Okay, this isn't really a BARF, just a parody of one I found...
Posted on 10/06/2002 7:59:24 AM PDT by JURB
"The Angel of Death is stalking the streets and leafy suburbs of Maryland in the form of an unknown and, thus far, unseen sniper who has seemingly murdered up to six people in cold blood and for no apparent motive.
The fear of sudden death hangs like a shroud over the entire State under which its hapless and anxious citizens scurry from cover to cover lest they be the sniper's next victim. This is the real America; rheumy-eyed, mistrustful and dangerous. A place where any passing stranger could be a stone-cold killer and where a violent and bloody death waits just around the next turning for it's vulnerable and haunted citizens.
While the police search frantically to find the elusive marksman before he claims his next victim, maybe they should pause to consider whether they will ever really bring the guilty party to justice. For, regardless of who's finger is actually pulling the trigger, the real culprit here is America itself.
Despite the increasingly horrific death toll, this is a nation which still clings rabidly to the absurd and outdated notion of allowing private citizens to own firearms. The simple fact that guns kill people is so banal in its obvious truth that it should not need restating anywhere; except that is, among the Republicans and their gun- lobby puppet-masters who will baulk at the merest suggestion of sensible regulation lest it blow a big hole in their profits. In the meantime, we Europeans can only scratch our bemused and wiser heads and wonder how many more painful lessons will have to be endured before America's red-necked boys get their toys taken away from them.
But the gun-toting culture is only partially to blame because, in order to be truly lethal, it has to be combined with a reckless, inhuman cowboy capitalism with its injunction to the devil to take the hindmost and let the weak and frail die where they fall. In the land where the Dollar is King, the citizens are merely dispensable serfs providing nothing more than an opportunity cost to be measured on the bottom line against a cardboard cut-out target and a magazine full of dum-dum rounds. In America, breakfast is cheap but so is life.
For us on the safe side of the Atlantic, we can but give thanks for a more progressive political leadership that recognises these squalid dangers and defends us against their encroachment. Not so the average American who is left to twist in the pitiless wind while their elected officials busy themselves with the more lucrative task of propping up their nations corporate interests. When democracy can be trumped by chicanery, as in the Florida elections re-count, good faith lies bleeding. When you witness your own government flaunt the will of the international community, as expressed by Kyoto and the International Criminal Court, is it any wonder your dashed hopes and routed expectations may express themselves as murderous fury? If you hold democratic institutions up to contempt it is but a short step to holding life itself in contempt.
Pray that the Maryland police find this trigger-man quickly and let their be no more tragic victims. But pray also that the bereaved seek true justice by demanding that the murders of their loved ones be added to ever-growing list of crimes that must be laid at the door of George W. Bush"
Okay, this isn't really a BARF, just a parody of one I found...
To moan and groan in the line of anti-gun victimology PC claptrap is not just only silly liberal dementia in these days of war, it is reckless and deadly idle carelessness.
For safety, we must assume it is a terrorist act, and only when solid info indicates otherwise should we give up the presumption that it was a terrorist act.
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It wouldn't matter, for it's not what government allows, but what the Constitution prohibits infringement upon. And since it it a God-given right, it can never be rescinded by Man.
Despite the increasingly horrific death toll, this is a nation which still clings rabidly to the absurd and outdated notion of allowing private citizens to own firearms.
So, since governments with guns have killed far more people than citizens with guns ... should we then outlaw governments?
The founders of this country tried to come close to just that when they made the people themselves the government and then recognized that those peop[le must be armed to keep the government in check.
That's what all of these arguements are really about. Who will govern, and who will have the absolute power to govern. Those who have the guns really govern and the libs/socialists/marxists/gloabalists want that pwoer exclusively for themselves so they cna have absolute control.
All of these outher arguements are simply fluff to cover that one point.
Call it an exercise in speaking and thinking Guardianese. Remember that guy who painted his face in order to experience what it was like to be black? It is, in fact a parody of clear and level-headed thinking; but par for the course when it comes to the Guardian-style weltanschauung.
From CNNMANCHESTER, England -- A public inquiry has opened in Britain to look into the deaths of 466 hospital patients linked to mass murderer Doctor Harold Shipman.
The once respected family doctor, dubbed "Doctor Death" by the British media, was convicted in January last year of murdering 15 elderly female patients.
Prosecutors say he may have killed hundreds more during his 24 years as a general practitioner in Hyde near the northern city of Manchester
This issue was settled by Washington at Yorktown.
The Brits didn't like it then, and they don't like it now. But "them liking it" really isn't a requirement.
As long as we continue to have these shootings, we're going to be in a continual defensive propaganda war. Thus far, all I hear from anyone - and not just on this forum - is suggested defensive arguments and tactics. It particularly doesn't help our position to argue that this is "a price we pay for freedom". The friends and relatives of the murder victims in this latest disaster are hardly going to be in a state of mind where they're going to be ready to "pay" such a "price".
Somehow - and I don't have any ready answers for this - we've got to be able to root out these maniacs before they can start their depradations. This latest situation is particularly problematic, since while arming the general population is a good solution to most armed attacks, it is not really an effective defense against a determined sniper. We're just lucky that we haven't seen more "rooftop sniper" mass killings.
In most cases, the perp has given someone, somewhere, advance warnings of his intentions. Perhaps the pro-gun organizations need to band together and start offering huge rewards - in the millions of dollars - for "information leading to the apprehension", etc.
Most people like myself, who are Second Amendment absolutists, are not comfortable with anything which fosters a turn-in-your-neighbor, police state mentality. But the unresolved conflict between that attitude on our part and our inability to answer those whose friends and relatives have died in these shootings represents a major public relations problem for us. I personally think it is the most significant problem confronting the "Firearms Rights Community" (Hmm... now *there's* a phrase to make liberals choke...).
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