PoliticsUSA: Gun control after another massacre: Alan Keyes provides a cautionary analysis

Alan Keyes, former USA ambassador, goes out on a limb of iron logic to throw contrastive light upon the two main bodies of opinion now convulsing America after the nutcase massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut.  That unparalleled hellish event was the outcome of the lack of treatment for the intensely negative psychodynamics of a pathetic mother and son.  She tawt him to shoot, insisted he was crazy, and regularly left the gun closet unlocked.  This was not the case of a single psychotic, this was the case of a mother-son duo gone off the track beyond repair, all unnoticed as to the real parameters of the dysfunctionality.  The mother shoud never have been given employment in the school; she shoud have been denied pity by those of her colleagues she had conditioned to accept her as not dangerous, while her son was dangerous (again, but she left the gun closet unlocked).

Beyond the usual nutcase mass murderers, however, Keyes dares to take us into a comparative analysis of general conditions in the last 200 hundred years regarding the disarming of populations out of a misguided trust in the state.  As Ambassador Keyes points out, it was the leftists in this last century who were most adamant about the prospect of disarming of populations when totalitarians came into power.  There was no defence available when, as Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller' told us, "first they came for the Communists, then they came for the Jews, then they came for the Lutheran dissidents" but already there were no others prepared and able to defend them.  Finally, a Lutheran theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was able to connect with weapons in the attempt to assassinate Hitler.  He himself thus became a martyr.  It was a brazen squirrelly operation, because the time had long come and gone for other options within the public of the nation.  The population had voted Hitler into office, and had already been disarmed.  Today, the electorate can't see any sagacious horizon of responsibility were conditions swiftly and drastically to change beyond our mere ballot box and the hate-filled political campaigns and fraudulent shenanigans prior to voting.  Ambassador Alan Keyes has a more sagacious horizon, at least on this issue of gun control.

I think my fellow Americans are foolish if they don't make the broad analysis of the lines of comparison that Keyes has made.  I think the proposal to place police officers in classrooms is not off-the-wall or "unthinkable."  I think some control of who can purchase a weapon, and its registration, and limitation on types of weapon available to the public, all these options simply have to be considered.  The present debate is too emotional, too anti-intellectual, often hysterical, and mostly unacceptable.

— Politicarp, refWrite Frontpage politics newspotter, analyst, columnist


Shay Riley's Booker Rising (Jan13,2k13)

Alan Keyes cautionary analysis 
of the new wave for gun control

The conservative activist opines: "It's passing strange that these days, when so many of the folks most determined to eviscerate the Second Amendment are leftists, people pretend to be ignorant of this lesson [about guns and power]. It was certainly not lost on people like Mao Zedong and Che Guevara, whom many of the leftists unaccountably admire. In America, the British forces bent on tyranny found themselves swimming in a sea of trouble: a body politic replete with armed antibodies, ready to respond to violent abusers of government power with deadly effect."

Mr. Keyes continues his commentary: "Are Americans willing to let themselves be stampeded toward this horrific fate [of being helpless against government power, after government monopolizes lawful possession of arms]? Elitist faction politicians and henchmen in the media are cold-bloodedly exploiting individual episodes of random violence to inflame public passion against the general possession of arms that has been characteristic of the American people. But the right of the people to keep and bear arms is indispensable if they are to deter the systematic, government-sponsored violence which history shows to be incomparably more deadly than any and all such episodes. Over the course of many years, episodic violence by random individuals may claim the lives of thousands. But in the episodes of unchecked tyranny that haunt and overshadow the modern history of humanity, governments have murdered scores of millions, in a tsunami of murderous slaughter without parallel in previous eras. When modern would-be tyrants undertake the general disarmament of the people, they sow the killing fields from which to reap this massive crop of horrors."

He ain't done just yet: "For people thus easily convinced that they cannot be trusted with the deadly power of arms will soon be persuaded that they have no right to control the power of government, which includes, by necessity, control over arms in their most organized and destructive form. So, in the end, by inducing Americans to accept the abrogation of their right to keep and bear arms, our would-be tyrants prepare the people to endure the abdication of their constitutional sovereignty."