Control and punishment: “Those who have sought the most in gun control have sought the least in the punishment of criminals.”

Guns and gummint: “Since independence in the fourteenth century, the Swiss have been required to keep and bear arms, and since 1515, have had a policy of armed neutrality. Its form of government is similar to the one set up by our Founders — a weak central government exercising few, defined powers having to do mostly with external affairs and limited authority over internal matters at the canton (state) and local levels.” Which is from:Benedict D. LaRosa, Gun Control: A Historical Perspective, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 49 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997) You may ask what does Benedict LaRosa know about it? Rather, ask yrself if this rings true, and remember, the truth shall make you free.

Your two cents, please.

It’s all here, blow by blow, no cringing or feeling bad about mainstream media treatment, taking well-aimed sock at Hollywood with its parade of gore.

Armed guards in every school, NRA the one to plan this out.

That and more, all of it blogged by Wall St. Journal’s Washington Wire.

From Anna Williams at First Thoughts/First Things:

Continuing the debate over fertility and decadence that Matthew Schmitz has mentioned on this blog, Samuel Goldman suggests that underlying the low birth rates of wealthy nations is not just selfishness but a very high estimation of the requirements of parenting. The occasion for his post is a report on the low birthrate of Germany. Goldman writes:

While Germans expect relatively small personal and social benefits from childbearing, they see childrearing as an extremely intensive activity. That makes family a low-reward, high-investment arrangement. With these attitudes, its no wonder that they have few children.

As father of six perfect children, I think this lady makes a good point or two. Read the rest.

Them before Scripture:

Once again to the preaching issue. Sermons have been homilies for some time now. Trouble with homilies, they teeter everlastingly on the brink of being lectures with a smiley face — about who wrote what no matter what you heard before this (DON’T WANNA HEAR IT!), local politics of 3,000 years ago (GOT ENOUGH OF THAT WHERE I LIVE!), and how people baked bread on open fires or grew corn or washed themselves with spikenard (TRAVELOGS IN ANCIENT EGYPT OR AMONG THE GALATIANS ARE NOT MY CHOICE ON SUNDAY MORNING!).

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Test on which blacks and hispanics do poorly are bad tests, says Fedl Judge Kimba Wood, who has her eye now on tests for becoming a judge, or we do anyhow.

From: Mike Fahy

Do you remember when a PanAm stewardess was put through a woodchipper by her Eastern Airlines husband? That horrific November 1986 “woodchipper murder” was committed in Newtown, Connecticut. Yet this weekend’s news stories paint Newtown as a quiet, pristine, crimeless community.

The wealthy stewardess and her pilot-husband lived in a Newtown ranch home with their three children and au pair. She was murdered in her bedroom, stuffed into a freezer purchased for the occasion, then woodchipped into the river running through Newtown at 3:30 a.m. during a blizzard. Only two-thirds of an ounce of her body was ever recovered. The three-year investigation, hung-jury trial, and conviction trial made forensic examiner Henry Lee famous before he became a television star at the O.J. Simpson acquittal. The pilot-husband (with mental issues) will be released from prison in nine years.

Newtown’s Crazy Adam Lanza may have been taking the anti-psychotic drug Fanapt (iloperidone) which can have side effects including delusional and suicidal thoughts and self-inflicted wounds. During the past year, Adam Lanza was occasionally burning himself with a cigarette lighter. His mother, Nancy Lanza, never talked about his insanity. Marsha Lanza of Crystal Lake, Illinois says her nephew, the murderer, had “learning issues,” but his mother never talked about “behavioral issues.” Nancy Lanza was not as secretive about disparaging her ex-husband, Peter Lanza. She was awarded the Newtown mansion, a quarter million dollars annually in alimony, and Red Sox season tickets. Less than a week before her violent death, Nancy Lanza admitted that her son Adam “was getting worse.” But she did nothing about it.

A generation ago, Crazy Lanza would have been placed in a mental health facility. But the state closed Newtown’s large Fairfield Hills Psychiatric Hospital in 1995. This year Newtown has been debating what should be done with that expansive hospital real estate. Maybe they should use it for the graves of those 28 who would still be alive if Crazy Lanza had been institutionalized.

Since 1950, with only one exception, all mass murders (three or more victims) using bullets have occurred in venues where guns are banned. Private schools where a gun is kept by a teacher, administrator, guard, or custodian have never been targeted by the likes of Crazy Lanza. The Joker murderer in Aurora, Colorado had seven theaters in his area showing that midnight movie; he chose the only theater that banned guns. Air Force officers in that targeted theater had to leave their sidearms in their automobiles. Our societal guardrails have been torn down.

With a complete disregard of the facts, political gun-grabbers will now be leveraging their one-size-fits-all panacea of banning the instrumentality rather than preventing the evil.

Mike Fahy
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Can’t let Bloomberg steal a march on him.