Tuesday, April 24, 2018

what used to be

 There was a man wearing nothing but a jacket that shoots and kills four people at a Waffle house. The news reports it as an attack by a man with a semi-automatic rifle. The suspicion is he has mental health problems. I had to stop , cock my head to the side a little bit, and think about that. This guy, apparently naked, shoots two people outside the Waffle house and two more inside, may have mental health issues ? He's not crazy, just having an issue. Then, I find out he was using an AR-!5 style rifle. Well, the initial report was a semi-automatic rifle and but I know they are the same thing. I couldn't help but wonder why the media wasn't using that as the lead in , the headline to the story. Man with assault rifle attacks Waffle house ! Could it be that this story doesn't fit the current narrative ? Could it be that people killing other people with guns really do have mental issues ? Nah, it's the " assault " rifles that do that, not semi-automatics.
 What an inconvenient story that is. A crazy person with a gun shooting people. Just how are we going to blame the gun this time ? The guy was naked, even the most liberal thinker is going to realize this guy isn't playing with a full deck. We can't tie this to a racist attack either. I don't remember them even saying the race of the people shot. Later, it was revealed an African-American  disarmed him. Oh man, a black person acting as a hero, just how is he being oppressed. There is just nothing useful about this story. He was known to the Secret Service, had his guns taken away in fact, but his Dad gave him back the guns. He stole a car about a week before this but the Police didn't know that until after the fact. Man the only thing glaring in this story is the guy is a nut ! And that truth ties in with the concept of people killing people, not guns. An example of a crazy person with a gun doing crazy stuff. And people knew he was nuts or at the very least suspected it. And now, the news is forced to report him as a suspect in a shooting ! Notice they don't call it a mass shooting though, that's reserved for other incidents, not this one. And he is just a suspect, could have been a different naked man with a semi-automatic rifle, we have to wait for the trial. They are holding this guy in a jail cell. Why isn't he in a mental ward ? He's nuts ! I don't have to go to school to know that much.
 I don't know all the gun laws. I don't know the criteria for losing those guns and the right to posses them. I do know the Secret Service caught this nut in a restricted area by the white house and confiscated his weapons. For what I can only assume are legal reason those weapons were returned to his father. The father gave them back to his son. The son, obviously mentally unstable used one of them to commit murder. It's apparent to me the problem is,  the guy is a nut ! You can't blame the gun ! If the Secret Service returned the guns due to legal reason , you can't blame them. Can you blame the father ? Perhaps you can assign a degree of blame to that man if he was aware of how sick his son is. Is he responsible ?
 To me a great deal of this stems from those liberal people hollering for gun bans, more restrictions, and all of that. It is those folks that insist you mustn't call a nut a nut ! It is those same folks insisting gender dysphoria isn't a mental illness. Is it any wonder they don't recognize a nut job when they see one ! The very same bunch screaming and protesting that it is " my choice " to murder the unborn upset when a crazy person makes that choice,  and then blames it on the gun ! Oh no, whatever deviant or aberrant lifestyle I choose is my business and you can't say anything about it. You don't want to hold anyone accountable for their choices, not even express an opinion on any of that. Those that do will be labeled as some sort phobic person ! And then nuts with guns shoot people and you want to blame the gun ! Well I remember when the normal thing was to point out when a person was acting like a nut case. I remember when if you did bad things you were held to account. Of course I remember when normal was normal, today I'm not sure that exists anymore. What's normal today ? All I know is, it ain't what it used to be. 

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