The events of recent shootings have occasioned a great renewal of public debate over “violence” in our culture. According to the popular narrative of the media and Bleeding Heart Liberals (an apt description if there ever was one), American society suffers from a sick fascination with guns and violent entertainment. Gun magazines, Grand Theft Auto, action movies, these are all a ”disease” in America which must be ”cured” to prevent more innocent death. With no sense of irony whatsoever, these shrill harpies screech with unabashed seriousness that we must do something, and that it’s for the children. You might ask them why they don’t seem overly concerned about other people’s children killed by Hellfire missiles launched at the behest of a smooth talking African American gentleman, but expect to get accused of changing the subject or “making a false comparison” if you bring this before their crude senses.

The reality of the liberal’s true sentiments is most accurately hidden within the items they find most terrifying and repulsive. They speak of “military style assault weapons”, and from this very phrase you can learn more about their psychology and ethos than you could from months spent watching The View. They are simply horrified of anything associated with war, and especially things warriors might want to own or entertain themselves with. War movies, warlike toys, war in video games, and most certainly any firearm which has the “style” of a military weapon, even if doesn’t have the function. The very first Assault Weapons Ban was living proof of this, with items like bayonets prohibited from guns, since the idea of having a weapon which looks “too warlike” inspires a “liberal” flow of urine down Democrat trouser legs.

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