Pique And Choose

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Let’s talk numbers.  Exact numbers change constantly so we’ll use round numbers.  We’re talking Big Picture here.

There are 300 million people in the country.  There are 30,000 gun deaths per year: 19,000 suicides, 10,000 murders, 500 “accidental discharges” and the rest are undetermined.   Round numbers.

2/3 of gun suicides are White men middle-aged or older who already own their firearms.  More than half of the 10,000 murders are committed by young Black men, mostly killing other young Black men.  The vast majority of them were committed with pistols and the killers did not purchase their firearms legally.

Liberals don’t care about Old White Men committing suicide (given how much they blame us for everything wrong with society, that might be considered a feature of gun violence, not a bug).  They don’t really care about Young Black Men shooting each other in Chicago ghettos because Liberals don’t live in ghettos so it doesn’t threaten them.

The scary thing for Liberals is the 20-something White male with mental health “issues” who comes on campus with a gun, or to the shopping mall, or the movie theatre.  Suicide is personal to the victim, no threat to me; violence in the ghetto might as well be in Africa – out of sight, out of mind; but random violence where I live is intolerable.  So Liberals propose to ban all guns everywhere to get at the one or two crazies who cause the problem they’re really concerned about.   Same theory as grade school: one kid farted but wouldn’t own up to it so the entire class lost our recess privileges.  Liberals never grow up, I guess.

Of course, it never occurs to Liberals that the threat is not crazy people with guns, but crazy people.  Why not lock up the loons and leave me alone?

Or, if we’re going to toss out Constitutional amendments, why not the First Amendment?  Maybe potential mass shooters are inspired by news accounts of actual mass shooters and aspire to similar fame? The electromagnetic spectrum is public domain, legitimately under the control of the federal government.  Paper and ink move in interstate commerce.  Make a new law: nobody can broadcast a report of a mass shooting, not on radio, television, cell phone, newspaper or the internet. When the novelty and fame disappear, copycats will disappear and Liberals will be safe.

Makes as much sense as their idea.

Joe Doakes

It does indeed.