Left Screams In Rage 

As Right Brings Up 

Completely Valid Point 

That Most Mass Shooters 

Are Mentally Ill 

For some reason, many on the Left didn't like Wayne LaPierre or others bringing up the fact most of these mass shooters the past couple of years turn out to have serious mental illnesses.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wayne-lapierre-crazy-article-1.1226832

http://gawker.com/5970536/nra-spokesman-wayne-lapierres-insane-paranoia-is-more-mainstream-than-you-think

But in fact, from the highly publicized incidents that have happened the past few decades, it's ALREADY well known that most of these mass shooters were suffering from very real mental problems:

http://twitchy.com/2012/12/23/liberals-deny-link-between-mental-illness-and-mass-shootings/

[You know what kind of incidents involving guns AREN'T taken national by the MSM to promote a cause?  Incidents like this one: 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57562397-504083/georgia-mother-hides-children-shoots-intruder-5-times-during-home-invasion-police-say/

Only incidents where guns are MIS-used need apply for national attention from our media.]

Mother Jones published a report detailing on how over 1/2 the shooters in the 62 mass shootings they studied had demonstrated clear mental health issues before their fatal incidents:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/jared-loughner-mass-shootings-mental-illness

Nearly 80 percent of the perpetrators in these 62 cases obtained their weapons legally. Acute paranoia, delusions, and depression were rampant among them, with at least 36 of the killers committing suicide on or near the scene. (Seven others died in police shootouts they had little hope of surviving, regarded by some experts as "suicide by cop.") And according to additional research we completed recently, at least 38 of them displayed signs of possible mental health problems prior to the killings.

Since it IS far easier to blame inanimate objects as the 'cause' of the problem, and control objects rather than people, to some it makes much more sense just to ban/restrict access to guns than it does to actually try to control criminals or the mentally ill.

But then some commit the faux pas of asking if these bans actually WORK. Do they make people safer, do they prevent these kind of shootings? Does the gun crime rate go down in a city/state with strict gun control, or does it go up?

Chicago, which currently has a total gun ban in place and has just about the strictest gun control in the country, had more than 500 murders last year, over 80% of them with firearms.

It strains credulity to believe that passing a few more bans/gun restrictions will solve Chicago's violent gun crime problem. Yet this is exactly what some will propose as the problem gets worse and worse.

You have two issues here: criminals running around free using guns to commit their crimes and mentally ill people that can't be committed or many times even treated due to strict involuntary committal laws.

The fact the Left is extremely soft on criminals is no secret; they've spent decades compiling a record on that issue. Rather than tackle the source of the problem - the broken revolving door justice system that lets violent felons out to victimize others over and over - Liberals distract from their failure by attacking 'root causes' - poverty, racism, income inequality, and guns.

As dumb as this sounds, the Liberal agenda is to 'fix' society while going easy on individual criminals because it's not really their fault. They are victims, you see.

So they'll keep trying to make it easier for proven violent felons to mingle with the rest of us while also making it nigh impossible to commit the mentally ill, no matter how anti-social & disturbed they get. Because the real problem is an unjust society and all those Evil Guns out there.

Spending Problem?

WHAT Spending Problem?

What Is This 'Spending Problem'

Of Which You Speak?

Alternate Headline:  Obama & Friends Continue Their Stupidity Of Laughing Off Need For Spending Cuts By Insisting We're In This Fiscal Crisis Because We Haven't Been Taxing People Enough

Hey folks, now that the Fiscal Cliff deal is done, it's on to another exciting couple of months of negotiating on raising the debt ceiling again.  You know those guys up in Washington must enjoy this kind of thing because they had an ugly, protracted fight over raising the debt ceiling just last year.

Here's Barack Obama insisting to John Boehner that Washington doesn't have a spending problem, so could the wingnutz just stop this embarrassing call for spending cuts and just get with the program of raising taxes already? He's got HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in new spending he wants to do and all this stupid scaremongering just kinda gets in the way or something. 

Barack Obama: "We Don't Have A Spending Problem."

Sure, Barack. No spending problem here!  Why, that's just some kinda wingnut invention  there to scare people.  

Insane spending like this is going to end one way or the other.  We can't continue on our present course, so the only question is how bad the fiscal fallout is when the bottom finally drops out. 

Here's Mitch McConnell reminding George Stephanphoulowhatsis that we didn't end up with a 16 trillion + debt because taxes weren't high enough: 

WAIT, WHY IS MY PAYCHECK LESS THIS WEEK? I DON'T MAKE OVER $250,000!

