And Again, It's Not The Guns

So once again we see a public place shot up with a large number of fatalities and injuries. Once again we have a media intent on playing the Gun Control card. They have already falsely stated that the shooter of the Navy Yard used an AR15. He did not. They have tried to connect this discussion by citing Newtown and Aurora, two evil incidents where deranged individuals killed innocents for what appears to be no reason at all. Politicians want you to believe that guns are the problem.

Guns are not the problem.

Under guidelines signed more than thirty years ago it has become almost impossible for even loving families to have mentally ill, violent and threatening members involuntarily detained. Many of the first victims of the violent mentally ill are the same family members who make excuses for them. Indeed that appears to be what happened in both the Gabby Gifford's shooting and in Newtown, where families were unwilling to admit their members were a danger to themselves and others. In both cases outsiders, teachers, peers, coworked knew that the individuals were escalating their behavior. In Aurora and in this case with the Navy Yard shooter, the individuals were either under treatment on their own recognizance or scheduled for treatment but still left out in the general population as in the case of the Aurora shooter.

Guns are not the problem.

We are discovering that the Navy Yard shooter had a violent history. He had anger problems where he self admittedly blacked out in Seattle, and a neighor in his Ft. Worth apartment who was terrified of him. Even his friends admitted he would start drinking at 9:30 in the morning, drink huge quanitites of liquor and play violent video games for days on end to the point where friends had to bring him food after two days straight of playing. These are not normal behaviors taken individually and as a cluster demonstrate someone who is seeking to quiet voices and self medicate. In short. the Navy Yard shooter was deranged and dangerous but under current law could not be denied employment or freedom because of these issues.

Guns are not the problem.

While I would agree that people with criminal intent or those who are seriously mentally impaired should not be given access to guns or other weapons, does anyone really think that someone under the pressure of delusions will let mere legalities stop them? I notice politicians wringing their hands in regards to this situation. I am curious if proximity is the issue because these same political creatures seem ready to label the Ft. Hood shooter as "workplace violence." I notice that these same political creatures ignore the slashing attack on several Houston students by an equally insane individual. The killing of innocents is always an evil act done by evil individuals. Using a gun does not make this more or less so.

Guns are not the problem.

So what is the common thread? A shooter in Tuscon, noticeably insane allowed to roam free until someone gets hurt. A shooter in Aurora, noticeably deranged, allowed to go about his day because it's just not politically correct to question odd behavior. A shooter in Newtown kills children after years of public and private schools accommodating what was probably escalating violence and manifestation in his actions. Now a former military man with a history of violence, mental illness and behavior oddities kills people. With the current laws in place the mentally ill are medicated and released. The public is not allowed the luxury of discrimination but must endure their behavior in public places as demonstrated by many confrontations encountered with the homeless and mentally ill. Nobody can do anything until someone gets hurt. And even then all politicians want to do is blame guns.

Guns are not the problem.

Best Column Ever (An Excerpt and Link)

Just a bit of one of the best columns I have read in a long time. This puts in a nutshell everything that many of us have been saying for a long time. I'm just putting an excerpt, but use the link below and read the entire column. And please, share it.


"...One of the strangest things about the modern progression in liberal thought is its increasing comfort with elitism and high style. Over the last 30 years, the enjoyment of refined tastes, both material and psychological, has become a hallmark of liberalism — hand in glove with the art of professional altruism, so necessary to the guilt-free enjoyment of the good life. Take most any contemporary issue, and the theme of elite progressivism predominates.

Higher education? A visitor from Mars would note that the current system of universities and colleges is designed to promote the interests of an elite at the expense of the middle and lower-middle classes. UCLA, Yale, and even CSU Stanislaus run on premises far more reactionary and class-based than does Wal-Mart. The teaching loads and course responsibilities of tenured full professors have declined over the last half-century, while the percentage of units taught by graduate students and part-time faculty, with few benefits and low pay, has soared.

The number of administrators has likewise climbed — even as student indebtedness has skyrocketed, along with the unemployment rate among recent college graduates. A typical scenario embodying these bizarre trends would run something like the following: The UC assistant provost for diversity affairs, or the full professor of Italian literature, focusing on gender and the self, depend on lots of graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences and humanities piling up debt without any guarantee of jobs, while part-time faculty subsidize the formers’ lifestyles by teaching, without grading assistants, the large introductory undergraduate courses, getting paid a third to half what those with tenure receive.

