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Still, we were stunned by Mr. LaPierre’s mendacious, delusional, almost deranged rant. (NYT editorial, 12/21/2012)

The New York Times does not like what NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said yesterday. Here is some of what he said:

In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year.A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18. And throughout it all, too many in our national media … their corporate owners … and their stockholders … act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators. Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonize lawful gun owners, amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national debate with misinformation and dishonest thinking that only delay meaningful action and all but guarantee that the next atrocity is only a news cycle away. (Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, quoted on Breitbart.com, 12/20/2012)

Well, it doesn't exactly sound delusional to us, but perhaps delusion is in the eye of the beholder. Obviously the New York Times wants to keep the focus on guns and not the cultural rot that LaPierre (and RedStateVT) have emphasized. The Times is probably also annoyed at LaPierre's jabs at "media conglomerates." Anyway, we quickly went through the Times and here is what we found in a review of a book, a movie and a video game:

“We are seeing a transitional generation,” concludes Ms. (author Abbi) Glines, who started by publishing young-adult fiction and has slowly been adding steamier material as she has seen it drive up sales of her books. “They want a good narrative with the emotional intensity of teenagers, but they want sex, too.” (NYT, 12/21/2012)

“Jack Reacher” brings its hero to Pittsburgh, where a sniper has just shot down five innocent people, including a nanny accompanying a small child, in broad daylight. (NYT, 12/20/2012)

The game encourages players to resist employing the many creative methods of killing that it offers. You’re rewarded for the indirect approach: sneaking around corners, over roofs and through tunnels, and eavesdropping on characters who provide clues to your target’s whereabouts. But there’s nothing to stop you from making Corvo charge right through the front door and kill everyone in his path. There are many ways to accomplish each mission. Corvo can assassinate his enemies — or bystanders — with his blade, or he can choke them into unconsciousness with his hands. (NYT, 10/5/2012)

Tell us again, who is delusional?

And one more thing, Liberals quickly scoff at the idea of armed guards in schools while forgetting the following:

The idea of arming school security officers is not altogether new. Districts in cities including Albuquerque, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and St. Louis have armed officers in schools, either through relationships with local police departments or by training and recruiting their own staff members. (NYT, 12/21/2012)

In closing, we will turn to Charles Krauthammer (as we often do) for the wrap-up:

Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere.
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Unless you are prepared to confiscate all existing firearms, disarm the citizenry and repeal the Second Amendment, it’s almost impossible to craft a law that will be effective.
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We live in an entertainment culture soaked in graphic, often sadistic, violence. Older folks find themselves stunned by what a desensitized youth finds routine, often amusing. It’s not just movies. Young men sit for hours pulling video-game triggers, mowing down human beings en masse without pain or consequence. And we profess shock when a small cadre of unstable, deeply deranged, dangerously isolated young men go out and enact the overlearned narrative. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 12/20/2012)