To:\u00a0 The Mainstream Media, and the cops and prosecutors who are your sources
\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant
\nRe:\u00a0 World’s Smallest Violin<\/p>\n
Dear Cops, Prosecutors and their Media mouthpieces,<\/p>\n
Last week, a shooter at a WalMart in the Denver area killed three people.<\/p>\n
Colorado being a shall-issue state, and WalMart being an almost-stereotypical hangout for Real Americans [1], a number of people reacted admirably, courageously and appropriately, by drawing their legal firearms and getting ready to engage.<\/p>\n
And that just annoys all of you, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
But those who drew weapons during the shootings ultimately delayed the investigation as authorities pored over surveillance videotape trying to identify the assailant who killed three people, police said Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let me put this as delicately as it deserves to be put;\u00a0 f**k you, and your whining about being forced to\u00a0do your jobs\u00a0<\/em>because people had the unmitigated gall to defend themselves.\u00a0 And the media for carrying this whining as if it’s news.<\/p>\n
If someone hears shooting in the room they’re in, and their first thought is “I hope my actions don’t impede the police investigating why I am dead”, rather than defending your life, your family and your community (whether by fight or flight, and I’ll never judge either one), then they are mentally ill; if you think that\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>be the normal response, then you’re a lot worse.<\/p>\n
I used to wonder why the news media and officialdom wondered why people these days trust them less than used car dealers.\u00a0 Now, I curse their gall for wasting my time asking why they wonder.<\/p>\n
[1] Defined, in this case, as “people who take\u00a0all ten amendments\u00a0<\/em>of the Bill of Rights seriously, jointly and severally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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