AAARGH!
Why does it seem like every conservative is so fired up about this ‘angry radio hosts did it’ crap instead of facing the issue that we should be addressing: this psycho rampaged unchecked until his gun ran dry. This could not be a better case against gun control, and for legal carry. This could not be more clearly a situation where conservative voices needed to cry out for the legal right to carry nationally.
Instead, the national corps of Republican standard bearers all wring their hands and address the stupid liberal distraction! Abject, obvious failure of their preferred policy, and we get suckered into talking about how it’s Rush’s fault? WTF?!?! Profess our sadness and respond to the left’s accusations, and as a soft rejoinder, agree that ‘if only we hadn’t let all the nut jobs out on the street back in Reagan’s day...’ And now, Mark Levin is being just as stupid. The sound bite that resonates in the ear of the public isn’t that Chrissy is a liar—it’s Levin saying “I didn’t do it.” And even OJ said that, dumb@$$.
Thus we get slapped in the fanny by the swinging door of statists and leftists. Maybe Levin wins. Maybe it comes to the point where it’s obvious to the leftists. So what’s their reaction? “The population won’t accept gun control or media restrictions for shutting down these crazy conservatives? Well, time to get more funding for the mental wards we’ll be tossing them into, and laws to make it easier to start committing them!” And Michael Barone and the rest of the statists’ Amen corner start in on civil commitment as a solution to the problem.
NO, this situation makes it clear, puts it all in high relief, that the problem isn’t that we have crazies walking around with guns. The problem is that we don’t allow normal people to walk around with guns where they damn well please to protect themselves from crazies with guns. The real, malum in se, crimes aren’t committed by just walking around with machines. They’re committed by people like this loony harming others. Yet we have allowed the left to stigmatize and even criminalize walking on the street with a legal piece of equipment. We have assented to malum prohibitum in the face of the clear language of the Constitution saying otherwise. And even the latest broadening of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the right to bear arms doesn’t really do justice to the plain language of the law: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Imagine how far, in any city in the country, an adult walking with a shotgun would get before a cop pulled over to have a talk because concerned citizens called in about a “dangerous gun wielding person.” Ditto a holstered sidearm. How different that is from just half a century ago, when the very idea of a concealed weapon permit hadn’t taken hold outside of socialist urban strongholds. Nowadays, you shoot a deer anywhere in earshot of a house, and you might as well hold your wrists out for the handcuffs.
One armed citizen might have stopped this jerk from firing his gun empty. Unfortunately, Democrats aren’t usually armed because “guns are evil.” And these days, a lot of people who might otherwise be armed, even with a small derringer, are nervous about it just because they might break some prissy Congressman’s or State Representative’s exception to the Constitution. “Oh, surely we don’t want guns in bars. Oh, surely we don’t want guns in post offices...or near schools...or near child care centers...or...or...or...”
I’m just glad there are some people out there who remember what the point of the Second Amendment is. Like Dead Corpse, who brought me around on this. Or Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, who knows from personal experience what can happen to citizens who assent to following these evil laws:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrIsuO5PLc
Ping!