See and hear no evil!

A great article from David French at National review.

Notable quote:  "The United States is facing a puzzling paradox. Even as gun crime has plunged precipitously from the terrible highs of the early 1990s, mass shootings have increased."

1.  Guns have been with us for a long time.  In the past they were more available than they are now. Perhaps as close as we got to this new tragic phenomenon was Charles Whitman in the UT Clock Tower.

2.  So what has changed in the years since then?  More and more restrictiona on gun ownership have been proposed and enacted.  More guns are in the hands of law-abiding citizens.  As French notes, gun crime is down, but this new form has arisen. As with most of our current problems everyone will find their convenient demon to blame that will help them avoid looking too closely at the facts.

3.  How is it guns?  The best answer is it is easier to blame the convenient devils; guns and gun owners and the NRA than it is to look yourselves in the eye and see that the tearing down of the moral structures that created the nation, the disdain and hatred for those who maintain law and order, the relativist morality, venom toward the traditions that created the society you now languish in, and your general sense of individual importance and entitlement have lead to this mess. You have reared a generation of potential monsters with your reverence for single parenthood and your inability to set limits and create fully functioning human beings.

4.  You must know that as much as you hate law enforcement, you will need those police you despise and the military you disparage if you ever hope to even attempt take guns away from the law-abiding populace. I suspect many of them, like the sheriffs in several jurisdictions who are refusing to enforce unconstitutional restrictions, will not comply with orders to fire on their fellow citizens.  You had better check that attitude.