I have not commented on the Colorado Batman movie shooting because I don’t want to seem like a broken record. Every time a psycho acts out, activists and moralists of all stripes read in their favorite meme, and attribute the shooting to whatever they most hate. First, the Tea Party was blamed by irresponsible media lefties. When that failed, they spun on their heels and (assisted by “Republican” Mayor Bloomberg) blamed guns, and the culture of violence. Not to be outdone in nitwittery, crackpot social conservatives blamed a lack of prayer in the public schools (and of course, homosexuality).
To all of these arguments, a great big sigh.
This is not in any way to diminish the horrible suffering inflicted on the many innocent victims and their families, but the argument that a determined psycho hell-bent on slaughtering strangers will be deterred by gun control laws is preposterous on its face. So is the idea that if children are made to pray, they will not kill. (Seriously, are examples of people who have prayed and killed really needed?)
The killer is described as being “a shy and well-mannered young man by a neighbor, who claims the Colorado shooting suspect was heavily involved in his local Presbyterian church.” If that is true, then it is probably safe to assume he prayed.
But maybe he prayed as a youth, and then maybe he didn’t. None of that is the point, any more than whatever guns he might have managed to buy.
The indictment of everyone else for the actions of whatever nut loses it and goes on a rampage has been getting stale for a long, long time.
So stale that I wasn’t even sure it merited a blog post.
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I said this a while ago, and it’s the first thing that popped into my head when I heard your quote.
“a shy and well-mannered young man by a neighbor, who claims the Colorado shooting suspect was heavily involved in his local Presbyterian church.”
My attitude wasn’t to bash churches, my attitude was, “maybe that’s what you thought about him cuz you didn’t give enough of a shit about him to learn about who he really is.”
I think mine is more valid, and definitely less generally offensive. BTW, I also am an atheist.
Douglas:
So now we know that “who he really is” is someone who will go into a movie theater and start killing people, I have to admit the first thing that comes to my mind is . . .
What’s your point?
Gun control laws didn’t deter Hitler.
“The indictment of everyone else for the actions of whatever nut loses and goes on a rampage it has been getting stale for a long, long time.
So stale that I wasn’t even sure it merited a blog post.”
Not really – but…. Nagging about that tendency can work eventually. The Anchoress posted a good one – I disagree with her on most of what she says, but she hit that nail on the head. With a sledgehammer.
Thanks Kathy, especially for making me aware of my misplaced “it.”
🙂
BTW, I love the Anchoress, whether I always agree or not.
Mild-mannered church-going man living in a state with some of the strictest gun-control laws– buys a gun legally and commits a horrible murder.
Who’s that? Mark David Chapman.
Point being, going to church predicts nothing more about your future actions than its left-wing counterpart does, being politically correct.