Ed Morrissey:
Even the emerging pattern of transgender mass shooters fits into this paradigm. The Queer Movement is entirely about nihilism -- tearing down reality and "normal" to replace it with unreality and emotion-driven hallucination. Transgenders refuse to accept biology and demand to have their fantasy life validated by others. Socialists and Marxists claim that the brutal regimes that rose and fell on that ideology were utopias rather than impoverished hellholes. Anarchists want a world without any authority, when the historic results of such environments are that the most brutal subjugate those around them, and so on. (Heck, just take a look at the CHAZ experiment in Seattle, the George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, and the cities that tried to "defund the police" for evidence supporting that conclusion.)
We have always had firearms. What's new is the nihilism, the despair, and the way we treat the maladjusted by catering to their fantasies rather than requiring them to adjust to reality. Not all of these will be violent, but as we have seen, they are more likely to become violent when they fail to escape the misery of their failed fantasies.
# posted by Ranger @ 5:27 PM
