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If you go to Wikipedia and look up the diagnosis of the word Psychosis,  it reads as follows:

“Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή “psyche”, for mind/soul, and -ωσις “-osis”, for abnormal condition) means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a “loss of contact with reality”

After reading a recent  New York Times  editorial about  Congressman Gifford’s retirement from Congress,  ( 1 )   I see too much  evidence indicating that the staff who authored the editorial  have indeed  lost all contact with reality.

Let me quote them:   “ Left unstated amid the lawmakers’ celebration of Ms. Giffords’s survival was the abject failure of Congress and President Obama to repair the porous gun control laws that helped enable a mentally disturbed gunman to shoot and kill six and wound Ms. Giffords and 12 others in a matter of seconds last January.  ”

Several things stand out in just this one paragraph.   First, the phrase ” … to repair the porous gun control laws… “.   Implicit in this statement is the assumption that at sometime in the past, gun control laws in the US were more strict  than they are now,  but have been neglected and are now in a state of disarray.

Excuse me?  Since the rise of FDR and the establishment of the Federal  gun-control culture,   each passing decade has witnessed a steady INCREASE in the number of firearm laws and their intrusiveness.    Have they forgotten that as recently as 1967 one could buy a gun through the mail?  Not any more.   Have they forgotten that in the past it was very common for public schools to have shooting clubs on campus and now many states have laws that forbid a firearm within a thousand yards of a school?  Have they forgotten that Americans used to be able to buy just about any gun they wanted and now they are banned from doing so?   Have they missed the many examples of law abiding citizens arrested on firearms charges for weapons they were already  LICENSED to carry?  And more to the point,  have they missed the much heralded  Lautenberg Amendment to Federal Law that has  deprived  hundreds of thousands of people their Second Amendment rights because of the wild accusations made during a  messy divorce .

To suggest that gun control laws have been getting less strict flies in the face of reality.  It is patently absurd.  Granted, many jurisdictions have been forced to recognize the basic Second Amendment right to keep and bear a firearm.    But these jurisdictions are not experiencing  ”wild west ” shootouts.    Just the opposite,  it is in those jurisdictions with the most restrictive rules that we are seeing the greatest violence.

Which leads me to my second observation:   This statement also implies that gun control laws have ever worked as advertised.    Let us consider the case of Great Britain…….  the shining example of  a nation whose citizen/serfs have been shackled with gun control laws.

A scant  3 weeks BEFORE  this editorial was printed,  a man in Great Britain,  shot and killed four people including himself using a common shotgun and common hunting rifle.  And it only took a few seconds.   All of the weapons were licensed.  None of them were machine guns or “assault rifles “. And the man himself was widely regarded as a  quiet and “nice man” who often donated the animals he hunted to friends for food.   (2)

All of the gun control laws most heralded by the New York Times Editorial Board were in place when this happened.   And it did not make a damn bit of difference.

Let me also note the phrase ,  ”  … porous gun control laws that helped enable a mentally disturbed gunman to shoot and kill..”     One has to wonder how the law would define mentally disturbed?  Would this include anyone ” feeling blue “?   Would it include someone going through some kind of financial stress?  Marital stress?  How about some jilted lover?   Would this new law that every person who wanted to purchase a firearm go through an FBI background check and psychological evaluation?  Would anyone who had ever had a bout of depression ,  even for a brief period of time,  be banned from buying a firearm?    And exactly what law would they implement to ensure that someone did not have a change  in mental health?   Would all gun owners be forced to undergo constant psychological evaluation?

These are not absurd questions to ask.

If someone has lost a connection to reality on one point,   can you trust them to be reasonable on any other?

If the New York Times  editorial board is anything,  it is psychotic…….  and their delusion is so entrenched,  one should be concerned about the safety of all us around them.   Who knows what might make them fly off  the handle.   And if they refuse to recognize the irrationality of their paranoid need for more gun control,   I would suggest they not complain too much if the rest of us first demand each of them undergo psychiatric screening immediately…. and regularly….   for the safety of society at large.   We have a right to feel safe too.

This assumes of course that the Editorial Board is being honest about their stated justification for wanting to disarm  the American people.   Now if I am wrong,  and  their real desire has a more totalitarian foundation,  I would suggest a much more  stringent and permanent cure is indicated.

(1 ) Gabby Giffords’s Farewell

New York Times Editorial Page A26 January 27, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/rep-gabby-giffordss-farewell.html?_r=2

( 2 )   Gun laws in spotlight as man kills family with licensed arms

By Jonathan Brown The Independent.com Tuesday, 3 January 2012

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gun-laws-in-spotlight-as-man-kills-family-with-licensed-        arms-6284204.html#

Tags: Gun Control, new york times

We have all heard of shotgun weddings that were once popular in the southern states.  Sometimes a guy needed some persuasion to marry his partner and a loaded shotgun carried by the bride-to-be’s father could greatly influence his decision of whether to stay single or not.

Unfortunately, this was not the case in a Goose Creek, South Carolina church.  A man walked into the St. James United Methodist Church and pointed his shotgun at the choir.  Instead of preachin’ to the choir, he robbed them.

