With all the important stuff that has piled up from beef industry meetings and events through January and February on top of Washington’s stampede to mostly nowhere, we guess it takes absolute idiocy to break through the logjam. We’ll deal with mCOOL and Endangered Species later today but first, the real news of the weekend.
Fans of Sports Illustrated are familiar with a feature they’ve run for years called “This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse,” featuring some really outlandish statement by an athlete or some stupid administrative move by a team or the NCAA. Well, this week’s sign for society in general shows how hysterical non-gun owners — our school system in particular — have gotten. This is why we have warned our readers, despite assurances from some in Congress that major gun control legislation will go nowhere, that this is an issue more about emotional instability than facts. Here in Colorado, we are being stampeded by bill after bill of gun legislation, including things impossible to enforce, like background checks on private gun sales.
We must warn you before you read this. This is not a joke. Legislation has already been introduced to prevent a reocurrence in the Maryland legislature.
In a Maryland school, a second grader has been suspended for two days for possession of a firearm in class — a handgun nibbled out of the Pop Tart in his lunch! It seems the kid had been trying to nibble it into the shape of a mountain but that wasn’t working, according to the Daily Caller. When he realized it was looking a bit like a handgun, his father said he held it up and said, “Bang, bang,” (The Blaze, 03/10/13).
The whole incident was so horrific, other kids in the class have been offered trauma counseling.
Personally, it would appear some teachers and administrators need counseling or less traumatic jobs than teaching simple reality to second graders. George Will brought up Michelle Obama and Michael Bloomberg in his discussion of this ridiculous incident. We suppose we can expect moves from both to ban Pop Tarts on public school premises on Double Whammy grounds: nutrition they don’t like and dangerous weapons possession. Will noted that a pastor in St. Louis is working on a program to buy back toy guns and swords from children there. Mark Steyn, in for Rush on Monday, reported another kid’s cupcakes were sent home from school because they had little plastic soldiers on top of them.
Somehow, a society and government that sees no danger in declared debt and off-budget debt that threatens to drown the entire planet, has a tidal wave of people literally scared witless at the sight of a gun or gun-like object, even when it’s not pointing at anything. Personally, we’ve no wish to be looking down the barrel of a real 12-gauge pointed at us. But there is a lot of security and safety-like feelings associated with having firearms to prevent something like that happening…like having my own 12-gauge or 30-30 or other means of dissuasion or defense.
We cannot explain why some people get full out, eyeball-rolling hysterical at the mere shape of a gun. But even if that emotional irrationality is the basis for trying to make sure only criminals have guns and the rest of us get killed, maimed, violated or merely robbed before law enforcement can arrive, rational segments of society have to fend off this wave of hysteria. If what these unstable creatures want comes to pass, law enforcement will have to save money by cutting back on too-late patrols so they can beef up their after-the-fact homicide investigation divisions and hire lots more coroners.
Today’s modern American citizens have never had to live anywhere in a society where citizens don’t have guns but only criminals do. They do not really understand the safety inherent through the deterrent effects of gun possession by citizens. It’s just always been there and they don’t realize the calamity that would occur in society if it were removed. But they are hell bent on us finding out.
Five thousand years of supposedly civilizing trends in society, some education and deductive reasoning skills — and we are reduced to hysteria over Pop Tarts. A sign of the apocalypse?
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This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Gun Hysteria Gone Mad
With all the important stuff that has piled up from beef industry meetings and events through January and February on top of Washington’s stampede to mostly nowhere, we guess it takes absolute idiocy to break through the logjam. We’ll deal with mCOOL and Endangered Species later today but first, the real news of the weekend.
Fans of Sports Illustrated are familiar with a feature they’ve run for years called “This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse,” featuring some really outlandish statement by an athlete or some stupid administrative move by a team or the NCAA. Well, this week’s sign for society in general shows how hysterical non-gun owners — our school system in particular — have gotten. This is why we have warned our readers, despite assurances from some in Congress that major gun control legislation will go nowhere, that this is an issue more about emotional instability than facts. Here in Colorado, we are being stampeded by bill after bill of gun legislation, including things impossible to enforce, like background checks on private gun sales.
We must warn you before you read this. This is not a joke. Legislation has already been introduced to prevent a reocurrence in the Maryland legislature.
In a Maryland school, a second grader has been suspended for two days for possession of a firearm in class — a handgun nibbled out of the Pop Tart in his lunch! It seems the kid had been trying to nibble it into the shape of a mountain but that wasn’t working, according to the Daily Caller. When he realized it was looking a bit like a handgun, his father said he held it up and said, “Bang, bang,” (The Blaze, 03/10/13).
The whole incident was so horrific, other kids in the class have been offered trauma counseling.
Personally, it would appear some teachers and administrators need counseling or less traumatic jobs than teaching simple reality to second graders. George Will brought up Michelle Obama and Michael Bloomberg in his discussion of this ridiculous incident. We suppose we can expect moves from both to ban Pop Tarts on public school premises on Double Whammy grounds: nutrition they don’t like and dangerous weapons possession. Will noted that a pastor in St. Louis is working on a program to buy back toy guns and swords from children there. Mark Steyn, in for Rush on Monday, reported another kid’s cupcakes were sent home from school because they had little plastic soldiers on top of them.
Somehow, a society and government that sees no danger in declared debt and off-budget debt that threatens to drown the entire planet, has a tidal wave of people literally scared witless at the sight of a gun or gun-like object, even when it’s not pointing at anything. Personally, we’ve no wish to be looking down the barrel of a real 12-gauge pointed at us. But there is a lot of security and safety-like feelings associated with having firearms to prevent something like that happening…like having my own 12-gauge or 30-30 or other means of dissuasion or defense.
We cannot explain why some people get full out, eyeball-rolling hysterical at the mere shape of a gun. But even if that emotional irrationality is the basis for trying to make sure only criminals have guns and the rest of us get killed, maimed, violated or merely robbed before law enforcement can arrive, rational segments of society have to fend off this wave of hysteria. If what these unstable creatures want comes to pass, law enforcement will have to save money by cutting back on too-late patrols so they can beef up their after-the-fact homicide investigation divisions and hire lots more coroners.
Today’s modern American citizens have never had to live anywhere in a society where citizens don’t have guns but only criminals do. They do not really understand the safety inherent through the deterrent effects of gun possession by citizens. It’s just always been there and they don’t realize the calamity that would occur in society if it were removed. But they are hell bent on us finding out.
Five thousand years of supposedly civilizing trends in society, some education and deductive reasoning skills — and we are reduced to hysteria over Pop Tarts. A sign of the apocalypse?
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