Don’t Think, Just “Do Something!!”

As I watch the United States continue on it’s downward spiral of rewarding stupidity, I’m drawn to the latest edition of knee-jerk politics regarding gun control. Some lunatic freaks out at VT and everybody wants more gun laws. I have no problem with gun laws. I have no problem with ANY law, as long as it does something constructive. I do have a problem with stupid people, however, and I really wish there were a law against them.

I have heard repeated news programs questioning how in the world insane student Cho Seung-Hui was able to buy a gun. How? Because he passed the background check because there was no record of his craziness in any database, that’s how. Just as gun-haters have proven their stupidity by assuming that the over-two-thousand guns laws we currently have aren’t enough, they now want a magic database that knows whether people are crazy or not. Don’t laugh, they really think that. Most gun controllers just don’t like guns and they openly admit that they are for “anything that restricts guns.” Their position is that they are morally right and therefore do not need facts, statistics, or logic of any kind to prove their point. You see, as long as a new gun law might stop a crime, or might stop one crime out of ten thousand, it’s still worth it. It doesn’t matter that law-abiding citizens may get punished. I read that the mental health records for Seung-Hui were not reported to the authorities because it must be done voluntarily. I wonder if the ACLU were involved in that law. I wonder why a law that allows crazy people not to report their craziness to the authorities is an acceptable risk to “protect out freedoms” but allowing law-abiding citizens to buy guns is not an acceptable risk to “protect our freedoms.”

Don’t laugh again…

The problem here is an American one. We’re the fattest country on earth, but no one believes there is a connection between obesity and our upward spiraling heath costs. Don’t put away the donuts and walk around the block, just switch to diet soda and sleep well at night knowing that you’re doing “the best you can.” Apply the same twisted logic to your spending habits. Buy houses, cars, and plasma TVs you can’t afford and ignore your kids college fund. It’s not your fault. You’re doing “the best you can.” If some nut shoots 30 people, just pass another gun law. You’re doing “the best you can.” If that law has no affect on crime, or the likelihood of that crime happening again, so what? You have to do something. You’re doing “the best you can.” Remember, doing something shallow and meaningless is fine as long as YOU believe it’s worthwhile. That’s the American way.