"Screw you!" she exclaimed. "You think we don't care about the
children? You're the one who won't do anything about the mentally ill."
Does Ann Coultergeist know anything about Reagan's closing of the state mental
institutions in California while governor? I think not. Then again, a rant for
the sake of publicity coming from her is usually groundless.
The "Screw You!" was done specifically to promote Coulter's new
fill-in-the-blanks book "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From The Seventies To
Obama" on Sean Hannity's FOX program.
It's interesting to note that Amazon's listing of Coulter's book pairs it up
with Greg Gutfeld's The Joy Of Hate.
Screw You! Ann Coulter!!!
That's the reaction of much of the country to Coulter's scream, since answering
back the Coultergeist is a lesson infertility: her hard-as-steel ego is
impervious to reason, especially if it comes from anyone slightly liberal. The
biggest fault in her rant came when she said:
"The only way to enforce a universal -- the last 0.1 percent of guns that
are transferred by collectors and so on is to have universal gun
registration," she added. "Universal background check means universal
registration, universal registration means universal confiscation, universal
extermination. That is how it goes in history. Do not fall for universal
background checks."
The jump from registration to confiscation is the kicker, the pandering to
paranoia.
I often wonder why gun nuts and the NRA balk at registration and licensing of
guns like cars: cars are more lethal than guns in this country, but at least
drivers are required to have registration, pass a driver's test, get a license,
get plates and have insurance. So here's where Coulter's line of reasoning
falls apart: does universal car registration automatically mean universal
confiscation of cars? OK. Apples and oranges, you might say, but the fact of
the matter is that no one had ever even intimated that registration would be
used to confiscate guns. It's never, ever been discussed in Congress. Any
confiscation would be done under the aegis of a crime.
Paranoia wins out!
Anti-gun control paranoia has seldom listened to reason. Just read this short bit
of prose that promises to be as profound as a rock (emphasis mine)
I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself
for failing to be prepared.
I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a
sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they
love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
Police protection is an oxymoron.
Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime
after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take a
butt whoopin'.
"I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid." Right.
As a man who lived in one of the worst neighborhoods riddled with gang violence
for over five years, I can safely say that I never thought of carrying a gun -
ever. Paranoia never took hold. It did not take hold in the apartment building
where I lived (even though there were 6 homicides in front of it during those
years). We made our children as safe as possible (I started an after-school
program, keeping them inside and aiding their education), but never promoted
the paranoia that you see today in screams coming from the likes of the
Coultergeist.
Ann Coulter has been irrelevant for years. Sean Hannity has been irrelevant for
years. Only people who want to hear about paranoia listen to them.
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