It's been hilarious watching the Left trying to palm off responsibility for tax increases on about 80% of Americans from the sunsetting of some of the Bush tax rate cuts onto Republicans who were fighting for the past couple of months to extend all of them.

This is how #LIBLOGIC works: you fight for months for keeping all the Bush tax cuts against a President who's determined to raise taxes.  He holds the line and will not do a deal until you agree to massive tax increases on 80% of the country.  The Democrats & their propaganda friends in the mainstream media makes it look like your ONLY fighting to avoid tax increases on the SUPER-DUPER RICH.    You finally give in to get a deal done and give him the massive tax increases he wants - and suddenly HIS sunsetting of some of the Bush tax rates cuts becomes YOUR fault.  He can't be blamed at all because.....he's The One or something.

Let's remember it's Obama & the Democrats in Congress that insisted that the Bush tax cuts have expiration dates to begin with.

In case you missed it, there was a hilarious thread at Democratic Underground in which a poster wanted to know why their paycheck was more than $80 less: 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/

http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2013/01/06/desperate-duer-self-deletion-after-rush-reveals-tax-complaint-post

I was reading that thread before the original poster deleted their post and the thread was locked.  It was absolutely hysterical watching the other DUmmies trying to convince NCTraveler this was a great thing - hey look, we're not shortchanging the Social Security Fund anymore!  Their taking more money out of your paycheck just means it's there for you when you need it!

Uh, no.  There is no $ in the Social Security fund.  It's all been spent already.  We're borrowing over $1 trillion a year just to keep the government solvent and people still think there's this 'Social Security lockbox' sitting around somewhere with trillions of bucks in it?  Just waiting for you when you retire? Really?

Newsflash: The politicians in Washington raided the SS fund long ago.  The only thing in that 'lockbox' right now is an IOU.  All that SS withholding you've paid for the past couple of decades was spent by Washington politicians just as fast as it came in.  SS is now one giant legal Ponzi scheme.  All the present workers paying into the system are now having most of that money turned around and given out immediately to support the retired elderly who's funds have already been spent. 

So now stupid DUmmies are trying to console themselves over their smaller paychecks by repeating a lie that all this extra withholding just means Barack & Co. are looking out for them, making sure the SS fund isn't underfunded.  

As if all this new revenue coming in because of the increase won't be spent just as fast as those clowns up there in Washington can get their hands on it.  

Newsflash To The Clueless:

The Origin Of Your Rights 

Is NOT The 

F**king Government

Like C.S. Lewis Often Said: What The Hell ARE They Teaching In Schools These Days?

It's a rant, see. So you gotta start at the bottom and read your way back up to the top, see?

Just How Insane Has 

England Gotten With

It's Gun Ban?

So Insane It's Sentenced 

People To PrisonFor Stumbling 

Over Illegal Guns

That They Turned In 

To The Police

Yes. Really.  

England's Handgun Crime Doubles A Decade After Handgun Ban

Not only did England's handgun crime double, the exact OPPOSITE of the intended result of the ban, they are now to the point they are throwing honest people into prison for turning in guns they found:

Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens who have come into the possession of a firearm, even accidentally, have been harshly treated. In 2009 a former soldier, Paul Clarke, found a bag in his garden containing a shotgun. He brought it to the police station and was immediately handcuffed and charged with possession of the gun. At his trial the judge noted: "In law there is no dispute that Mr. Clarke has no defence to this charge. The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant." Mr. Clarke was sentenced to five years in prison. A public outcry eventually won his release.

In November of this year, Danny Nightingale, member of a British special forces unit in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to 18 months in military prison for possession of a pistol and ammunition. Sgt. Nightingale was given the Glock pistol as a gift by Iraqi forces he had been training. It was packed up with his possessions and returned to him by colleagues in Iraq after he left the country to organize a funeral for two close friends killed in action. Mr. Nightingale pleaded guilty to avoid a five-year sentence and was in prison until an appeal and public outcry freed him on Nov. 29.

The system has gone so insane there that it took a huge public outcry to redress these two injustices visited upon these honest citizens.  The insane quote from the judge in the Clarke case sends a shiver down my spine.  Just possessing the gun, however you got it, makes you a criminal.  So off to prison with you! 

Does anybody in England need to seriously spend 3 seconds considering whether or not to turn in a gun they stumbled over after the Clarke case was made public?  

