Friday, April 12, 2013

Effective Victimology 101

Newtown families: Victims turn lobbyists

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this article.
Political operatives like Bennett of Third Way finally showing their elitist ruling class prejudice.

The Newtown families, are rich, well educated and articulate--so their children matter a whole lot more than those black babies being shot up in Chicago--you know the ones with mothers on crack and non -existent fathers. The same ones the leftists have used to push their communist agenda.

Unknown said...

The most grievous thing a human can do is bury their child. The Sandy Hook parents have received the condolences of a nation. Their continual push for basic rights revocation attacks on good people is beginning to border on lunacy. Admission that the newly-proposed gun grabbing would have had no effect on the Sandy Hook murders is almost universal. Twenty-six murders are terrible; mostly because this event has the potential to bring about the type of disarmament that allowed governments to slaughter over 200 MILLION in the shameful Twentieth Century. Sandy Hook grievants, it's time for you to either educate and inform yourselves as to what you may bring about, or sit down and shut the fuck up! Stop projecting the guilt you feel (for not insisting that someone at your child's school be equipped to intercede against an armed killer)onto millions of well-aware law-abiding gun owners who have never harmed anyone, and who would most likely put themselves in harm's way to protect your child if needed.

Crotalus said...

To Newtown: Sorry. All out of sympathy.

Anonymous said...

Too clean. Too "rehearsed." More stories that lead one to believe that Newtown was a government-staged event, with everything in place for their agenda. It's a Stepford event, and works right into the Obama plan to do away with the 2nd Amendment, and the Constitution.

Anonymous said...

As much as I opposed Ted Kennedy's anti-gun agenda I still understood the reasons behind it. His loss of his two older brothers to assassins was something that should happen to no man. Sarah Brady, Carolyn McCarthy and others are driven to disarm America as a result of similar tragedies. But as much as I try to understand their motivation, when I see the Newtown victims' families with Chuck Schumer, I have to ask myself: "who is being used by whom?"

Anonymous said...

Sympathy for those who would not and could not protect their children and placed them in the care of others who were prohibited from protecting them?

... and now allow themselves to be used as political cannon-fodder in a battle designed to deny other parents and child minders the use of effective protection ...

The well of sympathy dries up after considering that!

As the tiny victims were victims largely because their parents and the politicians allowed them to be victimised.

Not one step further!

III

Anonymous said...

Not surprising the Newtown, CT "victim count" consists overwhelmingly of "progressives" . having failed - despite ample evidence/example - to protect their own they now are demanding far more than a "pound of flesh" from every gun owner across the nation in retribution. >Jeff

Ed said...

Unfortunately, they families and politicians are completely missing the most important issue - the horrendous state of mental health care in the United States. Just a few days ago a Texas community college student stabbed multiple people in the head and neck with a small utility knife, fulfilling a fantasy that he has had for several years. He finally acted out on the fantasy. I do not see a call for the banning of small utility knives to prevent another occurrence from someone else.

So how do you promote safety and ensure that more mass violence events do not happen again? You can not ensure this. People are determined to be a hazard to themselves or others AFTER they have exhibited dangerous behavior to themselves or others. Even then, our mental health system depends on out-patients being voluntarily compliant with their prescribed psychotropic medications, with uneven results. The only logical solution to the problem is to admit that anyone and everyone is suspect, and that no place is completely safe (such as Marines escorting the POTUS at the inauguration with bolt-less rifles and armed Secret Service agents watching other armed Secret Service agents). For the most of us, that means that the government needs to drop the illusion of providing for our safety and to stop getting in our way with laws that only make us less safe.