As IF Times

link A Right to Bear Glocks? – NYTimes.com.

First of all, this is an op-ed from the New York Times, so it’s not as if it’s a real news piece.  However, the sentiments expressed are a sample of the knee jerk response from “progressives’ in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Arizona.  The shooter in this case, Jared Loughner, is by all accounts of people who knew him beforehand, mentally tenuous as many ex friends and even a teacher have stepped forth to claim.  Why he was able to acquire the arsenal of weapons and ammunition given his well known mental state is something the regulators will have to address.  Regardless, the gun control crowd have appeared like drunks at a wake to cite this as another reason to restrict firearms for the law abiding public.

On the same page in google news today is the horrific story of a gay murder in New York in which another disturbed man, this time a young gay model, castrates and kills his older sugar daddy with a wine corkscrew claiming that he was cleansing the older gentleman of homosexual demons.  Try as we might, we don’t find any op-ed pieces condemning this act as one made possible by the ample availability of corkscrews and certainly not playing up the fact that these two players were gay.

The fact of the matter is, the world is populated by mentally tenuous people.  We pass by them every day although they do not always betray their shortcomings.  Some occupy positions of influence in our society and there is evidence that some of the most deranged wind up in politics or the media.  In the Arizona shooting case, the rational, non partisan media have drawn a laugh out loud comical connection between Sarah Palin and the tragedy.  While rational people will dismiss this as juvenile  and partisan finger pointing, there are those not as familiar with logical thinking that will embrace this opinion as being valid.

Jared Loughner, the crazy shooter, apparently took inspiration from such great works of literature as The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, classics for any mentally unstable person.  The fact that he was a left wing nut has been somehow overlooked by the objective media.  In fact, acquaintances have characterized him as a left wing pothead.  Somehow those aspects are ignored and the focus is on the gun.   It was quite inconsiderate that a left wing wacko would go on a shooting rampage.  The media would have you believe that’s the purview of the right.    Good thing he didn’t read Adam Smith or Ronald Reagan.  Supposedly, there are regulations which are designed to prevent the mentally unstable from owning firearms, yet no filters for people who want to become journalists.  Hint for all the brilliant journalists out there;  reading the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf are more a clue of derangement than owing a gun.