Boortz’s Great Advice Falls on Dumb Ears
Neal Boortz has apparently offended someone. Imagine that.
Last week the syndicated radio talk show host, columnist and senior puddin’ stick found himself squarely in the crosshairs (am I allowed to say that?) of about a gazillion left-leaning advocacy groups because he dared to suggest that it was time to eradicate some brutal ruffians and assassins.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Boortz’s well-articulated diatribe was worded in a slightly different manner. He actually said, and I quote:
“Carjackings, violence, people getting shot. It’s ridiculous. This city harbors an urban culture of violence…. we don’t care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here’s some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.
“This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I’ll tell you what it’s gonna take. You people, you are — you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city.”
While certain sensitive individuals rate Boortz’s comments as “racist,” “offensively boorish” and (I love this one) “inciting violence,” I look at the comments in the same way I would a weather report.
Rain is coming. Get an umbrella. Use it.Makes sense to me.
Most of the detractors immediately seized on the notion that Boortz was singling out minorities for some kind of vigilante justice, but, upon closer inspection, it is clear that he was urging crime victims (those would be the people who are in the process of being carjacked or shot at) to become proactive when it comes to self defense. Try as I might, I could not find a reference to anyone’s ethnicity, just their hideous behavior.
He tells us to arm ourselves, get trained to use said arms, and then, in the event that you have a brutal ruffian or an assassin (which is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of “thug”) stick a gun in your face, use that training to send said criminal home to Jesus.Or wherever such animals go when they are shot in the nose.
I understand times are tough, and I certainly know that there are grown people whose desperation and hunger are inspiring episodes of shoplifting and theft that they would likely never have the nerve to attempt in better times, but when you choose to put a deadly weapon in another human being’s face in order to take from them what is lawfully theirs, I don’t believe most rational adults would have a problem with dispatching that criminal right where he stands.
I am not one of these people who feels the need to shoot car burglars or property vandals who are caught in the act, but if there is an individual who is willing to use deadly force to terrorize innocent victims as they steal from them, I have no problem with a societal policy that states loudly and clearly that we want those thugs “DRT” (a Boortz shorthand for “dead right there”).
Why not?
The alternative is to announce to said scumbags the following:
“We apologize to you poor felonious souls who are seeking to liberate us at gunpoint from the spoils of our hideously unfair capitalistic endeavors. Please feel free to make off with what you need, and we pledge to behave during our brief face-to-face encounters like the true sheep we all aspire to become. May God (or whatever deity you cherish) be with you and protect you as you make your way through the world.”
To hell with that.
It is time to either fight back, and be proud in the effort, or bend over and get ready for the invasion. But, as those who have lived to tell the story are sad to report, the bad guys keep coming back as long as you are bent over, and Astroglide is nowhere in their vocabulary.You Might Also Like:
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