Poverty: a new category for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)/caption
You have people who are... whose poverty is such that it creates a mental illness and its just not being addressed (in Washington D.C.) Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy on WMALs Mornings on the Mall (June 27 2016)
Progressives masquerading as journalists these days have go-to narratives to explain away criminality. First they irrationally (and relentlessly) blame the inanimate objectthe gunnot its user. Of this Courtland Milloys To black kids living amid violence it matters little who fires a gun" (July 13 2016) is typical. Actually hes completely wrong. There is a world of difference between appropriately armed white hat elements (the police legal gun owners the military) of our society versus chaos-causing wrongdoers.
As an example last June four ski mask-wearing young men robbed eight retirees at the Hillcrest Recreational Center tennis courts of money credit cards and jewelry. It was broad daylight multiple guns were used and three of the four were teens of similar ages as the victims grandchildren. Hypothetically if the elders had been legally armed this assault might have been prevented (or evened the odds.) After all criminals (as Democratic politicians) sensibly fear an armed population. Realistically as police cant be everywhere this dynamic actively discourages crime and protects innocents (no matter their skin color).
Mr. Milloy aptly observes Thats the robbery not just surreal. Its appalling." Indeed where are the fathers of these lost boys to teach them safe and proper conduct? (Put simply right from wrong.) Recall that Democratic welfare programs have provided (for more than half a century) an economic incentive to single mother households. Hence generations of fatherless boys running wild in minority communities. (Who else but they engage in all too common D.C. neighborhood shootouts? Does Mr. Milloy believe this dangerous activity is being perpetrated by law-abiding citizens or thrill-seeking cops?) Make no mistake LBJs progressive policies have destroyed the black nuclear family unitand with it virtually any chance of upward (capitalistic) economic mobility.
Now spinning himself silly this Washington Post scribbler comes full circle with his laughable claim that poverty causes mental illness. (A whole new category for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)!) Interestingly mental defect is the exact excuse this fop used to rationalize the barbaric actions of Omar Mateen (the ISIS-inspired Orlando mass murder of 49). What if some in the crowd at Pulse had legal guns strapped to their hips? Innocent lives would have very likely been spared. Guns in responsible handsfor the preservation of lifeis the reason for the Second Amendment. Thats not something dishonest men of Mr. Milloys ilk will ever address. Its easier to make a cushy living promoting fictions in weekly columns populated by bogeymen: American intolerance" and gun-totting racists and sickos.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.