A Case of Projection

Originally, I was simply going to point this out, and maybe make a new category "Idiots on Guns", but I'm having fun here.

Guns and Masculinity

Jack LeMoult
Guest Columnist

This guy is something else.

A gun is like a pair of elevator shoes. It confers artificial stature. Despite the strong silent image that men would like to project, the truth is that most men are emotionally frail aggregations of self-doubt and vulnerability.

He's right, here's proof!. I have to give him props on the "elevator shoes" thing, though. That's a new one. Oh, and girls like guns, too. At least in the real world.

The possession of a gun is like a tonic, adding an exhilarating sense of power to a sagging ego.

It also adds inches to your manhood! Smilin' Bob has nothing on gun owners.

In another column, he writes

The history of tyrannical nations is one that includes the banning of abortion. Although the liberal Weimar Republic in Germany loosened the laws against abortion between the two world wars, when the Nazis came to power they promptly enacted strict anti-abortion laws. After the Nazis overran France, the collaborationist Vichy government enacted harsh anti-abortion laws along with other laws aimed at limiting the freedom of women

Hey, Jack. Substitute "abortion" with "guns" and you'd have another true statement.

Back to the column in question, he writes:

I would require written applications for licenses by all persons seeking to buy handguns. I would require a two-week waiting period. The purchasers would have to show compelling reasons for needing handguns, such as occupations as private detectives or security guards. They would have to recite their medical and psychiatric histories. They would have to list references. Gun licenses, like drivers licenses, should be subject to renewal every four years with the same background checks as the original licenses.

Of course, in his mind, the right to an abortion is ok, the right to a gun is not. Tyrannical, indeed.

Here's Jack and his opinion of students in America:

Putting handguns in the hands of any students in America who wanted them might have stopped the VT gunman, but it would have also armed thousands of other paranoid schizophrenics who harbor rages similar to those of [the Virginia Tech shooter].

So, in a nut (no pun intended) shell, gun owners are all male. Most all men are weak little pansies. And students are paranoid-schitzos with rage issues.

I doubt there's any way to reason with a guy like this. His fear and loathing of himself and his fellow man is much too strong. I wonder if he's even able to leave his house.

(all emphasis mine)

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