So the sicko responsible for the recent Minnesota school shooting has been identified as some trannie or other. Most notable about this sorry tale has been the response from both sides of the political debate.
To the Left, of course, it’s all about eeevil gunsgunsguns and How They Should All Be Banned.
To the non-Left, is just another example of how the Great Trannie Craze has unhinged kids’ minds.
I’m indifferent to both camps. Of course, the “Bans Guns Now!” bullshit doesn’t work for me for all the usual reasons (stop me if you’ve heard them all before): gun bans don’t work because evil people will always find a way to get them, and a universal gun ban would be impossible to implement and/or enforce, etc.
I’m also scornful of the “Trannie-ism Poisons Minds” mantra. I mean, yes it might well do that — and there seems to be an awfully high percentage of recent mass shootings / stabbings recently committed by trannies, despite the efforts of the police and Leftists to disguise the trend — but the simple fact of the matter is that the cause of mental illness is largely irrelevant. Some asshole might go on a spree because his girlfriend just left him, because he can’t get a girlfriend (the “incel” syndrome), because he recently got fired by the company where he ended up playing his reindeer games, because the victims are part of a group he hates, because a black dog told him to do it… or just because it was Thursday.
The reasons for the atrocity, therefore, are less important than the outcome of the the thing: innocent people got killed or wounded by some sick asshole. And looked at clinically, the weapons used (guns, knives, bombs, whatever) are largely irrelevant: whatever the tool selected, bad things happened.
Everyone seems to be obsessed with discovering the motive of the sicko, when in fact the motive is irrelevant: whatever drove the male/female/combination mass murderer to go all Texas Tower on innocent people, there’s not a whole lot we as a society can do about it.
And that’s the tragedy of the thing. Bodyguards all over the place — whether the Secret Service, police or Rent-A-Cops — will tell you that the hardest situation to prepare for is the Random Sicko because he gets to pick the victim(s), the place and the time.
As I see it, the only way one can try to prevent the mass shooting/stabbing/clubbing event is to be alert, be prepared and to be armed — whether as individuals carrying a gun, or by extension as an organization employing an armed security service. It may not be possible to prevent the atrocity, but it may be possible to contain it.
It really sucks that a Catholic school such as the one in Minneapolis should have to do the latter just to safeguard the children it’s looking after, and it sucks that I should have to carry a gun and three magazines to the supermarket on every visit, but that seems to be the way of the world these days.