December 17, 2012

As I lollygagged around the packed convention floor at the Eastman Gun Show in Gainesville, GA amid thousands of guns and what seemed like millions of bullets, it occurred to me that I”€™ve never heard of a mass shooting at a gun show.

This was on Saturday afternoon, a day after 20-year-old Adam Lanza went on a shooting spree that left twenty-eight dead. Lanza first murdered his mother at home, then drove to a local elementary school and blew away 20 children and six staff members before killing himself. He reportedly used guns that were legally registered to his mother after having been denied an application to obtain a rifle himself earlier in the week due to Connecticut’s relatively strict gun laws.

Before all the blood had time to dry, pro-government zombie toady scribes were shrieking for more “€œgun control“€ and insisting that “€œsomething”€ must be done NOW. They trotted out the tired meme that the “€œgun lobby“€ is very powerful and has a lot of money behind it”€”as if the government they dutifully worship doesn”€™t have far more power and money than the NRA. One went so far as to proclaim that “€œno person in the United States Of America should own a gun, unless they”€™re a police officer or a soldier.”€ And of course, “€œwhite men”€ were blamed, albeit by one white man after the next.

“€œHow did they turn from being the harshest critics of ‘The Man’ in the 1960s to being his most brainwashed advocates today?”€”€¨

Protected on all sides by well-armed Secret Service members, Barack Obama’s eyes grew misty as he proclaimed it was time to “€œtake meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this.”€ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also screamed from behind his posse of armed bodyguards for more gun control. Taking time off from repeatedly authorizing billions in taxes to bomb the shit out of the Middle East, other politicians decried the USA’s “€œgun culture.”€

The Soros shills at Think Progress, who never seemed to meet a white male they liked nor a government regulation they didn”€™t like, hastily cobbled together “€œA Timeline Of Mass Shootings In The US Since Columbine.”€

As always, anyone who writes for George Soros turns out to be”€”oh, what’s the word?”€”instructive. Much can be learned merely from taking their list of spree killers and digging a little more deeply. In most cases, the following massacres occurred in so-called “€œgun-free zones“€ that gun-control advocates naively thought would help prevent gun violence rather than encourage it:

“€¢ An autopsy concluded that Columbine killer Eric Harris had the SSRI antidepressant Fluvoxamine in his bloodstream at the time of his death.

“€¢ Jeff Weise, who killed nine people and himself at a Minnesota high school in 2005, was taking increasingly high doses of Prozac at the time of his spree.

“€¢ Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people and himself at an Omaha mall in 2007, reportedly “€œhad been on antidepressants“€ at the time of his shooting. He allegedly had taken antidepressants since he was six years old.

“€¢ Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 and wounded 23 at Virginia Tech in 2007, had been prescribed Prozac and had previously taken Paxil for a year, but he apparently had ceased taking his medication at the time of the shooting.

“€¢ Andrew Engeldinger killed five people and himself after being fired from his job in 2012. A police search of his house revealed he”€™d been prescribed the antidepressants Mirtazapine and Trazodone, as well as the insomnia medication Temazepam.

“€¢ Eduardo Sencion, who killed four people and himself with an assault rifle at a Utah IHOP in 2011, was a paranoid schizophrenic whose “€œmedications were changed“€ during the summer prior to his attack.

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