The "Gun Culture"? No... It's the CRIME CULTURE, stupid!

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[King Prout]

Leftists, the softheaded, and the bleeding-hearted in media, politics, and academe talk a lot about guns and crime. Seldom does a day pass without some smug, smarmy, avuncular or nannyish talking head spouting off on national television, expounding on the "obvious" causal link between availability of guns and violent crime, selling yet another installation of "reasonable" restrictions on the rights of law-abiding citizens, yet another iteration of the incremental erosion of the most fundamental of all of out natural rights.

They talk a lot, these media darlings. Buth they never really say anything, do they? One would think that blowing holes in their vaporous arguments would be as easy as pie, wouldn't you? A task so easily done that it would of course have BEEN done, completely, with no chance of evasion, some dozens of years ago. But, no, it hasn't. It hasn't, the lid to this particular coffin HAS NOT been nailed shut, because we of and on the Right have never had the guts to speak the principle truth that these fools so studiously ignore.

Well, I -for one- am fed up.

Here is the basic, ugly, unvarnished truth:

The crime rate in this country is not caused by guns. It is not caused by the real, traditional gun-culture which the anti-gunners like to call "the gun nuts". It is not even caused by this vague, amorphous, indescript thing they have trumped up as the "culture of violence".

The crime rate in this country is caused by THE CRIME CULTURE.

You know, that culture which espouses the principles of the irresponsible scofflaw, the rogue, the ruffian, the bad-boy, the barbarian, that behaving badly is "cool", that committing felonies for fun and profit is A-OK, and that the rest of us must always "tolerate" it in the name of "diversity". To put the crime rate in this country to decline, we must address this culture, and those who actively promulgate it, directly and harshly.

This truth is self-evident. To start from any lesser premise is to lose the debate.

That is something we can no longer afford to do.

[King Prout]

just irked.

[King Prout]

Mike - this might be worth pinging to your B/C list.

Joe&Travis - if you approve, ping away. If not? Hammer away without mercy.

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Amen!

[King Prout]

good LORD that was quick! :)

[mbynack]

Did you ever noticed that the newspapers will report a shooting as "Automatic weapons kills 15 year old". If the kid gets run over they don't say "88 Buick Kills 15 Year old" they say "Drunk Driver Kills Kid". If the deed is done with a gun, the gun is to blame. If it's done with anything else it's the fault of the criminal.

[Shooter 2.5]

Welcome to FR.

[King Prout]

noticed. hated. finally run out of patience for it.
enough is enough.

[King Prout]

thanks.
The pool is up for how long I'll last ;)

[ChefKeith]

Well said!!

A much cleaner version than I would have stated.

[KantianBurke]

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[Puppage]

expounding on the "obvious" causal link between availability of guns and violent crime

Two things.....

1) Have these liberals ever tried to PURCHASE a gun? Cause it ain't like buying milk.

2) Of all the violent crime......how much is propagated by PERMIT HOLDERS?

Close to ZERO, I'm willing to bet. I read recently (can't recall where) that out of 180 thousand+ permits to carry concealed issued last year FOUR were revoked.

[ChefKeith]

FYI

[Badray]

Have you ever noticed the description "gunman" when a gun is involved? You'll never see "batman", "knifeman", or "rockman" when some is beaten, stabbed, or bludgeoned with a rock, but "gunman" just rolls off their lips and out of their pens and keyboards so easily and automatically.

[King Prout]

thanks! I just ordered a copy.

[Shooter 2.5]

A couple of simple rules help me.

If they make you angry, they won. I try to keep my head when I post.

There isn't a problem when I wrote out a couple of paragraphs just to get it out of my system and then deleted the message.

When I'm wrong, I try to apologize.

The real enemy are the libs and the anti-gun people.

Saying what won't be done really doesn't impress anyone. Saying what a person has done or will do is better.

[King Prout]

well... Sean Penn, a convicted felon (assault and battery of a papparazzi) has both a CA carry permit and at least one handgun.
I suspect, for the Kultural Elite Leftists, it's a matter of "rights for me, not for thee"

[Joe Brower]

What you said. As someone much wise than I has previously said, "Liberals are people who kill babies while and baby killers". Short, sweet and to the point.

As for the "crime culture" you mention, again, spot-on. Look where we, as a society, currently worshup. It's beyond reproach how degenerate "gangstas" and other assorted scum are now pop icons, worshipped by the ignorant masses who, God help us, will someday be in charge.

God save the Republic. Please.

[mbynack]

You'll never see "batman", "knifeman", or "rockman" when some is beaten, stabbed, or bludgeoned with a rock, but "gunman" just rolls off their lips and out of their pens and keyboards so easily and automatically.

Can you imagine the feedback if someone wrote "Batman Kills Joker in Bar Fight"? I bet even Jason Blair would have had trouble with that one.

[King Prout]

I'll try to bear all that in mind.
Especially the bit about keeping my cool.

[King Prout]

rolling... just ROLLING!