I'm not a vegetarian.

The best description of our current political climate I have ever heard goes like this: “A conservative vegetarian does not eat meat.  A liberal vegetarian does not want you to eat meat.”  The blood of the victims in the latest mass shooting in Oregon was not even dry before liberal pundits climbed up on the corpses to scream for more gun control.   My social media exploded with people posting and re-posting state sponsored propaganda from pretend news agencies.  Lots of rhetorical questions like: “How did this happen?” And, “How can we prevent this?”  They are rhetorical because we know the answer already.  We have given you the answer time and again.  You just refuse to listen.

Every day across this country, thousands upon thousands of Americans, some responsible, some not so much, take their firearms to shooting ranges and fire those weapons.  Millions of cartridges are expended.  High capacity magazines are used and reused.  Fully automatic and semi automatic rifles are shot.  Some guns with pistol grips and barrel shrouds.  Some are benign and some are black and scary looking.  Ammunition designed to pierce body armor and sub sonic ammo is fired.  But do you know what absolutely NEVER happens at those shooting ranges?  Mass executions.  Do you know why?  Because it would be foolhardy at best to walk into an area where every soul is armed and start pointing a weapon at people.  In fact, it has generally been my experience that folks at the gun range are all extraordinarily polite to each other.  It doesn’t take a whole lot of common sense to understand the folly of picking a fight with a person holding a loaded gun in their hand.  Yet, according to the arguments put forth by the liberal gun control advocates, these places should be littered with corpses on a daily basis, yet they are not.

The military uses the term “soft target”.  It’s defined as “A person or thing that is relatively unprotected or vulnerable.”  Every mass shooting execution in the last several years have one thing in common.   They all happened at soft target locations.  Just about every single successful attacker commits his crime in “Gun Free Zones”.  They do this because they know that there will not be anyone there with the capacity to stop them.  Gun free zones have been created across this country as “common sense gun control” with the intent of making people feel safe.  When in reality it is creating a danger zone for those very people.  All they successfully do is disarm the people who would have the capacity to defend themselves and others in a violent situation.  Congratulations, your common sense gun control laws just created a bunch of soft targets for these psychopaths.

When these psychopaths strike, the reaction from the media is swift.  My television has been lit up for hours now with “Mass shooting” and “Gun Control” stories.  If you have not been paying attention, let me clue you in on something.  Every one of these psychopaths who have left behind some kind of manifesto, have all cited a common thread:  They ALL wanted the attention given to the killers that struck before them.  So much so, that they repeatedly cite them by name.  If you want to know what is causing it, just turn to the media.  We are giving these people exactly what they desire; Story after story about the incident. By giving these animals the notoriety they desire, and showing it to the world, you are only creating future killers from the pool of psychopaths who are watching you glorify these idiots.  Who is to blame? Easy, the media, combined with your common sense gun control laws- end of story.  Your gun control is contributing to the problem, not preventing it. 

I saw an article recently that made the claim, that the notion that only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun, was hogwash.  Their logic was that they never hear about this happening.  The reality is that it happens EVERY single day in this country.  I see it every day, posted on low key websites.  Stories about armed citizens stopping criminals from committing a crime.  Here is the difference:  Media outlets do not publish those stories.  It does not fit their liberal agenda.  An agenda that includes making sure you follow your new vegetarian diet.  The media is canonizing the criminals and ignoring the heroes that actually do manage to stop them.  Then has the audacity to wonder why we never hear about it. When they do publish those stories, half the time they don't even mention the heroes name.  In Warren Michigan last month, an armed customer at a bank stopped a bank robber in his tracks.  The Washington Times posted less than an entire paragraph about it, and never cited the hero by name. 

These kind of criminal mass shootings are a relatively modern phenomenon. But guns have been around for centuries. So why is it happening?  It’s happening because the media makes instant celebrities of these criminals, so that they can use the story to push their agenda to disarm the common citizen. All the while, creating more soft targets and future criminals.   So how do we stop it?  You will never legislate crime away.  If you think that banning guns in this country will solve the problem, think again.  Even the liberals in Washington have the common sense to understand that attempting to ban guns would most likely result in a civil uprising. You will also never be able to fully prevent animals from committing violent acts.  The option we are left with is to be prepared to protect ourselves. If you want this crap to stop, then we need to start educating ourselves, and our children about firearms, how to use them responsibly, and how to defend ourselves with them.  This is something that all of our great grandfathers did before us, and they didn’t have these problems.  You have the right to chose not to do that.  But you have no right whatsoever to tell me that I can’t.  Now pass the pot roast, I’m sick of these vegetables.