Look even the 2nd in charge of the NRA has had rage play a part in his life supporting guns.  BTW, it is very rare that a legally carried gun is used to stop a crime.

Do you ever notice how the least bizarre people you meet are constantly questioning their sanity? You know the kind I mean, the ones who live wholly and safely within the confines of accepted social behavior but will offer up on a weekly basis some variation of the following:

"Am I crazy?"

"Don't mind me, I'm nuts!"

"You must think I'm out of my mind."

You never do, of course, but that doesn't stop them from regularly trying to get you to co-sign the notion that they are all kinds of wacky.

The other side of this faux-nuts syndrome are the sociopaths scarily certain they are the sanest people on the planet. Hitler is the most infamous example -- I'm fairly certain he never once nudged Josef Goebbels at a dinner party to ask: "Do you think I'm weird? Cause sometimes I think I'm really sick in the head." If you ever wonder about yourself, be reassured. The fact that you even ask is pretty much proof that you are definitely still part of the reality-based community.

I know of what I speak. I was crazy once and didn't know it. I was high on crystal meth for about a decade, sold drugs and got arrested and forged my death certificate and got arrested again and went to prison. It was the spookiest kind of crazy because -- until the shit hit the fan at the end -- I could "pass" for sane. My doctor didn't know, my family didn't know, my landlord didn't know; unlike most addicts, my bathroom was clean, my laundry was done, my refrigerator was full. Worst of all was how I convinced myself my life was entirely manageable. The truth is, you can't tell that the bullet train you're on is speeding 300 mph on the wrong track until you derail.

I thought Wayne LaPierre was the apex of gun-nuttery until The New York Times profiled the other head honcho of the NRA, David Keene. (He's the scowling white-haired man who introduced LaPierre when he proposed putting an armed officer in every school in America. ) Midway through the article came this jaw-dropping bit of information:

"Mr. Keene joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in 2008 in a prisoners' rights campaign. He had a personal motivation: his son had been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for firing a gun at another motorist in a road-rage episode."

One can assume that The New York Times triple-checked this particular fact due to its obviously sensitive nature. Here is a gun-lobbyist who had it revealed to him in excruciating fashion that firearms carried in supposed self-defense are almost never used to such an end; that in fact a moment of impulsive anger can devastate an entire family for years when a gun is involved, even if no one is physically injured.

What did David Keene do? Faced with his road-to-Damascus moment, he doubled down on the very life's work that had just proven to be based on a bald-faced lie. That's crazy and tragic. The famous NRA bumper-sticker reads: "Guns don't kill people; people kill people." Well, guns don't go to prison, either.

Wayne LaPierre accused the mainstream media of dismissing him as crazy. He's only half-right. There's nothing about NRA-crazy we dare dismiss. It's a deep crazy. It is the craziness of millions of gun-owners who have convinced themselves -- with complete sincerity -- that wielding an instrument of mayhem is spiritually elevated rather than spiritually bankrupt. It's the craziness of confusing the Second Amendment with the Lord's Prayer. It's the craziness which tells you the symptoms of your disease are its cure.

Sadly, I have no sure formula for treating the American addiction to violence manifested so completely by the true-believing base of the NRA. But I refuse to go along with the politically correct reaction so prevalent on both sides of the aisle that defends the right to bear arms as some some kind of morally-neutral lifestyle choice. It's not. An intense attachment to guns is pathological, and that's what we need to call it, once and for all, with no apology or qualification.

GSD
     Thank you for sharing you strength, experience, and hope. I am glad you are doing well.

Gsdadmin, I don't know anything about you're racist pics/comment, and you are appearing to be narrow minded, not addressing the ramifications of putting gruesome pics on public display.

FWIw, I never said I'm in favor of the general public having assault weapons; you just assume that. BTW, you ever hear of desensitization ?

GSD posted,

BTW, it is very rare that a legally carried gun is used to stop a crime.


That is probably the biggest misconception that has been posted in all this back and forth banter about guns.

I already posted information earlier that clearly stated that over ONE MILLION violent attempted crimes were either stopped or broken up a YEAR by legal law abiding gun owners.

Also in one of the past school shooting a teacher went to his vehicle, retrived a weapon and broke up the shooting before others were harmed.

Maybe you should be asking why the Main Stream Media refused to mention this.
 

How many accidents, killings and maimings in a year?

No, Ninja the biggest misconception is trying to tie this into the Holocaust.

