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As always, hysterical articles about gun laws and gun violence have erupted, right on schedule, in regard to the episode of pure evil in Las Vegas on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s always the fault of guns first, as if they have some unknown ability to animate themselves and just start shooting. I have yet to find any place on Earth that has robot guns in place. Even the Terminator had to go to a store to get his\/its hands on ballistic weapons, and walked away disappointed that he\/it couldn\u2019t get a bolt-action laser bullet-firing rifle. \u201cJust what you see on the shelf,\u201d said the shopkeeper. And let\u2019s remember that the\u00a0 Terminator used a vehicle to ram his\/its way into the police station, then proceeded to use a pump-action shotgun to blast away at everything in sight while the heroine hid under a desk. Oh, yeah — that all took place in California. The irony is blatant.<\/p>\n
Of course, politicians (especially DiFi) jumped right up out of the woodwork, brought their puppet Gabby Giffords front and center along with Shotgun Joe Biden, and wailed about \u2018Stop gun violence\u2019.<\/p>\n
As I recall, when Nichols and McVeigh set off a truck bomb in Oklahoma City, no one hollered \u2018ban medium-sized rental trucks!\u2019 or started a campaign to stop truck bombings. No one wailed, jumped up and down and pointed, and thumped a podium proposing banning rental trucks or legislation to take multipassenger transport planes out of skies and go back to driving horses and buggies or using a passenger trains only mass transportation system.<\/p>\n
Those were one-offs, right?\u00a0 No, they weren\u2019t. We know better, because we can find plenty of plane hijackings if we try. How about the PanAM Lockerbie bombing?<\/p>\n
Frankly, you couldn\u2019t get me on a passenger flight now, for a good reason. The last time I flew any commercial flight anywhere was the fall of 2000. The guy next to me was an obnoxious gasbag who decided my reserved seat was his and wouldn\u2019t give it up until I offered to get the flight attendant. The flight out was bad enough, but the return flight was worse. I used to like flying. You can\u2019t get me near a commercial flight now. I\u2019ll walk first. And it\u2019s gotten worse since the events of 9\/11\/2001, because people seem to have become even more obnoxious and bad-mannered. Maybe it\u2019s being in a captive environment that does it.<\/p>\n
I looked around for the volume of laws on the books that relate to gun control. At the Federal level, there are already nine in place<\/em>. The number at state level varies from state to state. Why is \u201cmore gun control laws, there aren\u2019t enough!\u201d<\/em> the first thing uttered? Why? Pure, unadulterated, intentional ignorance. Ask those morons how many laws are already in place. Corner one of them about it.<\/p>\n What happened on Sunday in Las Vegas has absolutely nothing to do with guns, any more than parking a rented truck loaded with a homemade bomb near a federal building has anything to do with rented trucks or flying a plane full of passengers and fully-fueled into a skyscraper has anything to do with airplanes. Nor does it have anything to do with the crowbars and other things used by a beast like Ted Bundy to brutalize and kill women over a period of some 20 years.<\/p>\n We have to face who and what we are. WE are a violent species. We are predators, first and foremost, not herd animals, whether the politicos like that or not. And believe me, they don\u2019t like it. They do not view any of us as individuals. I blame most of that on the media, which panders to the false narrative that we are, indeed, dumb herd animals. WE aren\u2019t dumb. THEY are.<\/p>\n Nor are we, as Americans, likely to submit obediently to being told to go live in \u201cspecial\u201d places and wonder what\u2019s going on while more and more of us are brought in by cattle car to join us. Read up on the revolt at Sobibor. Not everyone went quietly. Some of those rebellious souls used guns they had taken away from their Nazi guards. We\u2019re more likely to be those guys at Sobibor than the sheep that Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, and Pol Pot slaughtered by the millions.\u00a0 I have no idea how many people Saddam Hussein killed off but he can rightfully be added to that list, along with his two offspring.<\/p>\n You can pass all the idiotic legislation you want to but until politicians stop using puppets like Giffords and Brady as poster-children for their need to be control freaks, and take a hard look at how dysfunctional they themselves really are, nothing will stop the violence.<\/p>\n You cannot legislate it out of existence. You can heavily punish the offenders. You cannot legislate the Paddocks and Bundys and despotic dictators out of existence.<\/p>\n In the meantime, the screeching and scrambling to pass more laws, the ignorance about current legislation which is more than adequate, and the lackadaisical attitude that pervades the HERDS of people who just don\u2019t believe anyone could possibly want to hurt them (seriously, ask one of them) are the real problem.<\/p>\n We do NOT need more gun laws. There are plenty on the books. We do NOT need more legislation. We need more public awareness of what is already in place.<\/p>\n We do NOT need a news media environment that squawks and points about gun violence, pesters already-rattled victims for interviews like the carrion eaters they are, and gathers like groupies at a head-banger concert when these events take place. That needs to be stopped<\/em> right now.<\/em> The blood lust they display is appalling.<\/p>\n I blame the news media for what happened in Las Vegas \u2013 all of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We need to do whatever is necessary to get people to stop being careless slackers about their surroundings. Please tell me why some stupid young woman thinks it\u2019s okay to be out jogging after midnight, wearing headphones, when personal violent crime is rising in Chicago, and she is assaulted, beaten and raped. And then she wants the city to pass laws against that. The sheer stupidity about this that I see in people between 18 and 45 is astounding. And their rebuttal is \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t I be able to go jogging at midnight in a bad neighborhood? Why would anyone hurt me? I\u2019m so nice!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Whether you own weapons or don\u2019t, WE need to argue the opposite side of that coin that has political animals jumping right in front of TV cameras with their puppets, and make it clear that there is enough legislation in place already. It hasn\u2019t stopped anything. <\/em>The world is a harsh, violent place that wants to terminate your existence by any means.<\/p>\n If we are going stop this, we have to stop blaming inanimate objects for what WE do and take responsibility for it. \u00a0And blame the news media for everything \u2013 all of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"