Guns and Poses: The issue is never the issue...Culture is.

 G. Murphy Donovan has a suitably vague resume that includes being a military veteran and a retired member of the "intelligence community."  But it is enough to know that he has some idea of what he is writing about in a piece entitled Guns and Poses at the American Thinker.

If I were to sum up the article, it would be that the solution to violence (notice I didn't say "gun violence" because a bat is just as deadly a weapon as a gun) is to be found in raising children who respect the lives of others. It is, in other words, culture.

 Donovan is not shy about the lack of enforcement of criminal laws already on the books. Nor is he shy about calling out blacks in particular for taking advantage of our idiotic welfare laws which leave too many children without a father to provide that balanced discipline. He isn't shy about calling out the liberal moral morons who have foisted this cultural nightmare on us from the gated communities and ivory towers where they remain unaffected by it all.  Donovan is nothing if not a realist.

The bottom line on gun ownership is simple. Most Americans have guns, not because they don’t feel safe, but because know they are not safe. Available data demonstrate that a criminal shooter is not likely to be caught, prosecuted, convicted, or punished. In the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., the closure rate on gun homicide is 40% (Infographic here). If you kill in Washington, better than even money says you will not be caught, prosecuted, or convicted.

Violent crime is gun justification; the kind of Second Amendment safety that the city, state, or federal government is unable or unwilling to provide these days. Why not ransack the local pharmacy or loot Louis Vuitton, or even blow someone away over a pair of Michael Jordan sneakers, when the scales of justice are weighted in favor of the misfits among us? Criminals, not victims, are usually the heroes of most woke social narratives these days. San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, take a bow here.

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Few rifles, including the AR-15, are used for murder.

The weapon of choice for more than half of the nation's homicides is a semi-automatic handgun. Rifles kill or wound at a distance; a handgun maims in close quarters. All weapons are “assault” weapons, including ball bats, drunk drivers, drug dealers, and especially the semi-automatic handgun. And the whining about “high-capacity magazines” is claptrap, too. Uvalde mass shooter Salvador Ramos could have done the same damage in Uvalde, Texas, with a .22 caliber Ruger target pistol with just one spare clip. A clip can be ejected and replaced in the time it takes to clap your hands.

The high-capacity clip argument is bogus, unless the idea is to audit and verify clip or ammunition caches. And what would be done about all that legacy or extant firepower; nationwide house-to-house search and seizure? All realistic remedies need to be proceeded by honest assessments of the problem. Historically, noisy demagogues, not common sense, dominate our gun arguments.

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Between social indoctrination, social promotion, and now disease sabbaticals; we have cultivated several generations of innumerate, semiliterate, malcontents. Are we really surprised that some kids attack the very families and schoolhouses that nourished their ignorance, confusion, resentment, hate, and anger? The best primary school is a stable home where both parents teach adult values and set boundaries long before high school. If values are not learned at home, neither the streets, nor Hillary’s “village,” will ever fill that void.

Is it possible that we have failed the very children we pretend to protect and educate? Salvador Ramos shot his granny in the face at home and then wasted a host of kids at Robb Elementary. Ramos’ grandfather said his grandson was upset because his wife had “asked the teen to pay his own cell phone bill.” Yet, we pretend to be puzzled about the killer’s inspiration or motives.

The above are some snippets to give you a good taste of exactly where Donovan is coming from. It is a place of total honesty about the true cultural rot facing the nation today. Those issues result in violence as teens who have been cheated of a real education are tossed away by society, and lash out. Still most of them do not commit violence and murder. Most of them do seek a better life, though they are handicapped in their pursuit by lack of knowledge. We voted these scavengers into office. Isn't it time we voted them out. It would be a very mild punishment compared to what they deserve.

As for the "education system," we need a new one. We need to re-establish respect for teachers, who need to be respectable. We need to bring back prayer in schools, and emphasize the teaching of academic disciplines, and get rid of the teaching of identity politics, queer theory, and the other "woke" crap. See also J. B. Shurk Here.

Bottom line, as David Horowitz has written, the issue is never the issue.  In this case, guns are not the issue, culture is.  We need to reassert Western civilization and culture, and jettison the low brow rot that surrounds us today.