Only Liberal bureaucrats can construct & defend a system that can't tell between criminals and honest citizens any more.  

Also note this little factoid from the article: 

In 1987, Michael Ryan went on a shooting spree in his small town of Hungerford, England, killing 16 people (including his mother) and wounding another 14 before shooting himself. Since the public was unarmed—as were the police—Ryan wandered the streets for eight hours with two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun before anyone with a firearm was able to come to the rescue.

Wayne LaPierre at his press conference earlier this week was exactly correct:  unless/until your bad guy going around shooting people decides to kill himself, the only thing that'll stop him is a good guy with a gun.  And England's gun control was so strict when this massacre occured in 1987, that it took EIGHT LONG HOURS for that good guy with a gun to show up.  

All you gun control zealots pay attention: America WILL NEVER have that problem.  It will NEVER take 8 hours to get a good gun on the scene to deal with a situation like this.  

And note the biggest takeaway from the article: they banned handguns and a decade after the ban handgun crime is double what it was before the ban by the Gov't's own admission.  

America Does Not Have A 

Gun Control Problem.

It Has A CRIMINAL & 

CRAZY PERSON

Control Problem

Here's Newark mayor Cory Booker asking some good questions and making some excellent points on a Sunday talk show where he deviates from the 'blame the guns' mantra so many others are chanting: 

Booker is correct. It’s not really a GUN control problem, it’s a CRIMINAL control problem.

Chicago had 190+ shootings in a month. The authorities there know if they arrested, tried and locked up about 100 particular gang members – all of whom have been arrested for violent crimes with weapons before, many MULTIPLE TIMES – the shooting rate in that city would plummet.

BUT THEY’LL NEVER DO THAT. Specifically TARGETING gang members is racist, and liberal cities will NEVER do it. So they will continue the insane revolving-door policies that put violent criminals back on the street fast.

LIBERALS BUILT THIS BROKEN JUSTICE SYSTEM. But they don’t want any BLAME for the results of that system being broken. So they have become masters of scape-goating by constantly bringing up the GUN when some crook or crazy person they failed to lock up kills people.

They CAN’T allow the discussion to be about their broken system. They defend that system. They built it. They own it. It’a a compassionate system. IT’S THE BEST SYSTEM. So they can’t let you wingnutz criticize it for putting some violent criminal out there to commit further violent crimes.

What better way to keep the subject off THEIR failures than by insisting the discussion focus on that wingut fixation: GUNS. How dare you! How dare you still stand up for the 2nd Amendment after some crook they let walk kills more people!

They craftily and artfully get away with doing this every single time. The bureaucrats that created the broken justice system and the MSM deliberately seek to make the national conversation about something that reflects badly on the RIGHT, not the Left. And that means the national conversation MUST be about guns, not a broken system that THEY  created that repeatedly lets criminals or crazies back  out onto the street to victimize the rest of us.

Here’s a real life example of a broken justice system: I lived in the Virgin Islands for 7 years. One of my friends there had a relative who was a cop that was killed in a shooting this year.

us-virgin-island-officer-dies-four-months-after-shooting

St. Thomas, USVI Police Officer Colvin George

Officer Colvin George died in a Miami, Fla., hospital Saturday morning from injuries sustained in a May by a suspect who was killed in the shoot out, according to the local newspaper The St. Croix Source.

Georges and fellow officer Aaron Hodge both came under fire at a car wash on St. Thomas where a fatal shooting had occurred just before the May 26 attack that injured the two officers, according to the paper. Hodge was released a few days after the incident while Georges was gravely injured, paralyzed from the neck down and airlifted to Florida after the shooting.

The reported shooter in the incident had been arrested in April with crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana all packaged for sale. The suspect also had a handgun.

The officer, Colvin George, was shot by a criminal who had just been arrested the previous month with drugs and a handgun. In April this crook was caught with a weapon. In May he shot Colvin Georges and another officer.

What kind of a system lets a dangerous drug dealer walk in less than a month?

And note this: the handgun the guy was caught with in April WASN’T the same one he had in May. He simply went out and got himself ANOTHER gun.

That’s what they are doing in places like Chicago. They catch these guys with guns, take the guns away, let them go after a brief time, and the first thing these guys do is go get themselves another gun.

I can’t help but wonder how many times in places like Chicago or the USVI has the SAME CRIMINAL had multiple GUNS taken off of him at various arrests?

Rather than examine what THEY are doing that is not working, the Liberal bureaucrats look for a SCAPEGOAT to relentlessly ATTACK to keep attention OFF of their failures.

