An epiphany.
I think it is safe to say, if you decide to go apeshit and shoot up a white hen, or a school, or a post office, your cheese has definitely slid off your cracker. Sane people simply do not arrive at a point where firearms are a solution to any problem except “I don’t have enough firearms”
Not much is being said about the mental health aspect of the situation by anyone in the MSM, but they are focusing on guns plenty enough.
So: What do you do if your particular “issue” is the one that is causing the problem? You try to pass of the blame to someone else.
Since “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” it has been bad form to “Mistreat” people with mental issues. “They’re just differently sane” or “They march to a different drummer”
if it became the norm to look at people in the light of who might need a check up from the neck up, a powerful lot of things would probably change. Your brain has to be wired wrong to think that violence perpetrated on the innocent is a solution to anything; your brain has to be wired wrong to think that doing something stupid- like creating victim-rich environments- should be doubled-down on, is a good idea. Savage has already pointed out that liberalism is a mental disorder. If we started looking at people with mental disorders and treating or confining them, it wouldn’t be long before we got to Liberals, and frankly, there aren’t enough institutions in the world.
OK, maybe France.
Still: This seems to all click into place for me. Anyone else? Blame the guy with a gun because the nutcase is kida like me and they might look at me next.
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If you agree that I am sane, I will agree that you are sane. Then we have a pact to not inspect each others’ luggage. ;)
Sanity is not something you get to decide yourself. If it was, Nancy pelosi could claim sanity.
So many people in this country are being treated with anti-depressants, how in the world would one decide which ones were more apt to go root-a-toot in a school, theatre, or mall?
What makes it worse was that the Newtown nutbag was already in a database of people who were to be denied a firearms permit because of the psychotropic drugs they were on. Yet said nutbag managed to find a way to grab multiple firearms anyway.
To me the problem really centers around the fact that at no point during the massacre was anyone with a weapon able to challenge the punk. Gun-free zones are a flat failure, an open invitation to come on in and murder sometime, and until that story gets told loud and clear — and until something is done about them — these incidents are going to keep happening.
Something that just occurred to me: I can’t think of a single analogous incident perpatrated by a woman.
That it, BAN MEN!!!
Actually the girls have game too. Jennifer San Marco, Priscilla Joyce Ford, Khoua Her, Elzbieta Plackowska, all have done some pretty heinous things. Ford in particular is a whackjob of the first order. Never heard too much about her. Wanna know why? She used a car.
Sadly, Nathan, there is Amy bishop. And Aileen Wuornos, to name another kind of ill person who had no business being among the population.
There’s some evidence that Bishop had signs of mental illness earlier — she had shot and killed her brother as a teenager. The incident was passed off as an accident but it does appear now the act was intentional and deliberate.
The Newtown shooter had easy access to firearms, apparently because his mother was not careful.
The Webster shooter was a convicted felon and no one yet knows how he accumulated the arsenal he died with; authorities think he stole them.
Owners of firearms need to care for these weapons sufficiently, including reasonable precautions to keep what they own out of the reach of people that shouldn’t have them. Emphasis on reasonable AND precautions.
The crop of “solutions” that have been presented are not useful to the situation at hand and only serve to punish regular people who have done nothing wrong and never will.
And yeah, we need to do better on the mental illness front. Got no easy answers there, I’m afraid. More access to care and not stigmatizing people who are mentally ill might be some good first starts.
Jenny
“More access to care and not stigmatizing people who are mentally ill might be some good first starts. ”
This. because a powerful lot of mental illness is chemical in nature, and can be easily treated with a lot of effectiveness.
I had forgotten about Amy Bishop.
The others I don’t know if I knew about or not. Probably not. I wonder if the media makes sure we remember the evil males more than the evil females?
Quite likely
The Newtown shooters Mom paid for her failure to secure her weapons with her life. I guess we will never know if she owned a safe and the damaged young man found the key or combination without her knowing or she just stuck them in a closet. I have a friend whose wife had some mental issues, he gets me to lock up his collection for a couple of months while he gets her help and finds a great honking safe instead of the cabinet he was using. He tells me he has instructions in his will on how to dispose of his collection so she won’t ever have access. I understand she is on board with the plan herself.
I’m surprised you forgot Laurie Dann, who shot up a kindergarten or day care in Winnetka or Waukegan, who was also bonkers, and who sent Illinois down its gun ban way.
When they want to ban guns, agree and amplify. Not just as a rhetorical tactic, either. Mean it. Reagan scared the Soviets not because he talked about facing them down, but because they knew he was serious and meant it.
Say, “I guess we lose our guns. But let’s see what set these killers on their path in the first place. Violent video games? Ban and confiscate them. Sure, millions play them without shooting a school, but millions had guns and didn’t shoot up a school, and you took away the 99.9% don’t do it defense. And violent movies? How many people glorify Tony Montana from Scarface and went into gang life emulating him? Let’s register directors with the government and have the option of a government censor edit the movie. Same for violent music like rap that glorifies thug life. How many gang bangers use that as their background music for their hoodlum lives as they carry on with felonious delight? How many beat their wives after a day of listening to denigrating rap calling them b**ches and hoes throughout? (I can hear the crickets in the recording studios of Death Row Records right now…) And violent TV shows? Companies are paying CBS $3M per minute during the Super Bowl to influence people’s buying habits for ONE MINUTE. Don’t tell me TV doesn’t influence people’s decisions, and not only buying, how they act, too”
It’s easy to ban someone else’s important stuff if you have no interest in it. But if it looks like you’ll lose your important stuff too, maybe we can get along where we can all keep our important stuff. That’s the true meaning of tolerance.
Don’t forget Karla Homolka up in Canada, not a mass murderer but a serial killer.
And a real wack job.
Yep.
I’m sane. It those idjits on the left taking my guns I don’t trust with a gun. Nutty bunch of fruit loops if ever I did see some.
This is a very slippery slope we are on right now.
Are we tested to prove we are sane and smart enough to vote? Of course not! If we were, the democratic voting base would be wiped out! If we were, and you were considered sane and smart enough to vote, then that also proves you are sane and smart enough to be fully employed, assume personal responsibility for your actions, own firearms, drink, the list just goes on and on.