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Pat Powers does not know what he is talking about

Pat Powers has again decided to personally attack me and insists that the driving issue behind the Newtown shootings is "mental illness":

The debate is not about guns, video games, knives, pointy sticks, or in Steve’s case, ancient crossbows.

It’s about mental illness, and recognizing and treating those who are a danger to society.

The shooter's "personality disorder" was Asperger's, which is not linked to violence:

Dr. Hilleary Rockwell is a Pediatrician in Jacksonville and says signs of any disorder on the autism spectrum can be detected as early as one or one and half years old, but violent behavior is not a link to the syndrome.

"People with Asperger's generally are not violent, they're not a problem, a dangerous person to interact with they may just not respond socially in a way that you would think would be standard," says Dr. Rockwell.

Still, after some Newtown shooting reports said the shooter may have had mental health issues, such as Asperger's or autism, some in the community were alarmed.  

"People with Asperger's aren't going to be doing this kind of thing, this is not something that's expected to see someone with Asperger's doing and I think if you look at most people in the country over the decade that we've had mass shootings they don't have Asperger syndrome," says Dr. Rockwell.

And not everybody who owns an AR-15 (over 3 million of the brand used by the shooter have been sold) go into a elementary school and kill children. And not everybody who plays violent video games go a a suicidal murder rampage. The discussion needs to turn to "influences" and how can we reduce those influences. We also have to understand that this happened in a school where guns are banned. Escalating gun bans is illogical. When we have a culture that trained to view the Bible in a negative way and instead promotes violence as the solution in media and video games, then the need to protect ourselves is much greater. The constitution provides us with the right to defend ourselves. We are not going to solve this problem. The solution will be the return of Jesus Christ. But until then we can reduce shootings by reversing the cultural trends that attack the Bible, entertainment's rewarding violence, and the Cultural Marxist's attack on males, whites, and patriarchal Christianity. In America, we are given the natural right to defend ourselves from evil actions. That right has been taken away from teachers. If we truly want to make our schools safer, then we need to restore the constitutional and natural right to carry firearms for law abiding teachers and staff.

Newtown, an America where Bibles are banned and evil is promoted

This element of the Newtown shootings is hardy even touched by the media in America:

The 20-year-old gunman was said to have been addicted to violent lifelike video battle games that he played at the large suburban home where he lived alone with his mother, the first victim of his shooting spree.

So Bibles are banned in our schools while kids learn how to kill with computer simulators. Why are we surprised when a 20-year-old takes his battle to a gun-free zone, wher he is assured of raking up the most points? Sadly, gun bans prevent teachers form protecting themselves and fellow citizens, including children, from this evil recipe. And all the media and the Obama left can talk about is the need to disarm the rest of us in order to prevent such evil acts from happening again.

In a postmodern world where there is no absolutes, what is insane and what is not is determined by either the state or the majority. In America, the media forms attitudes, that when become more than 50%, result in powers given to the state. For those of us you add truth to the equation, we see through the irrationality of this world and understand that it is a world that has killed God that is the source of insanity that reared its ugly head in Newtown.

Due to the irrational media, one who argues that the solution is to put guns into the hands of teachers until enough of America has grown up with Bibles in their hands, is considered the nut case by the majority who has the power to something about such people. The indoctrinated majority will insist that the state take away our freedoms, and not let gun nuts have their way any longer. The postmodern world wants to remove objects that can be used to carry out the evil reality that it is inculcating. What the irrational mind fails to understand is that the state will be the exclusive holders of the objects that can be used to carry out evil ways. All we need to do is look at the millions killed during the 20th century due to power that the people allowed to be centralized into totalitarian regimes. Who said, if you don't learn from history, we are going to repeat it?

UPDATE: More UK reporting that you will not see much of in the America media that is protecting the reputation of the state's "sacred" schools:

Adam Lanza belonged to a technology club at Newtown High School that held computer gaming parties.

UDPATED: Details from another UK report:

Chillingly, his favourite video game was said to be a shockingly violent fantasy war game called Dynasty Warriors which is thought to have given him inspiration to act on his darkest thoughts.