Shooting Politics

Here we go again.

Some deranged loser goes nuts and kills a bunch of people.

The reactions are both predictable and occasianally sickening.

I swear, if I hadn't paid so much for my DeWalt jobsite radio, I would have thrown a hammer at it a few times over the news reporting on the shootings at Va. Tech. I knew, I fucking knew in advance how the story would be covered. You would think I would be past outrage at this point in my life at the shoddy, predictable "journalism" I have been exposed to for 46 years.

You may have a problem with Rush Limbaugh. But you have to admit, when he talks about "templates" that the news media have he is right on. As I said, I absolutely could have told you how the news would cover this. I could probably predict what the next few days would bring right down to the "key words" they will use.

I guess the tipping point for me, after hearing the usual bullshit coverage, was when they started reporting how this guy had "shown signs" of being a fucking nut job. Gee, ya' think?

Look, there are two ways these things go. Either the neighbors express shock and dismay "He seemed so normal" or some people are found to point out the perps abnormal behavior before the incident.

In this case it's the latter. I was bombarded today with reports of how weird this scumbag was. Well, NO SHIT. HE JUST SHOT A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE! YOU THINK MAYBE HE HAD SOME ISSUES?!? (Sorry if it seems I am yelling at you. I'm taking my frustrations out on reporting agencies and the questions they leave hanging.) So what's the point? Do we start locking up people for "showing signs" or something? Who the fuck is going to be the judge of when the next homicidal maniac is about to go off? Can we start right now by locking up war protesters, dirty hippies, vegans, environmentalist extremists, and Goth Chicks?

I mean, Good Fucking God, what is the point of reporting that the shooter was a bit strange? Are you trying to pave the way for lawsuits or what? "Someone" maybe should have seen this coming? That's always the way, isn't it? "Someone" should have done "something", right? I mean, that's where the coverage seems to be going. Well what the hell were they going to do?

Ahh. I feel better now. On to the next rant, which is the predictable political reaction from gun banner types.

"We need to stand up and do something"

So said Carolyn McCarthy, a (surprise!) Democrat representative from New York.

Predictable, again. Every time there is some shooting that draws attention like this one has, there are a few things that happen:

• The news reporting agencies piss me off
• There is a candle light vigil
• Democrats start trying to nullify the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution in violation of their Oath of Office

It's really kind of sickening in a way. Here you have all of these lives affected by the killer. Politicians, could you at least give the families some time to grieve? You're taking advantage of a terrible event to push your agenda. If holding hearings and such is so important, why wait until now? It's craven, it's transparent political maneuvering. It's why so many people don't vote.

Here's a good example of priorities, with an elected official I have actually met and talked to. He is a lying piece of shit. I am ashamed that he is from Texas, the best part of him ran down the crack of his momma's ass. Lloyd Doggett shows the courage of his convictions here:

"Unless we get some leadership from the White House, we're not going to take this kind of political damage bringing up something that would never become law," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.), a gun-control advocate.

Oh, I get it. You care so much about your position on this issue that you won't take it up unless you are sure of success? Asshole.

What Lloyd is saying here is that the gun control advocates have a solution to prevent a future mass killing but that it is not worth a political risk. Typical Doggett, politically calculating bull fucking shit coming out of his mouth. (I know, I was the camera man for an impromptu field interview when he was running for State Representative 20 something years ago. Hasn't changed a bit, it's all about him getting and keeping power. That's why I use such strong language in denouncing him and his motives. I know.)

So, anyway, gun control advocates, why don't you grow a fucking spine and announce publicly what you really want? I know why, and Lloyd Doggett, in what surely must have been a weak moment, voiced it. Your politicians don't really give a fuck about stopping incidences like this one now, you and they just want to gain power over the rest of us. You just don't like guns, you have an irrational fear of them. You are like MADD, there is no law too punitive and restrictive of human freedom for you to punish the rest of us for what some irresponsible or insane asshole did to you.

Was anyone but me alive in the 1990's and paying attention? Boy, that Brady Bill, when it became the law of the land, it was going to put a stop to this kind of thing! Remember? Oh, but now it's not enough.

It never is with these people.

I'm going to have to spend some time someday writing about how people tend to project their inadaquecies onto others. And how politicians take advantage of people's willingness to lose their liberty to pass laws to make people feel good that "something is getting done" about some problem. Then, the same typical assholes break the law, fuck up the plan and more useless laws are passed. The cycle repeats. But I guess I just did.