Daily Blog – 3/29/2014: A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck Los Angeles last night. That one wasn’t caused by tectonic plate shifts in the Earth’s crust. This quake was similar to the events seen in a tsunami, where a seismic event happens at point A, and it causes a wave that travels outward until it builds up to a climax at point B. The City of Angels earthquake was caused by Piers Morgan slamming the door hard as he left a building across the country in the City of A-Holes—New York City—sort of like the Butterfly Effect where the flapping wings of the swallowtail spawns a hurricane. I’m going to tip my hat (a little bit) to Piers Morgan. A hat tip is a sign of respect. First though, let me stress that I disagree with his rationale, because I know that unless I make that clear, someone’s going to jump me faster than guys jumping over each other at a red light sale on 22’s at the local Wal-Mart. I respect Mr. Morgan on this one point only: that he was able to articulate his viewpoint and deliver it in an intelligent fashion, backed up with facts—facts that at least according to his view, support his position. The Brits have always been a well versed in the Queen’s English, and an intellectual gang of pompous twits (to quote Monty Python). By contrast, Americans have always been ambitious Mavericks, addicted to Freedom, including the freedom to own, display, and carry guns. Twenty years or so, some Brits came to Paris, Texas to be trained at Kimberly-Clark. They brought with them a mixture of ambivalence and intrigue at American’s fascination with guns; they expressed this openly in conversation at the break table. So, a buddy of mine rounded up the whole gang one day, carried them out to the rifle range, and let those buggers’ shoot everything from shotguns to pistols to assault rifles. According to accounts, they were giddy as little school kids, and as happy as pig in slop. These Brits were all grown men, some in their 30s and 40s, who had never so much as fired a BB gun in their entire lives! Needless to say, the consensus was that they left hooked on guns… Master Morgan shouldn’t be shocked at American gun culture. He should know that we successfully used guns to wage war against his Motherland, in part due to our resistance to taxation without representation. Two hundred years later, we have the right to own guns as written by our represented agreement at the time, and England still has one of the highest tax rates of the developed world. Again, I don’t disagree with any of the crime statistics that Morgan threw out during his parting Swan Song. I suspect they are factual for the most part. Still, it goes back to the saying, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” His rationale of concluding that there is need to take guns out of that equation seems logical on the surface, except for the fact that it is impossible to do that. The Gun Genie has already been sprung from the bottle. What I find interesting is that while I view being anti-gun as a liberal opinion (because I think the legislative record would show that gun control is largely the domain of the liberal left agenda), to a CERTAIN degree, the reaction is SORT of like responses that are inherently CONSERVATIVE in nature. I think Master Morgan would make a fine Baptist pew warmer. Conservative Baptists consistently express the same sort of “hedge law” mentality. As an example, the old saw about “Baptist not believing in dancing” (of which there is some truth) is grounded in a hedge law mentality, first seen all the way back in the Garden. God told Adam, “Don’t eat of the fruit…” Adam told Eve, “Don’t even touch or look at it…” The first “hedge law.” Concept: Build a hedge (outer, more restrictive barrier) around the Law, to protect the person FROM the Law. So, the Baptist theory is that we can’t allow Little Johnny and Julie to dance together, because that might lead to AROUSAL, which might lead to the breaking of the Law (lust and/or fornication). So, in the U.S., we’ve adopted a more narrow and simple approach. We have a law that says you can own guns. We have other laws for dealing with people who use guns unlawfully. Our construction is problematic of course. The problem is complex. It is in part a side effect of a free market system AND excessive freedom, which yields rich people who want to succeed, and lazy people who express their freedom to be slackers. It is a recipe for crime, true. One BIG problem is the hypocrisy of the Liberal Left, to oppose any and all countermeasures that would help solve the very problems they are so repulsed by. Liberals oppose guns, but they also oppose capital punishment. They wouldn’t argue that income disparity leads to crime (in fact it is their very belief). Yet, hypocritically they oppose most policies that would FORCE impoverished people to improve themselves. Liberals want to just give the poor money, and really keep them in a state of dependence and partial poverty, and then scream gun control when people in the State dependent inner cities keep shooting one another with bullets. Piers Morgan is a classic liberal. It’s not the politicians or the people’s fault. It’s the guns fault… Barf! Go back home Piers. Clean up your own house. Parting shot: Morgan left because his ratings were tanking, as are CNN, MSNBC, and all the other liberal media outlets in general, because people are getting sick of Liberal garbage viewpoints and policies that fail to work. PEACE!!! L2theB lancebailey.org/blog.html
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:00:43 +0000