It’s Not About Shootings; It’s About Murder
23rd February 2018
Look around you—all the “news” stories covering the recent Florida tragedy talk about shooters and shooting. Shooting is not the problem. Murder is the problem.
These aberrant kids have been conditioned into thinking it’s OK to murder their classmates. There are no consequences that matter. Killing is fun. Heaven and hell are pipe dreams. No sense of morality or decent social conduct has been inculcated into their behavior.
Back in the day, no one could have imagined going into a school, or anywhere, and just randomly killing everyone in sight. Where would a person even get such an idea? Where would a person even get such an idea? Read that again. You know the answer. We had the guns, they were even easier to get—no papers at all.
When I was a kid — Hell, when I was in the Navy — nobody getting on a plane worried about it being hijacked, or blown up, or flown into a building. The prospect literally did not occur to us. Then some bright psychopath had an idea, and life became uglier for everybody else.
No one in mass media is talking about murder and murderers. Watch. They’re only talking about shooting and shooters. By itself, shooters and shooting is not anything bad—and they know that. Being a shooter and shooting is what good Americans do all the time.
Murder is ugly, too ugly to bear. Murderers are horrible, to be rejected outright by society. No glory in being a murderer. Especially no prize for being a mass murderer. So the media avoids it, and in their conspicuous campaign against private arms, they avoid dealing with the murder angle.
The media are leading the nation down a path of perdition, turning shooters and shooting—people and activities with wonderful, excellent attributes—into targets for fear, loathing and legislative assault. And they’re good at it.
Look at the stories. It’s all about the guns, never about the gunner. Somehow we are supposed to believe that merely picking up a firearm turns an ordinary person into a deranged killer.
That’s perfectly understandable when you realize the sort of people who are writing the stories. To them, anyone who would contemplate for even a second picking up a firearm is deeply flawed and, in their inner soul, is essentially a deranged shooter merely looking for a place to happen. Like keeping alcohol from a potential alcoholic, we must therefore keep guns from potential mass-murderers. It’s for their own good. (And For The Children! Can’t forget that one….)