Even before we knew the identity of the loser who shot
up Umpqua Community College in Oregon, learned the identity of his victims, or
the type of weapon he utilize to perpetrate his crime we had a volley of cluelessness
hurled by President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, candidate Hilary Clinton
and a raft of drooling morons in the liberal media.
The talking points are familiar enough; the National
Rifle Association has blood on its hands, we need “common sense” gun control
laws, the second amendment had nothing to do with individual freedoms it was
about militias, blah blah blah, yackity yackity.
Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Obama
practically sprinted to the microphone to once again politicize a mass shooting
and proclaim the need for “common sense” gun legislation that would close the so
called “gun show loophole”, with universal background checks and a band on
so-called ‘assault weapons.” And this is where the rush to the camera tripped
up the President; Oregon had already passed legislation to require background
checks on all gun purchases, so it did not and would not have prevented the shooting
at UCC.
Then the liberal pinwheels in the media started
weighing in and pontificating about the need for more gun control. Amanda
Marcotte, who regularly weigh in with the liberal take on things for Rolling
Stone Magazine quickly served up 4Pro-Gun Arguments We’re Tired of Hearing. While all four are about what you’d
expect from an uninformed moron, my favorite is number two which reads- “The
only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” in which
she laughingly goes on to proclaim “No mass shootings in the past 30 years have
been stopped by an armed civilian.” Which is laughable on its face; first she
mixes her metaphors, I would argue that the UCC shooter was “stopped by a good
guy with a gun.” In fact two of them! Armed officers put this loser down and
prevented greater loss of life.
As to the armed civilian part of her stupidity, it’s
pretty clear that in many cases, disaffected losers who are hell bent on trying
to inflict mass damage have been stopped in their tracks by armed civilians
before they can escalate to multiple killings. Perhaps that might take a bit more
brain capability than Ms. Marcotte can muster.
The better argument would be to look at these mass
killings as a whole. It seems more often than not that these killings take
place in locations like UCC that freely post what amounts to an equivalent of a
sign reading
Whack Jobs Welcome” when they choose to post “Gun Free Zone” signs; which is
notable in the case of Oregon which is a state that allows for concealed carry.
Imagine how different the outcome might have been.
Think about what prevents bad guys from busting in your
front door and taking your stuff…the greatest weapon is doubt; not knowing
exactly what might await them on the other side of the door. Ask folks like Ms.
Marcotte to post a sign outside their homes that simple states “No guns on
premise” and I bet you will get a whole different opinion on these gun free
zone.
Common
Sense Gun Control
I love when politicians and the media start thumping their
collective chests and proclaim the need for “common sense gun control”. What
exactly is that? Please name the law that we can pass that would have prevented
this loser from perpetrating this tragic loss of life? (Insert cricket sounds
here.) Still Waiting…okay, let me help you out; the answer is that with over
20,000 state and federal guns laws on the books we have not prevented these
mass killings so what would make you think that we could possibly concoct a law
to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?
The National Review’s Charles Cook raise this very
point when he twisted the entire Morning Joe panel on MSNBC in knots by asking
that same question. Check out the video-
Chicago
You got to wonder why is that Obama and his liberal
pals in the media are SO outraged about the UCC shooting that left 9 victims
dead and yet they haven’t really said a thing about the 15 murders over just
last weekend in the President’s adopted home town of Chicago and the record 60!
In the month of September. Could it have something to do with the fact that
while Chicago and the state of Illinois have some of the toughest gun laws in
the nation, those laws have done NOTHING to prevent a staggering amount of gun
crime?!
Simply put, so even politicians and the liberal media
can understand, gun laws will not stop a determined killer from perpetrating
his crime. Bad people don’t get background checks and gun law only impact good
people. The only thing that will put a dent in these kinds of crimes is to stop
talking about the losers who perpetrate them; one look at the social media
profiles of these assholes and you will more often than not see mentions of the
losers who proceeded them down this path of destruction. We have to stand up
and say you were a loser before this and you’ll go to your grave a loser and
not achieve the fame you seek. This will go a long way to eliminating the
copycat mentality.
The second step would be to take down these ridiculous “gun
free zone” signs! Put that level of doubt back into the minds of these losers
and raise the specter of a potential armed response. Let’s talk publicly and
loudly about training people to respond in the event of someone trying to start
a mass casualty event. Talk about a message that will have a REAL impact.