DEFINITIVE ANSWER - AT 5:32 P.M. ET:  We now have a definitive answer as to what caused the Fort Hood massacre.  The answer comes from that well-known philosopher and expert in violence prevention, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago.  We appreciate the mayor coming forward and finally settling this.  His answer - please takes notes - is that it was all caused by guns.  From Big Government:

“Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.” 

The Mayor is using a straw-man argument that conveniently provides him with an opportunity to politicize the terrorist attack as part and parcel with America’s love of guns.

Mayor Daley, and other politicians, like to blame gun violence on the guns themselves because that is so much easier than admitting any inconvenient (politically incorrect) truths which might be revealed if they were to place blame where it belongs.

There are many, many people who'd like to sweep Fort Hood under a big rug, the way they have swept the whole idea of global jihad under the rug.  It doesn't fit the party line, it doesn't fit the trendiness of multiculturalism.  It doesn't fit the world of the sixties crowd that now runs many of our institutions.  It's just too much of a pain.

November 10, 2009