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"Media Matters" stoops to new low to defame NRA
A while back, I noted that Bloomberg had given $2,000,000 to the Joyce Foundation, which turned around and awarded $400,000 to "Media Matters," which immediately began postings defaming NRA. Today, it posted a whopper, under the headline of "Pundit Who Blamed UCSB Mass Murder On Gay Marriage Is An NRA Official." It attacks NRA Board member Ken Blackwell. If you read what Blackwell actually wrote, he said "here's a crumbling of the moral foundation of the country," and that the attack on "natural marriage and the family that has been a part" of this. "When these fundamental institutions are attacked and destroyed and weakened and abandoned, you get what we are now seeing and that is a flood of these disturbed people in our society that are causing great, great pain. And as opposed to dealing with the foundational problems, we look for ways of blaming the Second Amendment, or blaming knives or blaming cars when they are used."
That's hardly saying that gay marriage caused a mass slaying. It's closer to the point made by Lashe in his "Culture of Narcissism," where he argues that popular culture teaches people, and especially the young, to become narcissists, because narcissists make good consumers. At age 22, they drive around in BWMs, for instance. It's clear to me that the Santa Barbara shooter was a malignant narcissist. All the themes are there: a pouting rich punk who thinks he's entitled, just because he is. He has a innate human right to sex, because he's what he is, even if he's a mental case who creeps women out. He is a superhuman, entitled to judge and kill strangers to show his power. And in the end he probably committed suicide, because within that mad ego is a mass of self-hate.
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Honesty is the first casualty in the social issues conflict. The liberal cannot win the argument based on fact and logic therefore must utilize emotion, inference and outright lies.
Umm, I was under the impression that we currently live in a golden age of low crime and low violence (source: FBI crime stats). If there's a causal connection between "traditional values" and crime, it would have to be that dumping "traditional values" leads to less crime. (I doubt there's much connection at all, but have not dug into the details.)
The media, and the author of this piece, are confusing "As a result of vastly improved communication, I hear about every serious episode of violence that happens anywhere around the globe" with "There is more violence than ever before".
There is no "flood of disturbed people", there's a flood of formerly local news that now has international distribution.
That said, we should find a (non-hysterical) way to deal with our disturbed people. They do exist, and it's bad when they have guns and hurt people. It's difficult (who designs the "you're disturbed" test? will gun rights get the Jim Crow "literacy test" treatment?), but it's probably easier to deal with the actual problem than a hysterical fantasy that has gun-toting madmen lurking in every shadow.
Spot on David!
But, I think when you wrote "Santa Barbara shooter" you meant Santa Barbara murderer.
He used (at last report) four types of deadly weapon. Knife, hammer, car, and gun.
Let's not perpetuate the narrative that he is a shooter like the guy that goes to the range every month.
I'm thinking they wanted to gin up the same type of backlash that the Java creator got. Get some of the guy activists who are one issue people to swell the existing ranks of the gun control one issue folks.
The only people who will accept the article's premise already belong to the choir.