Politics

The minute you heard about the mass shooting at the school in Newtown you should have also known two other things:

1. There would be an immediate use of this tragedy by the liberals to get further their gun-control agenda.

2. There would be a perpetual search for why this happened.

As to point 1, I didn’t have to wait long for it to appear. Within hours, you had the liberals on the offensive launching a new round of gun-control demands. Connecticutt does have fairly strict gun control laws, and, as often happens in such environments, the results didn’t match the public’s expectations of the legislation. People would be best served to understand that laws can’t stop “the firm resolve of a determined soul.” The quoted was from Hyrum Smith during his productivity seminars dealing with personal productivity. It works with respect to human behavior. If someone is intent on killing someone and isn’t afraid of dying himself, there is little the government can do to stop him. Regardless, you will continue to see Obama and other liberals in the federal governments, media and state governments call attempting to use this tragedy to score political points. Given our movement toward a liberal society where feelings matter more than facts, the political class will likely succeed in its endeavor.

As to point 2, I have never understood why this search happens, especially when the perp is dead. My wife tells me it helps with those grieving to make sense of the event and to move on with their lives. Perhaps, but that means they’re living under a false premise. We can never know why people do what they do whether it is due to lack of impulse control, hatred, or whatever. Regardless, most seem to spend a lot of time and energy chasing that which they won’t find.

What this tragedy should really teach us is that laws don’t solve problems. People on the scene of any incident solve problems. Criminals don’t care about the laws. If they did, they wouldn’t be criminals. Government can’t protect you whether you’re talking physically or financially, and seeding further freedoms to them in the “hope” of protection is what has allowed the worst despots in the world’s history come to power.

Are we seeing that here?

There is much hand wringing in the Republican Party over the election results and the particular deficits among the various groups.

One thing that should be obvious: we can’t win by out-Democrating the Democrats.

When you have a party that has based its whole existence on dividing the country into constituencies and then buying these constituencies with goodies from the government. The Republicans are not going to win by doing the same. Why?

Well, those of us who are Republican will not vote for them because this is against our view of what government should be doing. So, if the party goes down this path, it will cease to exist as we will exit the party forming a third party and those remaining will not be able to gain any market share from those currently voting for the Democrats.