Every time something bad happens, we find every excuse in the book except the most obvious and actual reason for why the event occurred. Now, we can't turn around without hearing the dumbest rationalizations for why the Newtown shooting tragedy occurred, all to take heat off of the gun control debate and otherwise obfuscate and waste time. Sound familiar? It's just the Global Warming redirect strategy all over again...
Of course the most obvious scapegoat is video games. I have two ardent Call of Duty armchair "soldiers" in my house, so I know something about this topic and I agree that it desensitizes people to violence; however, without a high capacity assault rifle or semi-automatic pistol, it gets a lot harder to kill a lot of people. They have the exact same video games all over Europe and Canada without the recurring mass shootings...Just today, Art Cashin is telling us that we should not "simply attack assault weapons", we need to look at video games. Let's be clear, there is only one purpose for handguns and assault rifles - to kill people. These are not weapons intended for hunting animals, they are intended for hunting people. We live in a mentally unstable society, for reasons going far beyond video games, but we are now being bombarded with propaganda suggesting that altering video game content is going to fix the gun control issue. Let me put it in a way that even Art Cashin can understand. Which is safer - a country that allows video games and no guns. Or a country with 300 million assorted assault weapons and no video games? Time's up.
After the Newtown attack, this guy below threatened to kill kids at an elementary scool. Does he look like he plays xBox all day? When this guy (or one just like him) shows up with a cache of assault rifles in Art Cashin's tony neighbourhood, you can bet the underwear will be mighty stained in RomneyVille...
And let me use the analogy of outsourcing when it comes to high powered assault rifles with 100 round magazines. It's all fun and games until you are the one being pointed at down the barrel of the gun and your job/life is on the line. Oh, and how long does it take to convert a semi-auto assault rifle to full auto? Not long, if you know what you are doing. Here are some do-it-yourself books on the topic.
Mutual Assured Destruction
And for the record, I am all for the right to bear arms, I am not for living in a paranoid armed camp populated by mentally unstable people with full body armour and untold numbers of of automatic weapons. As I said here, the heavy artillery hasn't even come to the fight yet...This entire idea that everyone carrying guns made us safer, was all premised under the specious assumption of mutual assured destruction - you can shoot me, I can shoot you, we are even. Unfortunately the doctrine of M.A.D. assumes both parties are equally sane, otherwise it works the opposite of how it was intended. As always, the Idiocracy has to learn the obvious the hard way...
