tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6925339507047294824..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Charles Krauthammer on Aaron AlexisStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32563324401295149102013-09-21T07:37:32.900-07:002013-09-21T07:37:32.900-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-74268356848827744492013-09-21T07:37:22.075-07:002013-09-21T07:37:22.075-07:00Lefty big media types don't care that the syst...Lefty big media types don't care that the system failed a PERSON. Heavens, no. People are collateral damage in the war against stupid conservative white Christian people (read: the scary people) having guns. It's the guns, stupid. The mainstream talking heads went right for the guns. To be an aspiring media bigshot and say otherwise might make you ideologically suspicious. And they say conservatives are "reactionary" and "paranoid"???<br /><br />The media's initial hysterical response to the horrifying events was itself horrifying behavior for such a vaunted, elite professional class. The pattern? Make the facts bend to the larger, necessary narrative. It wasn't a shotgun, it was an AR-15! It wasn't a shotgun, it was an AK-47! It was semi-automatic, wasn't it? Or fully automatic? No? Well, it should've been! Those are, after all, the scary weapons. Which testifies to the ignorance. If given the choice, I would gladly take a rifle round over all the lead coming out of a shotgun shell. That's messy. I can only imagine the carnage at the Navy Yard.<br /><br />The Navy Yard narrative didn't fit their version of reality. Guns are bad. Guns kill people. Guns empower stupid people. The fact that this was a black man, suffering from psychosis, who passed a federal background check, who was in a de facto gun-free zone, in the nation's capital, is just not the way it's supposed to go.<br /><br />Ultimately, Lefties aren't interested in the Second Amendment, it's history and what it's really about: empowering the citizen against federal tyranny (which includes ideological tyranny). For that matter, they aren't interested in the Constitution because it's a document that specifically limits what the government can do. That's a problem, because there's nothing that the government shouldn't be able to do, because there's so much it should do to ensure equality through policies that apply to everyone else but them (read: the ObamaCare exemption for Congressional staff). Such things seem innocuous until, as Margaret Thatcher said, they run out of other people's money. Then there is pain. Again, collateral damage. After all, the government knows what's best for you...<br /><br />It's not about guns, it's an attitude about people. It's an elitist, academic, snobby view of average American people. It's that no citizen should be allowed to have a gun. Guns empower scary people, and in the Leftist mind all people are scary because all people (except them and those who agree with them) are racist, sexist, homophobic, intolerant, religious, militarist, mean, nasty, and everything else.<br /><br />The Alexis incident is a tragedy, and a breakdown in civil, medical and military controls traditionally in place to protect society. Dianne Feinstein's post-incident statement is the same one-size-fits-all reactionary tripe that insults all law-abiding Americans and their Constitutionally-protected rights. They want psychotics to be able to roam the streets free from the threat of forced institutionalization, but want everyone else to give up their right to bear arms so these same psychotics can't get their hands on them. That is itself looney thinking, and something Krauthammer has been railing against since Connecticut. The response? Crickets. That's not the compassion they congratulate themselves for, that's contempt for the very people they claim to serve. The rest of us are viewed by the ruling class as being the cattle that must give up our rights so we're being nice to the marginal, criminal, fanatical, deranged parts of our society who refuse (or do not have the capability) to conform to our laws, customs and social conventions. <br /><br />The government isn't building systems, laws and policies to help Americans -- "We, the People" -- live free lives. Instead, they're building a leviathan to control "They, the little people." Well, this Lilliputian says "Enough!"<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com