With the first heart-breaking headlines out of Colorado, gun-rights advocates just had to know that leftist lecturers in our media would mount their soap boxes and trash this country for its gun culture and trash the National Rifle Association as an "enabler of death -- paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion."
But it's additionally sad that the soap box in this case is paid for by taxpayers. On the website for his show Moyers & Company [1], 78-year-old PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers reached back to America's inhumane and vicious Westward expansion, when so many blood-thirsty Americans were killed because of their ineptitude with firearms:
MOYERS: We are after all a country which began with the forced
subjugation into slavery of millions of Africans and the reliance on
arms against Native Americans for its Westward expansion. In truth, more
settlers traveling the Oregon Trail died from accidental,
self-inflicted gunshots wounds than Indian attacks - we were not only
bloodthirsty but also inept.
Nonetheless, we have become so gun loving, so blasé about home-grown
violence that in my lifetime alone, far more Americans have been
casualties of domestic gunfire than have died in all our wars combined.
In Arizona last year, just days after the Gabby Giffords shooting, sales
of the weapon used in the slaughter - a 9 millimeter Glock
semi-automatic pistol - doubled.
We are fooling ourselves. That the law could allow even an inflamed
lunatic to easily acquire murderous weapons and not expect murderous
consequences. Fooling ourselves that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of
a "well-regulated militia" be construed as a God-given right to
purchase and own just about any weapon of destruction you like. That's a license for murder and mayhem and it's a great fraud that has entered our history.
There's a video of which I'd like to remind you. You can see it on
YouTube. In it, Adam Gadahn, an American born member of al Qaeda, the
first U.S. citizen charged with treason since 1952, urges terrorists to
carry out attacks on the United States. Right before your eyes he says:
"America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go
down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a
fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most
likely, without having to show an identification card. So what are you
waiting for?"
The killer in Colorado waited only for an opportunity, and there you
have it - the arsenal of democracy transformed into the arsenal of death
and the NRA -- the NRA is the enabler of death -- paranoid,
delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion. With the weak-kneed
acquiescence of our politicians, the National Rifle Association has
turned the Second Amendment of the Constitution into a cruel hoax, a
cruel and deadly hoax.
Anyone who thinks PBS is not a left-wing propaganda system supported involuntarily (in part) by conservative Americans has never flipped the remote control past the "public" broadcasting channels. The funders of PBS are enablers of vicious anti-conservative rhetoric, even at times of great national sorrow.