The Loons Lost No Time

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395601/happy-new-year-happy-new-gun-control-nonsense-charles-c-w-cooke

 

 

In the essay depicted above, Gopnik considers what he pretentiously terms “The Moral Work of Gun Control.” The result is one part The-Science-is-Settled desperation, one part smug social-positioning, and one part literary catharsis — all washed down with a healthy dose of basic ignorance. Take, by way of example, the very first paragraph

The news that the parents of the children massacred two years ago in Sandy Hook, near Newtown, Connecticut, by a young man with a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle, were undertaking a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer was at once encouraging and terribly discouraging. The encouraging part is that those parents, suffering from a grief that those of us who are only witnesses to it can barely begin to comprehend, haven’t, despite the failure to reinstate assault-weapons bans and stop the next massacre, given way to despair. Like Richard Martinez, after his son was murdered by a weapon that should never have been in the hands of a lunatic, or anyone else, for that matter, they’re allowing themselves to be angry, and then turning their anger into action: they’re naming the business that helped kill their children and asking a court to hold that business responsible.

This is most impressive. In the space of just 144 words, Gopnik has managed to: 1) conflate the supposed problem of “assault weapons” with the actions of the man who murdered Richard Martinez’s son (when, in fact, that killer did not use a rifle, but instead used a trio of bog-standard handguns that were legal even in California); 2) propose that those handguns “should never have been in the hands of a lunatic” (when, in fact, that “lunatic” passed the federal and state background checks that Gopnik’s ilk routinely sell as a panacea for our problems); and 3) pretend that there is any evidence whatsoever that to “reinstate assault-weapons bans” would likely “stop the next massacre” — which, as even the Obama administration’s DOJ concedes, there is not.

Incredibly, it gets even worse. Getting into his stride, Gopnik contends that:

 

[Jim No Horse]

It never stops....reason....logic...out the window. ..dang fools...Jim

[Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022]

Our fight will never end.

[Rusty Chains]

Reason and logic are all very well to educate the ignorant and to an extent even the stupid. Hoplophobes are by definition irrational and incapable of applying logic or reason to the subject.

 

Participants in the shooting sports need to be aware of how our enemies operate and shut down their attempts before they can build any momentum with the stupid and the ignorant. Our enemy is devious, implacable, and not entirely sane; it is up to us to watch for them and interrupt them (a bit of rudeness may be called for) with questions that show to the ignorant and hopefully the stupid that the enemy is not interested in fixing any of the problems they say they wish to.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Reason and logic are all very well to educate the ignorant and to an extent even the stupid. Hoplophobes are by definition irrational and incapable of applying logic or reason to the subject.

 

Participants in the shooting sports need to be aware of how our enemies operate and shut down their attempts before they can build any momentum with the stupid and the ignorant. Our enemy is devious, implacable, and not entirely sane; it is up to us to watch for them and interrupt them (a bit of rudeness may be called for) with questions that show to the ignorant and hopefully the stupid that the enemy is not interested in fixing any of the problems they say they wish to.

 

 

Exactly.And why, distasteful as it may be, we need to read everything they print and post. Be active in commenting on their social media sites, comment online to news paper articles and letters to the editor, keep track of anti-civil right capons bragging about new legislation on Facebook and Twitter and responding to them and their sycophants.