Nothing "Hokey" About This

Words may be failing Double-H vis-a-vie the mass shooting spree that fell upon Virginia Tech University yesterday, but his sentiments aren't - and should be shared by all of us.

They won't be, of course; the temptation of the Left to go after the Second Amendment again using the thirty-two dead VT students as human shields will be overpowering. Happily, Cap'n Ed pre-empts the New York Times this morning quite nicely.

UPDATE: Right on schedule, a Donk congressman blames the heinous actions of Seung-hui Cho, the Korean immigrant gunman not on, well, the Korean immigrant gunman, nor the gunman's scapegoat, "American rich kids and their debauched society," but President Bush, the Republican Party, and the NRA:

Less than twenty-four hours after the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, liberal Representative Jim Moran took to the airwaves to launch a political attack against President Bush, congressional Republicans and the National Rifle Association.

Appearing on the Jack Diamond Morning Show on 107.3 FM in Northern Virginia, Moran suggested Republicans were to blame for Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech, which left thirty-three dead and injured another thirty. The anti-gun congressman said Republican policies made it easy for the shooter to obtain a gun.

When the show's host tried to suggest that the gunman may have been [duh] hellbent on killing regardless of the law, Moran turned the conversation back to the GOP, complaining that the United States needs a national registry to track all firearms purchases and more stringent gun-control laws. Moran then blamed Bush and Republicans in Congress for opposing such measures at the behest of the NRA.

I keep waiting for this sort of relentless left-wing slander to reach critical mass and trigger a huge center-right backlash, and it never does. Well, okay, once, in 1994, but we'll not see anything like that again in my lifetime. Nevertheless, I have a challenge for Jim "Jews got us into Iraq" Moran: either (1) introduce a constitutional amendment formally repealing the Second Amendment, which is what he and his bottom-feeding ilk are really after, or (2) shut the bleep up.

But if we're looking for scapegoats that can actually and substantively be linked with atrocities like the one at Virginia Tech, El Rushbo has an intriguing suggestion or two:

I want to throw a little thought out there, folks. We're all talking now about - well, some people are - we need more gun control laws. We need make sure that people can't get guns and so forth. There's going to be a convocation at two o'clock, forty-six minutes from now, and there will be prayers, and there have been prayers ever since the first word of this was reported yesterday morning and all through the day. That's fine. Don't misunderstand me here. But perhaps we could have done a little of that
prior to the incident as well. The Drive-Bys want to go back and take a look at the gun control laws and say, "Well, that's where the problem exists." Were I to say to a Drive-By Media person, were he or she on this show, I can imagine the reaction I would get.

Maybe there needs to be more religion and prayer at our universities, folks. Maybe there needs to be a sense on college campuses that there's something bigger than the individual. Maybe there's something larger than the professor. Maybe they're not too young to learn that there are many things in life larger than self, and maybe being able to take comfort in a relationship with that which is larger than self ( i.e., God) would have a calming effect on some of these people who go absolutely nuts and lose their sanity.

But that's even arguable. But can you imagine the leftists hearing me say this now: More prayer, more religion at our university? "Separation of church and state!" would be the template there. "What are you trying to do? You're trying to force a religion on people!" No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no! You don't understand. You can't possibly because you're irreligious. But it's no different than going out and saying, "Hey, we need gun control," after the fact.

Yeah, "Congressman" Moran. Put that in your bong and toke it. "Maybe it's not enough God, maybe it's the culture of death on the part of the left, maybe there needs to be more religion in the public square, maybe the tarring and feathering of religious people, which happens in the Democrat Party and the American left, is responsible for this." Maybe it's YOUR fault. Maybe if the American electorate hadn't gone 'round the bend last November and put you dhimmized, self-righteous, morally bankrupt quislings back in power, maybe if Virginia Tech students had also been armed and able to defend themselves, thirty-three hokeys would still be alive today.

Arguing that the answer to gun violence is to render the law abiding even more defenseless against it is idiotic. Blaming gun violence on those who call idiocy for what it is is despicable.

Always said the DisLoyalists were versatile.

UPDATE II: Here is Moran's moral antithesis.