So, it appears that my last posting was not, in fact, written by Ron Paul. It was written by a staffer of his, in a newsletter with his name on it, without having been edited by him. But nevertheless. So we’ll just have to be happy with disliking him for all the other reasons that libertarians are poor choices.
In other news, a group of guys beat another group of guys at some sort of sport yesterday. This is apparently important to some people, so I thought I’d mention it.
An old stomping ground of mine got some inadvertent, second-hand press recently; the person responsible for the shootings at VA Tech apparently got some of his guns in Roanoke, VA. I believe it.
So, my reason for writing this is to wonder aloud, how long will it be (if it hasn’t already happened) before some politico somewhere uses this terrible event as a means to push through some god-awful agenda? Not that it would be easy, we’ve already had most of our civil liberties eroded due to the Patriot Act, but I’m sure some enterprising Big Brother-wannabe can come up with something we’ve still got and take it away “for the children!”
The other thing that’s a bit sickening about all this is the incessant search for blame. You see a lot of this whenever some young person does something; “Oh, he was in counselling, they should have known!” or “Oh, he wrote something disturbing, someone should have stopped him!” Yeah, see if thinking like this got through, I’d never have gotten out of high school without getting locked up. Also everyone would be, y’know, the same person. It’s all very Heathers if you ask me. So listen, the kid obviously needed some help. But there are something like 32,000 people at VA Tech. If you locked up every one of them that wrote a disturbing story, or needed mental health counselling, sure, you’d probably never again have a shooting, but you’d probably not have many students either.
So it goes.
