printJust as I thought the left-liberal “enemedia” could surprise no more, I tuned into CNN and MSNBC to watch their coverage of the San Bernardino shooting; perhaps Chris Hayes had ferreted out more information than Sean Hannity’s lame, prolix reporter?
What do you know?! The androgynous creatures in trendy eye-wear had decided to “treat” the shooting as a case of what the left calls “gun violence.” (The logically correct term is goon violence.) You can just imagine a quick editorial meeting in which, speaking in hushed but fussy falsettos, our anchors arrive at a decision to misreport reality just a tad, go with a certain angle, and NOT TO MENTION THE CAMEL IN THE ROOM. Rather, the murder of 14 people and the wounding of 17 or more would be used as a “teaching moment” to push more gun laws.
France allows its law-abiding citizens no guns. Somehow, the country’s Jihadis found a way to pull off a couple of mass murders this year. (Now Europe’s left-liberals are blaming “Europe’s open borders.” Wait a sec; don’t they like open borders? The stupid are so confusing.)
It’s true. Liberals are stupid. Arguments from freedom are based on reason. Arguments from statism rely on emotion: “If I get Uncle Sam to ban guns; fewer bad thing will happen to me.” Dumb, right? You can’t fix stupid, said comedian Ron White. “There is not a pill you can take, not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.”
Columnist Jack Kerwick’s reductio ad absurdum best illustrates the absurdity of the “gun violence” speak:
Imagine if, while discussing the Holocaust, we spoke about ‘gas chamber violence,’ or while discussing Islamic State mass beheadings, we talked instead of ‘machete violence.’ Or suppose that discussions of the lynching of blacks were peppered with references to ‘rope violence.’ None of this would sit well with decent human beings, for it is clear, or at least it is thought that it should be clear, that such descriptions miss entirely that which is fundamental to the phenomena being described—the perpetrators responsible for these wicked deeds.