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The Spectacle Blog
Last Friday morning, we wrote this:
The President will speak (in this case, President Obama is now set to speak at 11:20 this morning). The left will seek to make an issue of this, as they did most recently with the shooting by a disturbed loner of then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. There will be the usual shrieking about gun control. There will be mind-numbing discussions of whatever violence is in the Batman movie and isn’t our culture all to blame. Some conservative somewhere will be targeted for doing something if this guy has ever watched Fox, belonged to the NRA, listened to talk radio or picked up a book by Ayn Rand. And, of course, the 24-year old man who committed this latest act of horror — not all that far from the scene of the 1999 Columbine shootings where two high school kids killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher — will be psychoanalyzed to a fare thee well.
It’s now Monday morning, and all of these things have, in fact, now happened. Friday was barely halfway through when Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy site recorded the inevitable “it was Rush” nuttiness. (For the record — obvious though it may be — the shooter was prepping for this event for months, long before Rush ever mentioned the Batman movie.)
To illustrate how perfectly inane these leftist nuts are was this posting that read:
Hannity beck limbaugh paraphernalia Found at aurora shooters home.
Of course, as the entire world knew, the police hadn’t even gotten into the shooter’s place because it was booby-trapped beyond belief. Which is to say, this post was about as brazen an outright lie as one could conceive.
The gun control business has started, fueled by the usual suspects. The Mayor of New York, who goes nowhere in his own city without pistol packing guards, wants everyone else disarmed. Lead by example, Mayor Bloomberg? Not a prayer.
Movie critic Roger Ebert chimes in at the Times that it’s all about guns. Not movies, mind you, guns. If we were to have “movie control” — ban movies — Mr. Ebert would be out of a job and surely feel compelled to give back his lifetime of earnings made reviewing these dastardly things. Right? Wrong.
Who’s kidding whom here?
The only things people want banned or controlled are things that they A) don’t like or B) don’t apply to them.
Leftists hate Rush and Hannity so — blame them.
ABC’s liberal newsies hate the Tea Party — blame them.
Liberal movie critic Roger Ebert wants to protect his own turf — movies — so not a peep about movie control.
The definition of a “nano-second,” Mark Steyn said on Friday when subbing for Rush, “is the time between a mass shooting and some guy from the left blaming it on talk radio, or Sarah Palin, or Fox News.”
Ditto.
Americans have long since gotten on to this very bizarre, very sad game.
A game which, it needs to be said, does nothing for the real victims here — the people who were in that movie theater when an insane man went about his insane task.
A man who bears 100% of the responsibility for his actions — not anyone, nor anything, else.
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Occam's Tool| 7.23.12 @ 1:02PM
The problem is excessive Liberal interference in the proper medication of the mentally ill. The people to blame for this are Thomas Szasz and the ACLU.
It is not about guns---he could have purchased them illegally. It is, instead, about our refusal to recognize that Schizophrenia and Manic Depressive illnesses are diseases which have EXCELLENT treatment. But the treatment only works if you take it, and failure to recognize illness tends to be a part of the diseases mentioned, to a great extent.
Patient's rights advocates make this much worse. Much, much worse. And the ACLU has done their best to make involuntary treatment as difficult as possible to do.
AllAmericanAmerican| 7.23.12 @ 1:30PM
OT I'm not arguing with you in general, but in the case of the Aurora shooting, do we know if this guy was mentally ill?
So many unanswered questions about this and IMO there is something deeper here. The most obvious questions is where does an unemployed college dropout get the approximately $10K to arm and outfit himself for this mission?
Why did he go through the trouble to meticulously boobytrap his house, then right away tell the cops about it?
Why did he use body armor if he was just gonna surrender without a fight?
The timing is suspicious. A week before the UN small arms treaty gets voted on in the Senate?
Then there are reports now that someone propped the emergency exit door open for him. Who was that?
I dunno man---we have a government that thought NOTHING of running guns to violent drug cartels in Mexico for the simple reason they wanted to lay waste to the 2A. All the death and destruction caused by the weapons was simply "collateral damage" to them---a means to an end. Are we to assume that same government wouldn't have any qualms about 12 dead in a movie theater if it gins up anger towards gun owners/2A?
We keep calling Obama a Marxist and/or a communist. By definition they have NO RESPECT for human life. I would not put ANYTHING past them. For all we know this is a preview of what's coming on October.
Dai Alanye | 7.23.12 @ 3:39PM
Occam is correct: potentially-violent schizophrenics must be appropriately medicated. One difficulty is the side effects of psychotropic drugs, especially in large doses. In addition to certain physical problems, they force personality changes that the patients naturally dislike. But for society's sake dangerous mentally-ill must be detected, treated and monitored.
Well-meaning but utopian patient rights groups such as NAMI make this difficult. Another problem is the belief of some in the psychiatric industry that mental illness can be cured. Nope, it's a genetic problem, and at the present state of knowledge can only be alleviated through drugs.
Probably anyone experienced with schizophrenics immediately recognized the likelihood of Holmes being one. Two questions arise, however: Why wasn't he detected earlier, and where did he obtain the money to buy all his weaponry?
Occam's Tool| 7.23.12 @ 1:04PM
And now, perhaps, Mr. Eaton, it should come full force HOME to you why you pissed me off so the other week. In the hands of a capable psychopharmacologist, this fellow could have been medicated into safety with a far, far lower risk of decompensation and danger (say,about 60-70% less in the hands of the former psychiatrist for the Alabama Chain gang).
Psychiatric illness is NO CROCK. I rest my case.
Occam's Tool| 7.23.12 @ 1:16PM
By the way, does the VITUPERATION make more sense, as well? If you had been present the number of times I have had to convince arrogant idiotic jurists of the need to medicate dangerous people who had already attacked others, IMMEDIATELY after the Loughner case, you would understand more. I understand that there is a legal way of thought; I am not convinced of its superiority. No amount of bloodshed seems to enable the ACLU to think; as it is said: "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
I'm sure you are a fine person, but this is my point. While there are too many variables to be able to predict exactly WHEN a man will be violent, or if he will be violent, forseeability is posiible to a certain degree; my experience is that in court we see Lillyputian word game playing often rather than grim assessment. Perhaps it is because the jurists are held harmless if things go South. Perhaps this should change, and judges should be liable for their decisions as MDs are.
irish19| 7.23.12 @ 2:05PM
OT, are you sure you're on the right thread here? Who is this guy Eaton?
Tom Kyba| 7.23.12 @ 4:49PM
You posters are all better people than I am, because I would like to put a bullet in this miscreant's head, then they can study his brain to their freakin' hearts' content. All this hand-wringing and psychoanalyzing will careen back and forth until some new bag of filth kills in numbers again, which will be followed by more hand-wringing etc. repeat ad nauseum.
RWinks| 7.24.12 @ 10:51AM
Just a point I'd like to make--another shooting and we have to suffer through self-indulgent "news conferences" by local Barney Fifes; 24/7 coverage by so-called news channels with wall to wall speculation that enlightens no one, and probably a week of repetitive nonsense.
Meanwhile, more people-- 15-- were killed the same day in one vehicle on a Texas highway. Why does one event rate 10,000 times the coverage? On average, more than 110 innocent people die on the nation's roads EVERY DAY. This society needs to get a grip. The odds are better of someone being in a vehicle that leaves the road into water and dying from DROWNING than being a victim of a mass shooting.