Posted by
Andrews on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:06:55 PM
I was watching one of those televised court programs and came upon a puzzling statement of the sort only liberals can make.
After ranting about the ease with which children can thwart their parents' gun cabinets, the host then launched into a tirade against hunting safety courses. "We are teaching 13 year olds how to kill things better," were the words, as far as I recall them.
Now, let me say up front, I am not a hunter. The three words "Jewish", "vegetarian" and "hunter" do not mix well. So, I have no interest in siding with hunters, but I still can't understand this statement.
The left wants to train elementary school children in condom operation, as "kids will have sex, whether you like it or not" so "we might as well make sure they're safe." Yet, they are opposed to hunter safety courses? I think, by the same logic, if kids are going to hunt anyway, I would much prefer they know where not to point the gun, and when not to pull the trigger. In fact, as hunter safety protects people besides the child, I think it actually is more important than sex ed.
But, I suppose applying logic is unfair. The left is not the group to which logic matters. Hunting is "icky", guns are "icky" and sex is "good". So, anything which relates to hunting or guns is bad, no matter how much sense it makes. And sex ed from the moment a toddler can understand English makes perfect sense.
I think I am finally grasping left-wing reasoning, if you can call it that, and that fact is troubling me.
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* Of course, they tried to blame gun cabinets and "the gun culture" for all school violence, conveniently ignoring that this boy had been involved in previous violence, barely punished, and returned to the school. (Public schools suffer much from their inability to actually expel anyone for good. At most, they simply shift trouble students to other, worse schools, and even that is difficult in the extreme.) Their theory also ignores the fact that other school shooters did not use their parents' guns at all, but obtained guns in other ways. It is just sad to see these dolts falling back on the Michael Moore thesis and essentially blaming teen sociopaths on Charlton Heston and the second amendment. If you want to explain
sociopathic teens, maybe we should look at
other parts of our culture, and not look at the gun they used.