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According to the Rude Pundit...
The Mentally ILL Hold Hearings on Gun ControlPosted on January 31, 2013by leutisha
From where I sit, when you have victims of gun violence before you (one of them a former sitting member of Congress, who owned guns herself), including the parents of those innocent children massacred in Newtown, CT, imploring you and your fellow Congressional Critters to pass comprehensive gun control legislation, and your response to that testimony is that the guvmint will pry your gun from your “cold, dead hands”, you have no right to hold hearings on the issue because, according to the Rude Pundit, you are MENTALLY ILL. You are basically telling these suffering families to go “Cheney” themselves, because dammit, you’re going to do what needs to be done to ensure that irresponsible morons can keep their guns.
His Rudeness broke it down (Warning – if you can’t stand indelicate language, the Rude Pundit’s blog is not for YOU):
If you wanted to make a case for mental illness as a primary cause of gun violence, you could pretty much get all the evidence you wanted from yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on possible solutions to the mass shooting epidemic in the U.S. There were so many episodes of batshit paranoia and outright delusion from the anti-gun law speakers that diagnosed schizophrenics bowed their heads in honor. Honestly, if at some point the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre had started scrawling a manifesto in his own shit on the walls of the hearing room, the Rude Pundit would have thought, “Well, that was not unexpected.”
Let’s just lay out the argument quickly. On one side, you have people who want to close a loophole in background checks on gun buyers and who want to ban some semiautomatic weapons and all high-volume magazines, all while making sure that law-abiding citizens and legal immigrants can purchase most every other kind of rifle and handgun, under the idea that some safeguards and minor limitations are not unreasonable. On the other side, you have “I dare you p*ssies to try to pry my right to buy a dozen AR-15s from my cold, dead hands, motherf*uckers.” So you can see how we might be at loggerheads here.
His Rudeness broke it down (Warning – if you can’t stand indelicate language, the Rude Pundit’s blog is not for YOU):
If you wanted to make a case for mental illness as a primary cause of gun violence, you could pretty much get all the evidence you wanted from yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on possible solutions to the mass shooting epidemic in the U.S. There were so many episodes of batshit paranoia and outright delusion from the anti-gun law speakers that diagnosed schizophrenics bowed their heads in honor. Honestly, if at some point the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre had started scrawling a manifesto in his own shit on the walls of the hearing room, the Rude Pundit would have thought, “Well, that was not unexpected.”
Let’s just lay out the argument quickly. On one side, you have people who want to close a loophole in background checks on gun buyers and who want to ban some semiautomatic weapons and all high-volume magazines, all while making sure that law-abiding citizens and legal immigrants can purchase most every other kind of rifle and handgun, under the idea that some safeguards and minor limitations are not unreasonable. On the other side, you have “I dare you p*ssies to try to pry my right to buy a dozen AR-15s from my cold, dead hands, motherf*uckers.” So you can see how we might be at loggerheads here.
http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/01/31/the-mentally-ill-hold-hearings-on-gun-control/