Gun Grabbing Gowdy Goes Goofy

Timothy Birdnow

I caught Trey Gowdy on the Clay and Buck show yesterday. I always suspected he was a RINO but he proved it by going all-in on gun control.

Essentially Gowdy's argument was "we have do do SOMETHING!" and as all he can think of is take guns away from people that's what he insists on doing.

Clay Travis and Buck Sexton pretty much tore him up. As they pointed out, gun control would have done nothing to stop this latest shooting.

And in fact they were so handing him his head that at one point he was gone - and everyone assumed he had hung up. They did get him back but I wonder if the "lost connection" wasn't intended to buy him a minute or two to think.

He kept asking "what would you do" but this is not a legal issue so much as a moral and spiritual; these mass shooters are nihilists and nihilism leads to despair. We've got to start teaching morality in America again.

As Gowdy said (and I agree) the claim is always "gpverm,emt can't teach morality". Horsepoop. We teach morality all the time. Take Civil Rights. Prior to the sixties most people agreed with the notion that you had every right to have separate but equal, and to exclude people from businesses and ;jobs based on their race. But this didn't sit well with many in our society and so we passed a series of laws to enforce our vision of morality, which includes inclucivity for minorities. The Civil Rights acts, the Fair Housing Act, etc. imposed stiff penalties for discriminating against people based on their race. This was a purely moral judgement; in other countries they just discriminate and if the minority is lucky won't simply exterminate them. Today racism is considered the ultimate sin, but that wasn't true just seventy years ago. The morality followed the law.

We've seen this sort of thing in all avenues of life. Does anyone believe gay marriage would be the law of the land without government pushing it forward?

It's not just the force of law but the money spent, including long-term education. There is no reason the same efforts could not be taken in schools to make shooting people unthinkable. But it's not because the leftists in public education teach revolution and "rubbing raw the sores of discontent" as Saul Alinsky put it. They are quite happy with school shooting because they create an atmosphere of chaos and fear taht can be exploited to push societal evolution.

Gowdy seemed to believe everyone was opposed to these shootings.

He also seemed to believe that mass shootings are way up. They aren't. We've had them through our whole national history. They have gotten worse, granted, because of improvements in technology, but they've always been there. And they still account for just a tiny fraction of all gun related violence (0.2% of gun deaths in the United States). I would add that Asian folk here comprise the largest ethnic group as a percentage of their population committing mass shootings.

In point of fact I owe my very existence to a mass shooting. In the early 1920's my grandmother was at a movie theatre and a guy came in and shot up the place. She was shot in the hand and had to spend a few days in the hospital. It was there that my grandfather came to visit her. She had dated him casually and didn't plan to see him again but when he was her only visitor she realized he was serious and took a second look. They married not too much after, and my uncle and father were the product of that union. Needless to say my father had a little something to do with my birth.

So these things have been happening for some time now.

To get back to Gowdy, he is clearly a victim of the notion that you just have to do something, even if it doesn't do a lick of good.

He pointed out we already have gun control. He's right; machine guns, tanks, bazookas, etc. are all banned. Maybe they shouldn't be? Maybe if the school had had a machine gun and someone who knew how to use itt this kid would never have dared.

I pointed out America has long experimented with gun control in an article I wrote some years back. That experiment has been a resounding failure.

The solution Clay and Buck proposed; armed guards in schools. We are forever talking about that but never doing it. And in fact teachers are already there and should be trained and armed. It's not that difficult. In fact, this scumbag kid said in his manifesto he chose a school, like so many other mass shooters before him, because it was a soft target. And he chose the beginning of the school year because he assumed a lack of vigilance. He was right.

Arming guards - and perhaps hiring retired military and cops and giving them special tax breaks in lieu of money - along with armed teachers, and constricted entry points, would go a long way to reduce these school shootings. Now schools are generally "gun free zones" meaning parents are unarmed, teachers are unarmed, and the killers are heavily armed.

If children are our most precious commodity why aren't we protecting them better? That Catholic school should have had a restricted space between the church and the parking lot so the killer couldn't get close.

And as I pointed out in my American Thinker article, guns are mere conveniences; killers can use incendiary devices (thermite is ridiculously easy to make, for instance) or even poison gas. Ban guns and we'll start seeing  parboiled children. And knives always work, which is why places like Britain are now banning them. Where do you stop? A Machete? A board with a nail in it? 

But again, this is ultimately a moral and spiritual issue. Until we start teaching children that there is a right and wrong, and that there are consequences, consequences beyond just a rap on the knuckles (as in eternal damnation) this sort of thing will continue. That idiot kid needed to be IN that church, not shooting at it. But someone got ahold of him and filled his mind with nihilism. Nihilism killed Nietchze (after first driving him mad).

Anything we do via the law is destined to fail. Laws only work in a moral society. But we have made a false god of the Law and always assume government power can fix problems that stem from the darkness of the human heart. They can't and until we figure that out we will have to just live with this stuff.

Trey Gowdy means well but he's trapped by our post-modernist thinking. When you have to exercise the power of the state you have already failed.

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