Posted on 04/21/2007 6:22:08 AM PDT by GMMAC
Blame the killer
By Michael Coren
Toronto Sun
Saturday, April 21, 2007
One question that should be asked following the massacre of the innocents in Virginia is where on earth did the media find so many social workers, child psychologists and pop philosophers and how were they able to utter such complete rubbish for so long?
For the most part they are mere puppets of fashion, tossing around cliches and soppy explanations when the answers are really very simple. It's not about bullying and certainly not about gun control.
This terrible case is about an insane, evil person committing an insane, evil act. Yet evil in particular is something in which we do not believe in the great relativist days of the 21 century when blame and responsibility are treated as swear words. So instead we obsess not about dealing with bad people who murder but with the guns they manage to obtain.
Gun control is actually one of the great digressions of modern times. Most shootings, and most pointless crime, are a result of the decaying social fabric of North America and our headlong rush into ethical mud. Any solution requires more than merely passing a law and then glowing in our own sense of righteousness.
Guns are extraordinarily common in rural communities, where the crime rates are lower than in cities. Farm kids shoot from an early age and are in the company of firearms as small children. Yet there are very few violent rampages and far more social order.
The activists campaigning for even more draconian gun control are invariably the same type of people who demand a lower age of sexual consent, more children's rights, increased funding of daycare rather than support for families, the abolition of corporal punishment and a wholesale dismantling of traditional society.
It is an almost infallible rule that the more liberal a person on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control. It is not that such people are malicious, simply that they are wrong. Dangerously wrong. Ignore the disease, misinterpret the diagnoses and then prescribe the wrong medicine.
The problems are not bullets but single-parent families and the absence of male authority figures. Not pistols but parents never seeing their kids because both are working. Not rifles but teachers unable to chastise children.
Our malaise is an obsession with self-esteem when kids actually need and want boundaries and borders. If we control anything it ought to be the endless discussions about young people's feelings and our encouraging them to act out their slightest whim.
If we limit anything it ought to be the constant attacks on family, chastity, faith and duty and the television stations that deaden the mind and the sensibilities with graphic violence, grotesque pornography and vacuous pop videos. After which hosting long discussions asking why kids go wrong.
The mantra of the modern youth. I want, I know, I am, I'm cool, I'm everything. You're nothing, you don't understand, you suck. Feel my pain or I'll destroy you.
Most of these attacks in schools and colleges have nothing to do with the United States, the race of the murderers or the type of guns used. They are about the killing of morality and the destruction of standards and unless we act now we're going to see far more of the consequences. Wake up and smell the cordite.
Great article. Just sent him a thank-you email.
Wish there were more clear thinkers like this guy.
This should be the slogan of Sarah Brady's fellow travelers. This writer nails the cause, effect, and consequences with laser-like precision.
—great sense from the North—
That, I think, says it all.
Guns are extraordinarily common in rural communities, where the crime rates are lower than in cities. Farm kids shoot from an early age and are in the company of firearms as small children. Yet there are very few violent rampages and far more social order.
This is true in the rural area where I live - in California. During hunting season rifle racks can be seen in pick ups, teenagers still walk down a country lane with .22 rifles for plinking and our crime rate is extremely low.
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