Demon Gun

Another shooting and once again another assault on our eardrums from all the usual suspects. Without any information on the incident, except that a shooting had occurred in an Asian venue, a chorus of Gun Prohibition furies immediately pounced on the opportunity to denounce "another act of gun violence."

The Democrats in particular jumped at the chance to be proactive about an issue that does not involve redistribution of wealth from their donor class or their uppper middle class base.

Not to be outdone, self-avowed "community leaders" joined in bewaling another "hate crime" that afflicted a "community" already under "assault." Hours after this denunciation sheriffs disclosed that the prime suspect was himself Asian.

After the usual denunciations Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan concluded by saying "Let’s wrap our arms around the community and put in the work to prevent these senseless acts of violence."

Yessss!!! Hear, Hear!! Enough is Enough !!!! BAN GUN

OK... but how does one prevent a "senseless" act?

The word "senseless" means "Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense ... foolish; unwise; unreasonable, absurd, ilogical, irrational, pointless."

The idea of prevention is to take logical and practical steps which are reasonably calculated to prevent a knowable occurrence; for example, using a condom, covering windows with plywood, and so on.

But something that is "senseless" is unknowable until it takes place. Before it takes place it exists in the universe of randommness. How is it possible to prevent a randomn occurrence? It is like trying to predict chaos.

The inane hysteria that emits from Gun Prohibitionists is reflected in the term "gun violence" which has convinced them that the "thing" at issue - violence - is something done by guns; that the gun is in someway the cause of the violence. That's the way adjectival nouns work.

To attribute to an object -- a cut piece of stone or a tree perhaps -- the ability to cause something is the core of all fetish totems and taboos. But that is precisely what Gun Prohbitionists have done, just the way their erstwhile predecessors attributed all evil in society to demon rum.

So now we have Demon Gun.

Guns don't act senselessly; people do. If people are acting senselessly the remediative efforts must be directed at the psychological, social and economic causes. Banning guns is to chase after a chimeral solution.

As to chimeral solutions, Sheriff Luna stated, "California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country... let's look across our nation and see what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you this - the status quo's not working."

And what precisely is the "status quo"? California has among the strictest gun laws in the country. Simply the list (not the text) of statutes prohibiting gun use, possession and regulation is three pages long. The state's "Assault Weapons Identification Guide" goes on for 96 pages. What more is left?

California's gun control regime has obviousely failed. It will continue to fail because it is blaming the stone for the hand that threw it.

CNN reports that "The gun wrestled away from the man in Alhambra was a Cobray M11 9mm semi-automatic weapon according to a law enforcement official." What can be said is that the gun is not listed in 96 page Identification Guide.

The Cobray M11 is designed to take 30-round magazines which are now illegal in California. (Penal Code 32310(c)) For some reason law enforcement had yet to clarify, as of this writing, whether the gunman had an illegal magazine or whether he used a legal 10 round magazine.

But it really makes no difference. If the gun or the magazine were illegal, it just goes to show how laws do not prevent crime. Laws can punish crimes, but why anyone in his or her right mind would think that laws prevent crime is beyond me.

If the gun or the magazine was not prohibited it just goes to show that California will have to ban all guns outright. "Mass shootings" are defined as those involving three or more persons. Anyone who thinks that a mass shooting cannot be accomplished with shotguns, revolvers or bolt action rifles doesn't know weapons. That it is easier to kill with a semi-automatic does not mean gun violence cannot be accomplished with non automatics.

Banning all guns outright which is what Gun Prohibitionists are really after and what they will have to do if they continue to pursue their Total Safety in Senselessness agenda.

Since when has prohibition worked? In the lead up to the 18th Amendment, ardent, monomaniacal prohibitionists traced all evil to Demon Rum. They assured us that once alcohol was banned "there will be world peace." I'm not kidding, I saw the film footage with my own eyes. The day after the amendment was pased the mafia was born in this country. And, speaking of crime, how's the war on drug working?

We laugh at primitive people who make a taboo of some Byanyang Tree, but gun-controllers are no different. They have a fear infused gun fetish. They are convinced that if they abolish guns they will have cured the psychological and socio-economic causes of senseless acts. Like all primitive fanatics they will trample on everything and anything in pursuit of their ghostly solution, including the Constitution.

Democrats have become the party of subversive insanity.

© WCG