The plot sickens...

PM

In regards to the Aurora, CO movie theater shooting:
The American Media has already revved up the Spin Machine and begun the Parade of Experts to wring their hands and explain why this all happened. I've already heard that this was a quest for notoriety or a cry for attention. To me, this cheapens the tragedy a little and lends an air of sanity to the shooter. Sociopathic sanity, to be sure, but it implies that he knew what he was doing was incredibly wrong but did it anyway just to get everyone speaking his name.
 
Here's my armchair analysis... <deep breath>
 
This guy is deeply disturbed and feels, for whatever reason, oppressed by Society. I am not a fan of the Batman comics and therefore not an expert on the character Bane but from what I've read about the movie he is a domestic terrorist who seeks to bring down the oppressive whatever of Gotham City. It looks to me like our boy identified with that character and sought to emulate him to the fullest extent possible in order to make a statement. To me, most all mass shootings like this are statements. These are people who feel powerless. They are, for numerous reasons, ill-equipped to deal with those feelings. You and I may feel powerless from time to time, but generally we sigh and say "What can you do?" and go on about our daily lives (I could go on and on about why that is a direct cause of our current governmental situation... and I will, but not here). To some, however, that same feeling that we shrug off becomes a splinter in their eye. It burns and it festers and it increasingly dominates their thoughts until it becomes all-consuming. As the commercial says, when you feel powerless, you want to take the power back. Now, you or I might get involved with a political organization or a cause/charity, learn a martial art, ...start a blog... but to those who lack that capacity, violence is nearly always the answer.
 
(Side note, to those who say violence never solves anything, read history. It's generally solved everything for those who supplied it. Not advocating, just being honest.)
 
Columbine, Virginia Tech, any bombing undertaken by Al Qaeda et al, now this. Pick a mass murder and you'll find someone trying to exert power over those they view as oppressively In Power either directly, as in Columbine, or indirectly. It's not about notoriety or Getting on TV, but the people we "trust" to report on news stories such as this have long ago become unable to keep their thirst for popularity and desire to be on camera from coloring their analysis and therefore everything like this is reported through that prism. As George Carlin said, always doubt the offered story and seek your own answers.
 
Now to the main reason I brought this up.
 
Gun Control.
 
I am a Strict-Constructionalist Libertarian. I think the Constitution was a Pretty Neat Idea until they added the 2nd Amendment, then it became the Greatest Thing to Ever Happen in The History of the Governance of Free People. The fact that our founders built a republic with the built-in safety valve against tyranny that is the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms speaks volumes about how focused those men were on the concept of Liberty. Let's put it this way: You start a business and hire people. You promise your new employees that they will have a say in the running of your business and you then give them the means to remove you and install new leadership should you ever become a tyrannical boss and deny them their voice in the company. That's what the Founders did. They guaranteed the right, and more importantly the ability, of the people to remove from power the very government they set up if it ever became an impediment to the Liberty of the People. Our current ruling class is very aware of the danger the 2nd amendment poses to them. If the People ever fully realize the extent to which their Liberty has been eroded and becomes fully aware of their on legal and physical ability to take the power back then our elected "leaders" are truly up a certain well-known watercourse without a means of propulsion. 
(Granted, we would have a much tougher row to hoe than our founders did, given the disparity between the people's arms and those of the government but, again we'll talk later...) This awareness, shared by every despotic regime ever (read history, they nearly all banned the private ownership of weapons), has led our current administration to subterfuge to push the Anti-2nd Agenda. Fast and Furious, for those who haven't heard, put high-powered, high-capacity firearms almost directly into the hands of Mexican drug cartels (who, way the by, make Pol Pot and Idi Amin look like grade school bullies in terms of violence) in an effort to "track their movements across the border".
 
Pardon my French, but bullshit.
 
There are only two reasons to enact such a program. Either A: their telling the truth and they are so incompetent as to think that might actually work without getting American citizens killed or, B: to use it as a political banner to say "Look! These evil guns were sold by evil gun shop owners to these evil drug lords who came back and killed a bunch of Americans! We must BAN ALL PRIVATELY OWNED GUNS!!! DOWN WITH THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!!". I may be exaggerating a little and of course they would never be that clear about their intentions but, again, read history. Every time there is a major, national-news level incident involving guns, every Anti-2nd nut in Congress, the Media, and the General Population leaps from the woodwork demanding more and stricter controls on the private ownership of guns. Now, before those who think folks like me are all tin-foil-hat conspiracy junkies start in on me, I do not think that today's shooting was planned or even expected in any way to push the agenda (...or was it?). I just think that, if the Obama Regime, and specifically its Department of "Justice", were willing to green-light something as monumentally stupid as Fast and Furious to push this agenda, who in their right mind would think they would not try to use this massive tragedy (12 dead, 50 injured!) to their political advantage. 
 
I know, I know, you say "How could they accomplish that? It's in the Constitution that Congress shall make no law..."
 
Here's where I would interrupt you.
 
Exactly!, I'd say. CONGRESS shall make no law. Doesn't say anything about executive orders.
 
Admittedly, the Constitution does lay some pretty heavy limits on the powers of the executive branch and that type of thing is technically illegal. Problem is, those limits have to be enforced by Congress, and Congress, hell, all of D.C., is full of lawyers.
 
Lawyers (pl. noun): people who make livings wringing every possible nuance of meaning from any set of words in order to justify damn near any action. see also: Liar 
 
This President (also a lawyer) has already shown that he is more than willing to circumvent the will of Congress and enact policy on his own and the current crop of miscreants in congress, especially the ruling party of the Senate, have also shown that they are willing to let him circumvent them in the name of Party Solidarity (hmmm... that sounds suspiciously Soviet. Is My Freudian slip showing?). Now I will admit that as I type this, Mr. Obama is using the TV coverage of one of his campaign stops in FL to make his Official Presidential Statement on the shooting and, to his credit, he made not one mention of the guns involved. 
 
Don't worry, he will.
 
Or Biden will. Or Pelosi or Reid. It's coming folks. There will come a day, fairly soon, I think-before the people wake up and grab their boots, when these people will try to bring their Anti-2nd Agenda to its logical conclusion. These leeches and ghouls will use anything, any event no matter how tragic, to their political advantage. 
 
The plot sickens...
 
till next time, 
dc.    
 
P.s., since writing this, it has come to light that Mr. Holmes identified with The Joker and not Bane.