Dismantling the Mouthbreather in Chief's Gun Policies

[mzmadmike]

The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

Meaning "nothing."  This is supposed to already exist.  The mass of the

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[septithol]

Mike, first of all, as someone with nasal problems that causes me to have to breath through my mouth most of the time (oddly enough my nose clears up when I am running, go figure), and who dislikes the idiocy of gun control, I resent the term 'mouthbreather' to describe our asshole-in-chief.

Secondly, I think I have figured out what is wrong with most people. The majority of Americans today have a type of thinking which I would describe as 'magical', except a friend of mine corrected me on that, and said no serious magical practioner would think that way. So perhaps a better adjective would be to describe the thought processes of most Americans as *infantile*. An infant throws a tantrum, and milk magically appears. An infant throws another tantrum, and a scary looking object from their room is hurriedly taken away by an adult.

In the past, at some point, adults stopped giving this instantaneous gratification to children when they reached a certain age, but nowadays, parents keep treating their children in an infantile fashion until they are 18. Such as a recent experience of mine, a friend of mine who is a music teacher got fired. For attempting to do his job and having the audacity to suggest to a student that since his face was growing (caused by a thing called puberty) it might improve his trumpet playing if he switched to a different mouthpiece.

Student immediately went home and cried to his parents. "Wah! Mean old teacher says my trumpet playing isn't perfect! Mean old teacher is trying to make me do things I don't want to do, like using a different mouthpiece on my trumpet!"

The parents (being just as infantile themselves) went to the school board and threw a tantrum of their own, until the board agreed to give them their instantaneous gratification and fired the teacher.

There is a big problem with retaining this infantile desire for instantaneous, complete, gratification, to adulthood. It requires a fairly large support structure. In infants, this support structure comes from the parents, or other nearby adults. This doesn't work so well with adults, if you have 300 million adults, in a country, how are you going to provide the support structure to provide ALL of them with instantaneous gratification? Either you will have to pick which ones get the gratification, at the expense of the rest, (which doesn't work real well, since the 'rest' are equally infantile, and expect gratification themselves, not providing it to others) or else somehow force people in other countries to provide the gratification for the infantile people in your own country (which also doesn't work very well, sooner or later it will start a war).

Anyway, how this infantile behavior relates to the demands for gun control, is that babyish people refuse to acknowlege that maniacs exist in the world, and there is nothing the government can do to prevent them from trying to kill others. If you refuse to acknowlege that ATTEMPTS at mass murder simply can't be 100% prevented, then you will throw a tantrum at any solution (such as arming people) that acknowlege that such attempts as murder will sometimes occur, and try to find a way of stopping them when they do occur. Instead, the infantile people demand that the government 'somehow' prevent all attempts at mass murder, like a baby demanding that it's parents remove a scary toy it is frightened of, from it's nursery. Rather than telling people to grow up (which might cost him votes), Obama is handing them a pacifier. It accomplishes nothing, but it shuts baby up.