Racism made him do it!

Just as I thought the chorus of blaming anyone and anything but the shooter for the Connecticut school shooting was beginning to wind down, along comes Michael Moore with one of the most idiotic claims yet.

He sees racism as being at the root of the problem. No, seriously. According to Moore’s “logic,” the shooting was caused by the fact that Americans have too many guns, and the reason they have so many guns is because the guns are mainly in the hands of white people who fear and are itching to shoot black people:

…Why on earth would we need 300 million guns in our homes? I get why the Russians might be a little spooked (over 20 million of them died in World War II). But what’s our excuse? Worried that the Indians from the casino may go on the warpath? Concerned that the Canadians seem to be amassing too many Tim Horton’s donut shops on both sides of the border?

No. It’s because too many white people are afraid of black people. Period. The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what’s the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street – or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

I think it would be worth it to a) do our best to eradicate poverty and re-create the middle class we used to have, and b) stop promoting the image of the black man as the boogeyman out to hurt you. Calm down, white people, and put away your guns.

Not that logic would matter to such a nutjob as Michael Moore, but if we were to assume he is right about whites wanting to shoot black people, then we would expect to see this reflected in shooting statistics. What the statistics show is precisely the opposite. According to the official data showing the races of all shooters and their victims, white against black shooting incidents rank at the very bottom. Whites overwhelming kill and are killed by whites, and blacks by blacks:

• 86% of white victims were killed by whites
• 94% of black victims were killed by blacks

Of course, the race-obsessed Moore probably would say that white racism drives white people to kill white people and black people to kill black people.

He calls the above (and other communitarian commie blather) “food for thought as we head home for the holidays” and advises his readers thusly:

Don’t forget to say hi to your conservative brother-in-law for me. Even he will tell you that, if you can’t nail a deer in three shots – and claim you need a clip of 30 rounds – you’re not a hunter my friend, and you have no business owning a gun.

He will? I have plenty of conservative friends, and I never heard a single one of them talk that way. I know plenty of gun owners. Some are hunters, some not. But none of them think the Second Amendment is about hunting. Gun ownership is not about “nailing a deer in three shots,” nor is the right to keep and bear arms. Hunting is only one of the uses of firearms, and is secondary in importance to self defense.

But to Moore’s imaginary “conservative,” it’s all about hunting. The logic of the above is simple:

If you’re not a hunter, you have no business owning a gun.

Any hunter who supports gun control by buying into the pretense that the left wants to create a special exception for hunters is a despicable fool, and an enemy of the Second Amendment.