Proletariat Blog

Yup. Expected and predictable. Gun control advocates and freaks have already begun their spin and readied their propaganda campaigns. European press reaction? Guns kill people. It’s Charlton Heston’s fault.

Across the continent on Tuesday, European media rubber-neck at Monday’s massacre in the United States. Most seem to agree about one thing: The shooting at Virginia Tech is the result of America’s woeful lack of serious gun control laws. In the strongest editorialized image of the day, German cable news broadcaster NTV flashed an image of the former head of the National Rifle Association, the US gun lobby: In other words, blame rifle-wielding Charlton Heston for the 33 dead. ~spiegel.de

It’s a common thread among the left to minimize the threat from Al Qaeda and terrorism and play up the terror from those evil and insidious devices of the devil… guns in the hands of Americans.

For some reason liberalism always seems to accentuate the wrong things. As if the ideology of the left will not allow anything to be literally true. For instance, instead of seeing the violence of a deranged freak as despicable and evil Barak Obama compares the violence of shooting 33 unarmed students to ‘other kinds’ of violence. Like Imus’s verbal violence. Huh? Or the violence of losing one’s job to outsourcing. Outsourcing?!

Yeah, it’s all the same thing. I’m sure corporate executives are perfectly comparable to murderous maniacs who go on a rampage.

“There’s also another kind of violence that we’re going to have to think about. It’s not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways,” he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of “violence.”There’s the “verbal violence” of Imus.

There’s “the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country.”

There’s “the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,”

And so, Obama says, “there’s a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other.”

Many politicians would avoid, I think, suggesting that outsourcing and mass-murder belong in the same category.

From there, he mourns again the Virginia dead, and then says, “This is an opportunity I think that all of us have today to reflect,” and then heads into his stump speech — education, healthcare, energy policy, politics being broken — but returning to the Virginia Tech shootings. ~politico.com

The real question is whether or not the liberal ideology is purely evil in and of itself or does it just have evil results? Gun control, for example, results in evil consequences mainly for law abiding citizens, leaving criminals virtually unaffected.

Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down the street, pistols drawn.

It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.

Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech’s student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime. ~roanoke.com

I listened to several roundtables on radio today explaining the absurdities of allowing everyone access to handguns. They said that ‘leakage’ is the reason why our existing gun control policies have not reduced gun violence. Leakage from lawful gun owners to unlawful gun owners. The implicit answer to this leakage problem is a smaller pool of legal ownership. What they danced around was the hidden message that no one should own guns. They weren’t quite able to make that statement.

We must tighten lax gun laws

…But we can sure make it a lot tougher for them to do that, and we can sure bring down the number of guns freely circulating in every hamlet and valley of the land. Stricter paperwork oversight alone would keep a good many folks from ever buying a gun in the first place. Add on hard-as-nails local gun laws and stern penalties for violating them. It’s got to start happening.

Fine, guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people. But if people who want to shoot people don’t have guns to shoot those people with, then those are people who don’t get shot. ~nydailynews.com

But the Democrats who want to get elected are starting to listen to the electorate.

After Gore’s defeat, Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic Party, was vocal in advising Democrats to abandon gun control as an issue in future elections.

“I believe we ought to move it out, let the individual communities decide their gun laws and how guns ought to be treated,” he said. “It has had a devastating impact on elections because the NRA has targeted and spent millions of dollars distorting individual members’ views and Al Gore’s views.”

Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after Gore’s loss: “It has been a disaster that the Democratic party has fallen to the Rosie O’Donnell reputation for getting rid of all the guns. That is a mindless approach, frankly. If you’re from a rural state like I am, you know there is nothing wrong with gun ownership, hunting, or self-defense.”  ~politico.com

Democrats are stuck between their urge to ban guns and their desire for gun owner votes. Harry Reid publically put the brakes on the gun control signaling to the rest of the left-wing wackos that they should hold off.

Democrats have grown less supportive of gun control legislation as a party in the past decade.

After the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, then-Vice President Al Gore cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate on legislation to reduce the availability of certain firearms. He and other gun control advocates claimed victory, but many strategists believe the vote hurt him in the 2000 presidential election.

Gun control tends to win favor among suburban voters, but it often stirs opposition in less heavily populated areas.

So far this year, there has been little evidence that Democrats feel otherwise after winning control of the House by picking up seats last fall in parts of Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Arizona and elsewhere where hunting is popular. ~yahoo.com