Joanro,

Emmett Till's picture was very shocking for the times but it helped to change a nation.

The real cause?

Tea Party Nation Attacks Teachers over CT School Shooting

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 12/17/2012 10:50 am

Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips sent out an email to members yesterday featuring an article by TPN member Timothy Birdnow attacking teachers over the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. He said that parents must “take away the power of the radicals in the classrooms” and lawmakers must introduce right to work laws to cripple teachers’ unions. He says liberals “destroyed the family” and encouraged the shooter to be “coddled all his life, given free rein to indulge his senses but not to face the responsibilities that freedom necessitates… He lived in a world of the Progressives making, not in reality.” Birdnow even suggests that President Obama will use the shooting to “to advance the cause of disarming the American People” and argue that people like George Zimmerman (!) should be guarding schools.

It appears no tragedy, no matter how horrendous, is to be allowed to “go to waste” as Rahm Emmanuel would say. And, given the hundreds of dead Mexican citizens as a direct result of one such anti-gun scheme (known as Fast and Furious) one wonders if Misters Obama and Holder are really that broken up by the carnage; it will do more to advance the cause of disarming the American People than any number of drug cartel murders using American government supplied weaponry.

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1. Homeschool. Take away the power of the radicals in the classrooms. Makes your kids safer, too.

2.Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector. Teacher’s unions have helped cement much of this in place. As long as we have group think in the classrooms we will never see the end of this.

3.Engage in more frank discussion of race and culture. For far too long we have tiptoed around these issues, fearful of being branded a racist. If black thugs kidnap and rape a woman, ask if there is something in the black culture that fostered that. If an evil white kid murders a bunch of children at the school, ask the same question of the white community. What was it that spawned this behavior? What was this kid taught? We have to stop hiding from our respective national sins.

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6.Work to devolve power back to the parents, the local officials, and the communities. A society that is top-down will inevitably lead to alienation of the sort we have seen here. This young man was twenty years old, and his actions were neither spurious nor random. As an FBI profiler said on television last night, he undoubtedly felt powerless and sought to remedy that. Why does a twenty year old feel powerless? He could leave his mother’s home at any time at his age. He feels powerless because he has lived in an over-bureaucratized society, one run ultimately from a far-away central location. He sees his life as at the mercy of others, and sees himself as having no real input or control. He has been coddled all his life, given free rein to indulge his senses but not to face the responsibilities that freedom necessitates. He was an eternal juvenile, a child who was not allowed to grow up. He lived in a world of the Progressives making, not in reality.

The family is the fundamental building block of civilization, and from it all power originates. The Left has systematically destroyed the family for the purpose of empowering the State, and this has destroyed so many lives. Individuals - especially immature individuals - need to be taught how to live, how to think, how to believe. Man’s animal passions must be placed in check and his rational faculties engaged. His moral compass must be set. Liberalism sought to destroy all the controls by destroying the family and community, centralizing power in meta institutions and granting the individual absolute moral autonomy without giving him the wisdom he needs to exercise it. . It is a recipe for disaster, as we have seen.

7.Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. There is a reason why young people commit these sorts of crimes, and sex plays no small part. Their passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands. People have understood the close relationship between sex and violence through history; sex was an inducement to military service in ancient times (and modern, too) and it has traditionally been understood that a sexually robust individual will fight harder and more aggressively. We are engaging half this equation, overstimulating our youth while denying them a planned outlet. Even if they were to live promiscuously (a very bad thing for society) they still cannot find adequate outlets for their passions, which have grown to titanic volume. Fighting is the traditional outlet. Societies have always carefully planned ways to release this tension constructively - through physical labor, through hunting, through military service, sometimes even through intellectual pursuits. Now we have nothing, no place for this pent-up frustration to go. The only answer is to follow the other societal coping mechanism, which is to tone down the sexual stimulation, encourage chastity and modesty. Our society has conveniently thrown that away as well. We have to restore it.

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9.Support the creation of local organizations to act as “neighborhood watch” for schools. Had George Zimmerman been at the front door instead of some mechanical card reader those children would still be alive. Perhaps it’s time we start asking for volunteers to protect our children. It will require security checks, but isn’t that worth it? This dovetails with the union problem; the unions will fight this measure tooth-and-nail.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-attacks-teachers-over-ct-school-shooting

 

Yeah it has to be the teachers and unions fault. That is it.