Cartoons are terrorism - How we got here

This is not good.  Webcomic artist Matt Boyd was discussing buying a .22 bolt-action target rifle with a co-worker at his day job.  He specifically mentioned, with a bit of a sarcastic snark, that choosing such a rifle would make it damn hard to kill someone, it was expressly to plink at paper targets, so no one had anything to worry about.

Only some biddy, or group of nosey busybodies, decided there was something to worry about, complained, and Matt was fired.  Police showed up to check him out and everything.  It seems his jokes in the webcomic were taken as terroristic threats.  What.  The.  Hell?

So how’d we get here? 

Thank you favorite gun control advocate.  30 years of demonizing guns and gun owners has led us to this.  The Violence Policy Center, the Brady Campaign...they’re the biggest contributing factor here in my humble opinion. 

Thank your favorite lawyer.  A hundred-plus years of lawsuits for any and every little irritating thing has led us to this. 

Thank your favorite Human Resources officer.  50 years of bastardizing the useful (and needed) rules and laws about sexual harassment, then turning it into a ruthless campaign of attempting to eliminate virtually any and all natural human interaction in the workplace has led us to this.

Most importantly, thank your favorite Democrat politician.  In order to get elected, they’ve been simplifying these issues, reducing them to “with us or against us” (the irony!), demonizing anyone who doesn’t agree (on both sides of the aisle), and pushing for more and more and more governmental control over the whole mess.  They coddle the lawyers, they despise the gun owners, they turn good ideas into a quagmire of workplace etiquette that feels no more natural to a human than the set of an old episode of Star Trek.  They don’t do it to help you...they do it to get elected and stay elected, simple as that.

Oh, Democrats get help from plenty of Republicans too...take George Bush for example.  He’s no friend to gun owners.  He’s no fan of reducing the number of hoops one must jump through just to get through the day.  He’s no fan of reducing the...enthusiasm...with which law enforcement responds to nay given situation.  He’s no champion of personal responsibility.

This all comes full-circle back to what is wrong with this country - we all want our nanny to take care of every tiny little thing that brings us the slightest discomfort.  We can’t just let things go anymore.  We can’t laugh anything off, or use sound judgment to determine that someone isn’t a threat.  We just don’t use common sense anymore.  We’ve gotten so used to the government, or the HR department, or the cops or anyone else taking care of everything that we’re no longer able to do it ourselves.  Bad day?  Take a pill.  Offended by something?  File a lawsuit.  Don’t like some part of the culture?  Get a law passed that outlaws it.

We have too much help in avoiding life, and not enough help in learning how to deal with living in a society that is immensely diverse.  There’s another one...diversity.  To me, that means variety, with distinct differences that are celebrated and enjoyed.  To others it means crushing any sense of individuality until we all think and look and talk the same.  Diversity is not homogeneity.

I suppose ultimately I’m saying we’re no longer a nation of adventurers and builders and discoverers and dreamers.  We’re now a nation of simpering, sniveling pussycats who cry every time a dog walks by.  We chose this life and now we’re stuck with it.

Or are we?  Can we fix this before we end up like ancient Rome?

Posted by JimK at 04:59 PM on May 05, 2007
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