And up until now, they've been getting away with it!  WHY does this clever – and insidious – strategy ALWAYS seem to work? 

At least some people on the Left like Cory Booker are finally starting to wake up and ask the right questions.  

Barack Obama:

The Most ENDANGERED

Man In All Of America

If the presence of guns make you less safe, Obama is really in a lot of danger, isn't he?  I mean really, someone should disarm the Secret Service pronto before one of them suddenly gets bewitched by his evil gun and blows our President away.  

Time For The Left To 

Finally Come Up

With An Official

'Are YOU Black Enough?'

Questionnaire

They could then have one of their elite guys quickly give the test to any black person that rises to national prominence.  That way they could just dispense with embarrassing public displays like this, in which ESPN's Rob Parker wonders out loud if Robert Griffen III is 'black enough':

http://www.sbnation.com/2012/12/13/3763450/espn-rob-parker-rg3-race

Now, being one of those supposedly virulently racist Conservatives and all,

 I'm probably not the best guy to opine on the subject of who's 'black enough', 

but this damn good QB looks purty black to me.

Parker: "My question, which is just a straight, honest question: is he a brother or is he a cornball brother?" 

Cari Champion: "What does that mean? 

Parker: "He's not really ... OK, he's black, he kinda does the thing, but he's not really down with the cause, he's not one of us. He's kinda black, but he's not really, like, the guy you really wanna hang out with because he's off to something else." 

Champion: "Why is that your question?" 

Parker: "Because that's just how I want to find out about him. I don't know because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée then there was all this talk about he was a Republican. There's no information at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, "I got black skin but don't call me black.'"

Rob Parker was just trying to helpfully remind his fellow Libs they can't let the nation embrace RG3 yet; they still haven't vetted his politics.

Hey Griffen is from Texas.  He could be one of those darn inauthentically black Republicans.  So guys like Rob Parker and Toure on MSNBC want to 'check' Griffen out and make sure he holds all the correct political views before they give him the official "Baby, You Are Black Enough!' stamp of approval.  

I mean, God forbid a black guy who misses a few questions on the the politically correct "Accepted Political Beliefs of The Official National Black Famous People" checklist becomes a national superstar before the elites have thoroughly vetted his politics.  

As Stacy Dash found out awhile back, All Nationally Famous Black People are supposed to be on board with a single monolithic political view.  And if they are not..........SERIOUS QUESTIONS WILL BE RAISED ABOUT THEM. 

This kind of stupid identity politics refuses to die, where arrogant Liberals assume they KNOW what a person's political beliefs SHOULD be the moment they discern the skin color, the gender, and the class.  And if they find out the person has the 'wrong' political beliefs for their skin, gender or class, then it's time to ask what's 'wrong' with them, why they are race/gender/class traitors, etc. etc.  

If RG3 is a Republican, and he doesn't hold all the 'correct' beliefs Liberals think a black American 'should', there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with HIM.  There is, however, PLENTY wrong with those who keep displaying the kind of stupid crap we're seeing here from Rob Parker. 

UPDATE:  Allahpundit at Hot Air sums up pretty good why Rob Parker is in trouble; not for playing identity politics per se; that goes on ALL THE TIME.  He's in hot water for PICKING THE WRONG TARGET: 

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/13/hot-topic-on-espn-today-is-rg-iii-a-cornball-brother-who-votes-republican/

You know what’s interesting about this clip? This guy’s going to catch hell for what he said, not because his test of racial authenticity is so cartoonish and clammy (which it is) but because he picked the wrong guy to demagogue. 

If you want to call a minority conservative an Uncle Tom, make sure it’s someone for whom the left has no use, like Clarence Thomas or Allen West. The right will be angry if you do, but no worries — most Americans will never hear about it, or if they do, the usual outrage over racial stereotyping will be absent from the press coverage.  

Instead this dummy picked on the savior of Washington football, the most exciting thing to happen to ‘Skins fans, left and right, in decades. There are few ways that a “cornball brother” can earn absolution from the Authenticity P.D. but winning the Super Bowl is one. And the irony is, I’m not even sure that RGIII actually is a Republican. I’ve seen that rumor floated but never any quote from the man himself; if I’m wrong, send me the link and I’ll update.  

We’ll know soon, though: Now that Parker’s raised the specter of racial impurity, the pressure will be on Griffin to admit that, yes indeed, he’s one of the enlightened who voted Democratic last month.