In my last exciting episode, “Wishful Thinking“, I posited that liberal ideology is based on wishful thinking. Specific recent examples were the tragic death of our Libyan ambassador in Benghazi, which could have been avoided if the Obama State Department had been clear-eyed about the Arab Spring, plus the contraction of the economy in the last quarter of 2012, when we had “negative growth” instead of the recovery the administration and the Obama-fawning media assured us was under way.
Another glaring example of liberal wishful thinking is the left’s position on gun control. It’s difficult for me to even talk about it because the liberal position is so obviously and tragically flawed that it shouldn’t require refutation.
What reasonable person wouldn’t understand that making innocent people defenseless does nothing to protect them from people who have evil intent and no regard for the law?
But that may lead us to the nut of the problem: Liberals don’t believe in evil. Except for Republicans. Exhibit A from another field of liberal wishful thinking: the Environment and alternative energy. Global-warming evangelist Al Gore recently sold his Current TV network to, of all people, Al-Jazeera, the terrorist coddling propaganda outlet that is financed with Middle Eastern oil interests. Glen Beck, conservative TV, radio and Internet mogul, tried to buy it, but Gore obviously considered oil-money-financed, Muslim apologists better than an American conservative to revive his money-losing network.
Other examples abound, such as Obama administration officials gushing about Mao Tse Tung, who murdered five times as many Chinese as Hitler did European Jews.
Liberals don’t believe in “bad guys”, which is how most people see those who gun down innocents in malls and schools. The left believe those who use guns to commit crimes wouldn’t have hurt anyone if there hadn’t been guns available. The other side of that coin is that, for liberals, ANYONE who has access to a gun is a potential mass murderer, because it is the gun that is the problem. People can’t be expected to control their own actions; they are at the mercy of their surroundings. If a gun is nearby, it is likely to take possession of someone and they will use it to kill a lot of people.
That is obviously hogwash.
More people are killed every year with baseball bats than with “assault weapons”. People with anger issues will find a way to hurt others whether a gun is available or not. People who believe in the reality of evil and the need for redemption, like Christians, understand that evil is real and dangerous, and that, if you are responsible, you will protect those whom you love from those who would do you harm, even while you pray for their salvation.
Ironically, it is the permissiveness of liberal child rearing that creates the personality disorders that lead to violent crimes. Families without fathers, one result of indulgent welfare policy and permissiveness toward promiscuity, is a leading cause of delinquency, growth of gang violence, etc. Again, an unrealistic view of the potential for evil prevents liberals from disciplining children. Undisciplined children may grow into resentful, unhappy and potentially dangerous adults. Moral relativism destroys respect for the life and property of others. A sense of entitlement engendered by a lack of childhood discipline and self restraint breeds adults who will take whatever they want, by force if necessary.
The people who legally and responsibly carry guns stop crimes of theft and murder every week. Usually they don’t even have to fire the gun. Just the awareness that someone else has a gun nearly always stops a ne’er-do-well in his tracks. In the case of the Sandy Hook tragedy, the deranged gunman shot himself as soon as the police arrived and fired a warning shot into the ceiling. People like him are not wanting to get into a firefight. They want to prey on defenseless people in “gun-free” zones.
And liberal politicians want to make more of us defenseless sitting ducks.
