Hey look… Ted said something logical

And this is one of those times. Ted’s basic point is that thanks to the more left-leaning politicians in our nation, even cops have trouble arming themselves. Ted speaks about an incident in New York where two unarmed officers (I must say, foolishly) pursued a heavily armed dickbrain who then proceeded to empty his clip into their bodies, killing them.

Now, I am going to take this opportunity to speak on the topic at large, rather than focusing on the Nuge’s ranting. The trouble here is the attitude on the traditional left towards guns and gun control. I recall after that little twat at Virginia Tech shot up his school, I said to myself “how long before some weenies start crying about mean old macho America and their guns?”. And like clockwork, I turned on the radio during my commute to hear a DJ on the local station KNDD caterwauling about that very subject. And to no surprise of mine, he wondered aloud when America would question its “love affair with guns”.

Blaming America’s violent shootings on guns is akin to blaming the Holocaust on ovens, but nobody has called for the banning of crematory kilns that I’m aware of. People are afraid to put blame where blame lies (and this applies to many more issues than this) and it’s as simple as that. The blame for the Virginia Tech shooting lies with a little punk bitch who was sexually rejected by even his own right hand, probably. Rather than taking the opportunity to damn the memory of such individuals as that asshole, or the fellator of horses who murdered Dimebag Darrell, or the two losers who shot up Columbine High School, the nation immediately blames the inanimate pieces of metal they happened to be carrying at the time. And we’re lucky if they blame guns because the even-more-lunatic fringe enjoys blaming such things as heavy metal music, video games, and dark clothes. Individuals such as those are the ones who strain our free-speech system to its limits.

Here’s another way of looking at it. If just one other person in the vicinity of these violent shootings were armed as well, the loss of life could have been stopped at one (innocent) death or even none. The minute the whackjobs start shooting, there ought to be someone who starts shooting back. So in fact, it’s not our nation’s “love of guns” which is to blame for the shootings that go on in America, but our aversion to guns! It’s quite similar to sex. High teen birth and STD rates can be blamed on lack of sex education because the sex is there but it’s being grossly misused. High murder rates can similarly be blamed on the fact that guns are there, but they’re being grossly misused. If sex were dealt with openly and frankly, the problems of teen pregnancy and venereal diseases would ameliorate, and if guns were treated as equally useful and hazardous tools, then perhaps law-abiding citizens would not be stigmatized for owning them, and be able to serve as a bulwark against the crazies who may get their hands on a weapon.

But it’s far easier to just blame the inanimate object. Pawning responsibility from oneself onto an inanimate object is convenient. Plus, the whiners in America have an excellent model in some European states. I’ve heard on numerous occasions a very disturbing counter-argument to the truism “If we outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns”. That argument states: “England has avoided this by so thoroughly disarming the population and making the penalty for possession so high that nobody except the army has guns.”

These individuals make this argument with such a straight face, it’s frightening. They’re so weak of character, so craven, so pusillanimous and afraid to fend for themselves that they’d allow a government to castrate their ability to self-defend in the faith that that government will keep them safe. Well, excuse me for being so bold, but I’ll risk being shot by a random moron on the street sooner than I’ll risk giving our already ethically questionable government the ability to disarm us at will. Unlike the anti-gun whackos, I see adults as adults; not overgrown babies. Well, maybe some people are.