Neanderpundit

is shooting off his mouth again about guns, a subject about which he is as devoid of actual knowledge as fish are of double zero bifurcation.

The constant and ongoing issue with the first and second amendments is that everyone assumes “freedom” means “I can do whatever I want”. As I have explained before, ‘Freedom” does not mean you can do what you want; it means that your worst enemy can do the thing you hate most, directly in front of you, and you can’t do a thing to stop him.

You cannot, however, legislate the consequences out of actions. If someone were to disparage my family or my child within my earshot, they would have to accept the consequences of their freedom to speak. I would probably have to go to court, and hire a lawyer, and maybe I’d even do some time for assault; but that person would have learned a valuable lesson about what is appropriate to say and to whom. Because I would not stop teaching until the lesson was learned- though personal experience has shown me that the lesson is learned quickly.

This is how it’s supposed to be done. In 82, Bob McKeown, that leftist hustler from “The Fifth Estate” was “Exposing” the bad filming on many popular nature shows- he had done a hit piece on how Disney had massaged things for the camera, including pushing lemmings off a cliff for one of their specials. McKeown approached Marlin Perkins- on the record- with a question as to whether Perkins had ever done anything of the sort.

Perkins, a preeminent Zoologist and herpetologist who had already had a long career at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the St Lous Zoo prior to his term at Wild Kingdom, did what every man does when a sniveling rat turd questions his integrity. He asked for the cameras to be turned off, and punched McKeown right in the face. Perkins was 76 or 78 at the time, if memory serves, but he still did some good punching.

McKeown is still around these days, and still shooting off his mouth- but only because the last man with the balls to demonstrate to him the consequences of his actions is dead and gone.

Footnote: The Original “Wild Kingdom” was all about conservation and proper management of resources, just like NatGeo was years ago. Now both still have TV shows, but they’re about envirowhacko bullshit, and they ought all to be shot in the face. It makes me sick to watch, I swear to God.

A single armed individual would have made the body count smaller.

Not much help to anyone- except to the extra survivors- but that’s all you can do.

Radio stations yesterday were making great hay about the guy wearing body armor- as if that made him unstoppable. Body armor is designed to prevent your death, it does not stop you from being harmed. A 44 magnum has, IIRC about 1000 lb-feet of energy at short distance, or about 1400 joules. It takes about 400 joules to break a leg bone, one of the toughest bones in your body. Plate armor prevents the projectile from penetrating, but it does not sheild the wearer from the impact; I can’t speak personally to the new lightweight Kevlar stuff but the old plate stuff? You get hit with a 38 special, and you’re on your knees gasping for air. So armor or no, a bullet still puts the idiot out of commission, at least long enough to disarm him. Imagine the last four heavyweight prizefighters hitting you in the chest at once.

Anyway it’s all speculation. If someone has made up their mind to do a stupid thing, all the laws and safeguards on earth won’t stop him. More laws won’t, making something more illegal won’t. Another talking head point was the high capacity magazine. If Jerry Miculek can get to the point where he can shoot 12 rounds through a revolver in under 3 seconds, others might do it too, no high cap magazine is required to obtain a high rate of fire.

Pray for the victims. Pray that we can get into this idiots head and try to figure out what caused him to change from a harmless geek to a sociopathic loon.

of prii, that are not cockmonkeys.

You, mr black Prius, are not one of them. You obviously enjoy being a dick, because you putted around the exit ramp at 25, an exit ramp I have taken in my Explorer, as top heavy as it is, at 70. Once I had room to get around you, you were able to find your accelerator. Please continue to act in this manner, because eventually some sleep deprived trucker will turn your ass into prius butter.