Guns Be Bad

I was just listening to Adam Carolla’s podcast from July 22, 2012. The Aurora, Colorado shooting had just happened and libtard “news girl” Alison Rosen reported it.

Carolla proceeds to wax on about his idea to employ plainclothes “Air Marshals” to patrol “venues” around the US, paid for by the public through additional taxation. By his thinking, only certain places and events will need protection from these plainclothes Super Beings: sorry, Montana, you’re too small and insignificant. Los Angeles, filled with important people, number one on his list. Doing this, says the self-admitted dimwit, will stop incidents such as Aurora.

Normally, Carolla’s voice is the soul of cold pragmatism, but in this case he’s not only way off base, he ain’t even playing Baseball. First of all, we the public already pay for these special “Air Marshals” to patrol venues, only they’re not called “Air Marshals”; they’re called the “Police”. Second, no matter how many Police you employ, to completely prevent these kinds of incidents, you’d have to arm and train one policeman or woman to protect each person. That’s taking things to absurdity yes, but it’s to prove a point.

In an earlier podcast, Adam had come out in grudging support of concealed weapons licensees, but in this podcast it seemed he’d forgotten about his earlier support and was instead pushing for those things he’s normally and vehemently against: more government intrusion, more taxation. After judging Adam’s “Air Marshal-But-On-The-Ground” idea, Rosen, reliably liberal as usual, opines in response to some tweets re a concealed weapons carrier could have stopped the Colorado rampage: “No they couldn’t have. The guy was wearing body armor!” and smugly, as liberals are wont, relaxes into the pillow of stupidity every one of them carries around.

So let me get this straight: concealed weapons carriers couldn’t have stopped the shooter in Aurora because he was wearing armor, but plain-clothes “Air Marshals” armed in the same manner, by some dint of superhuman effort unlike those of the armed civilians could have.

Idiots, one and all.

In the words of the asshole politician in the White House, let me be clear (only, I’ll actually be clear): you’re not going to get rid of guns in America. For starters, it’s in the fucking Bill of Rights. So then, follow the designs of the Founders and license people to carry firearms, a trend I’m ever so glad to notice is sweeping the nation. You cannot have a policeperson on every corner, but what you do have are citizens. Long live the Republic.