Teaching Fear for Control - Shadow of the Gun

I grew up in household dominated by a Democrat (New Dealer) who had an irrational fear of guns. That changed slightly after the LA Riots of 1965. That changed for a lot of people when they discovered the Police were barely able to just protect themselves. But the irrational fear lingered.
The same attitude is manifest when Sarah Brady speaks about her FBI Agent father whom she emotionally believes protected her by his 'government given authority' and by his physically hiding his handgun from her. Her husband was sadly wounded by a crazy assassin (sounds familiar) using a gun, not by a gun using a crazy assassin. She has inverted her anger and irrational fear. This has been exploited by the left for Citizen Control disguised as Gun Control. m/r

This isn’t a precautionary attitude, but a pacifist one. Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority. Rather than teaching children to hate killers, schools are instead teaching them to hate guns.

Shadow of the Gun

Daniel Greenfield On March 14, 2013

Every day another one of the stories comes in. A teacher panicked by a plastic gun, an army man on a cupcake, a t-shirt, a pop tart chewed into the shape of a gun or a finger gun, hits the panic button. Suspensions and lectures quickly follow as the latest threat to the gun-free zone, usually in the form of a little boy, is tackled to the ground and lectured to within an inch of his life.

Tellingly these incidents rarely take place in the inner city schools where teenage gang members walk through metal detectors at the start of the day. The safety officers in those schools, big weary men with eyes that look everywhere at once, don’t waste their time on toys. Not unless those toys are full-size, painted black and filed down to look like real guns.

It’s usually the schools where a shooting is wholly unlikely; where gun violence is not a daily reality, but an unlikely convergence of horror, that institutional vigilance hits an irrational peak as every school imagines that it could be the next Columbine or the next Sandy Hook.

The NRA’s initial proposal of armed school guards was met with an irrational chorus of protests. More guns aren’t the answer, was the cry. And the leading crier was the White House’s expert skeet shooter. In a country where law enforcement is heavily armed and gunmen are stopped by gunmen in uniforms, a strange Swedenization had set in. The problem was not the man, it was the gun. Get rid of the guns and you stop the killing.

Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.  Gun-free zones mean places where guns cannot be mentioned, depicted or even symbolized as if the refusal to concede the existence of a firearm will eliminate the threat of it being used on the premises.

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