No Bebop

Here’s the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about the dickweed that barricaded himself in a house with guns and a bulletproof vest, and when the cops came killed three of them and injured one. Why? He was despondent over losing his job and he also thought he was going to lose all his freedoms, particularly the right to bear arms, because the current president of the United States is one Barack H. Obama.

A lot of us know what it feels like to lose a job, and depression is one of many reactions to it. As to the “Obama’s gonna take our guns” thing, I’d like to see some representative of the right wing who thinks it’s cool to bandy around such nonsense step up and take responsibility for fueling that false story, thereby increasing despair in their already depressed and ill-informed readers and listeners. As I mentioned in a previous post, hardly any Democrats, let alone Obama, are willing to talk about reasonable gun control, never mind do anything about it. UPDATE: Add the NRA as a willing perpetrator of this stupid meme.

You’ve probably seen all the stories about how people are “stocking up” on guns in the wake of the Obama election. It’s true, of course, and the reason it’s true is that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the right wing in America. (Still waiting for Ann Coulter to apologize for promoting the idea that Obama ordered Chrysler and GM to stop spending money to race in NASCAR — an April Fool’s story from Car & Driver.)

What nobody has yet explained to me is how, if Obama’s going to confiscate everybody’s guns, that the proper response to that is to run out and buy more guns for him to confiscate. If I were an apocalyptic millenialist dipshit intent on maintaining the capability to mow down my local constabulary in the face of a gun confiscation pogrom, I’d simply wait for the jackbooted thugs of the ATF to run their confiscation routine, then I’d head out to one of the dozens of gun shops in this nation that keeps shoddy records, the better to funnel guns to criminals my dear, and restock my arsenal there.

While I was doing that, I’d also check that store’s bulletin board to see when the next gun show is scheduled locally. You do know that many gun show vendors violate state and federal registration and disclosure laws, don’t you? Oh, and I’d patrol eBay’s auctions of military memorabilia, where “models” of war weapons can be procured, along with the instructions to make them functional. Then it’s back to the gun shows to get ammo for them.

You can be sure that the talk show idiots who promulgate this “gun confiscation” fairy story would, if actually faced with anything like a token attempt to enforce gun laws more strictly, would fill in all the details of the above points I made for the Richard Poplawskis and Jiverly Wongs in their audiences, thereby creating still more of them.

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