Don't Blame The Shovel

Every year, around 32,000 people are killed in car crashes in the USA. Nobody tries to ban cars, even though someone was driving them when someone died. Cars are dangerous. It is understood that the driver is responsible for the accident.

So why isn't that true for firearms? The firearm, like a car, is a tool. Its like a broom or a shovel. It does a specific job. When a crazy person picks up a kitchen knife in China and stabs a kindergarten classroom, nobody is blaming the knife manufacturer or insisting kitchen knives should be banned. It is understood these are the actions of a crazy person, that the crazy person is responsible. The recent school shooting in Connecticut, and the Mall shooting in Clackamas (Portland), Oregon, and the other holiday insanity murder sprees... these are actions of crazy people. Blaming the gun that made killing all those people easier... If there was no gun, they'd have used knives, and still killed a bunch of children. The cases in China proved that. It was the act of a crazy person. None of these lunatics had the rights to own firearms anyway. They were known crazy. The guns were stolen.

The politicians trying to ban firearms, again, are just trying to hurt their Republican opposition since the NRA is largely a conservative and Republican organization. Its the elitism and citified hatred of Country Folk that the Liberals keep forcing down our throats. And that's more than a little unfair. The NRA has its faults, but its primary purpose is to protect the rights of Americans to keep and bear Arms for both self defense and hunting, which are national rights earned by my ancestors during the Revolutionary War.

It is ridiculous to blame the shovel for the hole, and to blame the gun for the deaths. If you do, you're blaming the car for the crash, and the dress for the rape. Its all about hypocrisy isn't it? Finger pointing. This is "Blame Canada" all over again.

Which was really the point all along. The Liberals see a tragedy of some insane person murdering helpless children and immediately EXPLOIT IT to hurt their opposition, contrary to logic or morality. This is exactly why conservatives HATE liberals right back. This is a huge, unsolvable gulf. I fear that someday, the gulf will turn to open warfare. I really hope it doesn't, but Chile put people in ditches over these sorts of differences. Are we really that much better, morally and ethically, to not take that step ourselves? Perhaps when we're defunding Medicare so the elderly die of pneumonia in chilly rest homes, we won't feel responsible. After all, we won't be shooting them because guns will long since have been banned. Just like cars and shovels and kitchen knives. After all, its the tool's fault that people using them are nuts.