There was no mention of the method of carry the man used (Ready, Cradle, Side, Sling or Shoulder) when he entered the church.  Even robbers should safely handle firearms.

Are you safer than a robber?  If you think so, answer this question: What method of carry is missing from the above list?  Click here to find the answer.

In the 1959 comedy movie Operation Petticoat,   Cary Grant played the part of a submarine commander who was forced to turn his vessel into a transport for buxom nurses right in the middle of a war zone.

In his crew was an officer played by Tony Curtis.  This officer was not a war fighter.  In fact,  he was a pretty boy  climbing the social ladder through connections with high ranking members of the  Navy.   Needless to say,  the submarine commander had little use  or respect for this dandy who had been foisted upon him by events.     Continue Reading »

A woman with valid CCW in Tennessee asked police officers at the WTC Memorial in NYC where she could check her pistol.  She saw the “No Guns” sign and assumed there was a place to check her weapon like in her home state.

She was told she was lucky because of “law enforcement day”, which was some wise-ass cop’s reply to her legitimate request.  She was led into another area where she again asked where she could check her weapon.

Meredith Graves was arrested, cuffed and thrown into jail for being a law-abiding citizen of the United States and voluntarily offering to check her concealed weapon.  Unfortunately, she was breaking NYC laws on handguns.  It looks like she spent six days in one of Mayor Bloomberg’s guest rooms before she and her husband could raise the $2,000 to release her. Continue Reading »

Tags: New York, New York City, NYC

In the Navy we officers were told  that  good judgement was an important measurement of our abilities.    And good judgement was defined as a sense of  ”balance and proportion”.      So the idea of  steaming full speed ahead in the harbor so you could impress the locals with the ” skid-turn docking maneuver ” was generally not well received.    ( As was slipping a whoopee cushion on to the Captain’s Bridge Chair  I might add .)

With good judgement being of such high value in the Navy,  those most strong in that area  were the ones that often advanced to the Captaincy.     For the sake of the ship and crew…..no one was going to be allowed to make decisions about others unless they had consistently demonstrated a strong sense of  balance and proportion.

Unfortunately,  the rules regarding  good judgement  are not often forced upon those who legislate in the civilian world.   This is especially true where gun control is concerned.

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California is well known for it’s coddling of criminals and forcing its residents into vulnerable positions.  Sheriff Chuck Wright of Spartanburg County, South Carolina is fed up with criminals continually being released to commit more crimes.

Walter Lance was the last act that caused Sheriff Wright to call a news conference.  According to police investigators, long-time criminal Walter Monroe Lance attacked a woman walking her dog in a park around two o’clock in the afternoon.  He choked her and made her strip naked.

After this he tried to rape her.  He was caught and is presently in jail.

Sheriff Wright did the right thing and called a press conference and let loose a volley of statements about this crime and the “animal” behind it.

• “I can tell you that our form of justice is not makin’ it.” Continue Reading »

Tags: Sheriff Chuck Wright, South Carolina, Spartanburg County

Please do not try what Dan Keith Hindenach did while hunting.  He set up a tree stand and perched himself to await some deer.

This was not a problem.  What he did not do and what he did ended his hunting trip and also his life.

His first mistake was not using a restraint system when he was high up in the stand.  Continue Reading »

Tags: alcohol, drugs, hunting harnesses, tree stands

It is shocking…… truly shocking.

And wholly unexpected.  I just don’t understand how to explain it.

We pass a bunch of laws and some people in this country just don’t seem to want to play along !

I am referring specifically to the laws recently passed that make it illegal to have a gun within 1,000 feet of a school.

The legislators and goofballs in the gun control community who proposed these laws, sold them on the grounds that if we just had another law,  the criminals would finally obey and we would never see a school shooting again. Continue Reading »

When I was a kid,  mom had a favorite saying;   ” Monkey see…. monkey do”.

What she meant was that kids tend to mimic the behavior they see.   And they do so because they just don’t have the good common sense to do otherwise.    Kids are gullible and easily lead.  They do stupid things because, they just don’t know any better.

Now what mom said was true.   But I never expected to see the day where police officers would be a proof text for mom’s saying.   Then the Seattle Police Department  stepped up to the plate.

I hope that everyone is very well aware of our marginally presidential Commander in Chief and his BATFE’s project Fast and Furious. Continue Reading »

We are told that the social revolutions of the 1960′s were all about freedom and love.   That the social and political order was repressive.  And in the words of Jane Fonda,   that the solution was to ” tear society down”. And in it’s place,  the 60′s generation was to give us a new world…. a new Liberal world.  A worldview built on catch-phrases like ” victimless crimes “,  ” minority rights “,  ” diversity ” ,  ” tolerance ”  and  ” a woman’s right to choose “.

And now, after a half  century of repeatedly regurgitating those fluffy platitudes to justify their actions,  what can we say about the world that our Liberal revolutionaries have wrought?   What fruit has that mindset brought to bear?  What has been the end result of this great age of indulgence?     Continue Reading »

Tags: Gun Control, liberalism