The conference and the academic book, with little if any readership, promote the career interest and income of the trendy administrator and the full professor, and are subsidized by either the taxpayers or the students or both. All of the above assumes that a nine-month teaching schedule, with tenure, grants, sabbaticals, and release time, are above reproach and justify yearly tuition hikes exceeding the rate of inflation. The beneficiaries of the system win exemption from criticism through loud support of the current progressive agenda, as if they were officers with swagger sticks in the culture wars who must have their own perks if they are to properly lead the less-well-informed troops out of the trenches."

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/08/liberal_apartheid_119115.html#ixzz2YSjPuxpz
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A Dark Day

Today is a dark day. It is a day when evil walked on two legs into a kindergarten classroom. It is a day when a madman mowed down a classroom of kindergartners. I can’t help but think that five year olds were clinging to their teacher, the shooter’s mother, as she died. I can’t help but think they were crying and scared wanting their mommies. What kind of animal does this?

But then again, while you will hear a loud drumbeat from the White House and the anti-gun lobby, what kind of delusional person shoots a movie full of viewers enjoying a new film or a playground of school kids? Let’s look at this further-what kind of person drowns her six young children or cuts the arms off her baby to make her an angel? These people share the same problem-they are what used to be called insane. Now that has been sanitized into an “illness” for which they cannot be held responsible. The woman who drowned her six young kids pled not guilty by reason of insanity when in reality it should be GUILTY by reason of insanity. Likewise the woman who killed her baby was committed for a short time and was in the past few months discovered to be working in a Walmart. The attitude of the medical community and the liberals is that you make these people show up to get meds and then send them on their way. No monitoring, no oversight, no protection for those they come in contact with. And if they stop taking their meds, what then?

But how does it get to this point. Let me give you an illustration. A colleague of mine has been victimized to the point of having nightmares by a six foot four male student who throws furniture and has as recently as last summer was in a mental health hospital. For six months she endured verbal threats and had to intervene as this student threatened others. One day he told her “I could hit you in the head with this hammer and you can’t stop me.” Indeed, until violence occurs there’s nothing a general ed classroom teacher can do. And there’s nothing we can do to protect other students either. Luckily this student was finally removed to a unit designed for emotionally disturbed students. He lasted two weeks in a facility designed for his needs and was kicked out. Now he’s in another school district where I have no doubt he’s cycling through the same delusional and menacing behavior. Everyone’s scared of the ADA and nobody wants to make the call that this individual is dangerous. I have little doubt that down the road, he’s another tragedy waiting to happen.

The problem is not with guns. Richard Speck murdered several nurses with a knife. Jim Jones murdered men, women and children with poison. The Weather Underground murdered people with bombs. Guns have been with us a long time. But what has not been with us is the prevailing societal drumbeat that we must not judge those who act out in dangerous and delusional ways. The ADA and various liberal feelgood policies have created a situation of political correctness where seeking to commit an insane individual to a facility where they cannot harm others is “unkind” or “meanspirited.” Indeed, many of the recent events of mass violence reveal a known history of outrageously insane behavior that was deliberately overlooked for the sake of avoiding being “judgmental.”

What will happen now is yet another outcry for gun control when what needs to happen is that we must, for the sake of our nation, take back the right to keep the criminally insane from victimizing the innocent. A friend of mine who just left a position as an aide at a facility designed for the retarded told me that the majority of the people there are mentally ill, not retarded. They are allowed to act out in ridiculous and provocative ways. She left because a man tried to gouge out her eye. Nothing was done. Nothing will ever be done as long as the current ADA laws are in effect. We have actually turned over the sylum to the inmates. The uptick in homelessness, the rise in domestic crime and the increase in drug abuse are all biproducts of a society that refuses to accept that some people are simply too sick and insane to be left on their own. I am not talking about the depressed, or the bipolar or even the nasty-but of those who are so obviously insane that they pose a threat to others. I shudder and can barely hold back tears when I think of that roomful of kindergartners murdered for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings. We must take back the safety of our society. We have to realize that by allowing such people to act out with impunity, we are not helping them, we are allowing them to overtake us.