once the Official Blogger of the Silky Pony presidential campaign, but was fired because she became an embarrassment even to him.
Just read the Koran—you idiots.
Gunpowder based weapons have been the genie out of the bottle for more than a thousand years now. It’s not going back into the genie’s bottle now or ever so move on and get over that narrative.
There needs to be a debate on another solution where the ONLY individuals involved are dedicated to ONLY engage in critical thinking, neutral to political ramifications, pure honesty based on science and facts, not emotion, and brave enough to move forward with the obviously distasteful probable solutions.
The victims were obeying the rules that the place be gun free and it worked.
It worked out much better for the murderous terrorists that had nobody to oppose them.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away - which is why they got to shoot all them poor folks and calmly walk out and drive away.
Gun Control Works!!!
Men whose business requires them to courier their own cash, or who sell liquor and cigarettes to the general public in their bodegas, or who work undercover for the police department, or who have families in general proximity to rough, Obama-entitled neighborhoods, are "insecure". They don't just think they are, and it isn't just that you ascribe insecurity to them for polemical effect, it's because they are. And so are you, and the police are just minutes away.
Twit. Psychoanalyzing conservatives to delegitimize our interests and agenda. Didn't we leave that behind in the 1950's? I mean, I know the KGB kept up a lively interest in abusive forensic psychiatry right up through the 80's, but do you really want to follow their lead, dear Amanda?
Thanks for the info. And btw, I think the official cyberspeak is "blogress".
I prefer the term ‘douchett’
Bump.
I was thinking it might perhaps be “blogerette”.
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