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NGSD: National Gun Silliness Disease

Posted on January 10, 2013 by George Ure

WFT is the US Media thinking – if at all?  Huge headlines about this morning about how vice president Biden is meeting with faith leaders to discuss gun control.

Problem is this, as I see it:  Faith leaders aren’t the problem.  If Biden wants to get to the heart of the matter, he needs to be talking to the booze industry, big pharma, gang leaders, and stick-up artists (other than the ones in Washington!) because that’s the damn user group. 

This is bad theater.  It’d be like Microsoft going out and interviewing seagulls and reindeers on Windows 8 features….Hello?  (OK, maybe they did, but still…)They’re not the users!  The problem gun users are pillers, boozers, and losers, for crimminee’s sakes…not church-going, think inside the lines of civilized society, kinds of people.

Fearless Leader is threatening to use Executive Orders…which goes on to a new level of absurdity.  Fact: EO’s are only to implement existing laws.

So, would be beyond the realm of possibility that FL/BO could use contorted logic to issue an EO? No, not at all. 

Might go something like this:

• Congress authorizes funding for national parks
• Thus, to operate national parks, we need to round up guns

Huh?  Won’t be sure how that sleight of hand will be pulled off but let’s see what materializes…

My first point this morning is very, very simple:  There is a design pattern to the mass shootings that bears some thought.

Just as in the case of the 9/11 ‘terrorism’ these mass shootings have had multiple precursor events.  Remember we led into 9/11 with an earlier (unsuccessful) attack on the Twin Towers?

So here we have it again:  Multiple precursor events (Aurora) and then a “Big One” which is used to turn the public tide.

To make the point more clear – that there have been precursor events and warnings – here’s a dandy doctor interview on YouTube from 2007 (!) which discusses the role of bad medicine in these outbursts.  That’s like the anti-terrorism people who sounded the alarm early, IMHO.

Maybe this is how the course of history normally works, but think “design patterns” and consider how precursor events lead to major shifts in public policy.

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If the outrage were over people dying unjustly, you might want to go read the latest death stats from CDC. (See Table 9 here) Three times more people die of suicide than firearms:

No outrage about suicide – yet for ‘regular people’ (the kind who vote) the odds are way north of 1:3 that they’ll be touched by suicide.  What about accidental poisonings?  Accidents – in the home? No upwelling of emotions there… 

So no, doesn’t seem so much about wrongful deaths as it smells of playing emotions and that, frankly, makes me wonder about agendas and what’s going on in background that we’re not supposed to see while distracted?

About That Imported Anchor, Redux

Reader WB has been watching things and sends this:

“Ben Swann, a local Fox anchor for WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, offered up a fascinating fact-check of some of the stats that the British CNN host has been using.  

“In the UK, there are 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people…the U.S. has a violent crime rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents.”

Damn it, WB, this is an agenda…don’t muddy up the water with facts.  Seriously good data from Ben Swann, though…Who, I would note, was NOT born in the UK but more than makes up for it by  winning both an Edward R. Murrow Award and two Lone Star Emmy Awards.  Gee, maybe he should work on a Brit accent, huh?

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One last thought on this whole gun thing about the use of the term “infringed” in the second amendment.  Perfect example of linguistic change over time.

If you Google “define infringed” you get:

My sense is that when written, definition #2 was the most widespread but with a lot of twisting and drifting, definition #1 is what anti-gunners hang their hats on…then they go off and make up new laws.  But the phrase does refer to the Second Amendment, not something newly contrived – definition #2 applies -  honest!

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Another interesting stat if you come up with it:  Of all the murders that took place, how many were by non-citizens?  We’ve got about 15-million of them in the country thanks to the leaky border policy…. bet more than 1 in 21 are non-citizens…but that’s just a wild wager.  Again, can’t have too much real thinking on this stuff and no, no answering voicemails, calls, or emails on this.

We’ll wait to see if reasonableness prevails.