Using the "Standard Model"

The standard model is after a mass atrocity like NZ is for those who already wanted X to be banned to use the fear, panic, high emotions, and demands of "we must do something" to well... do something.

Both advocates of gun control and advocates of gun rights know this mechanism.

But now we have yet more evidence that these murderous losers are also aware of this dynamic.

That is that their horrific actions are used as justification for trying to change law, to change government policy.

Ponder that, you have losers who, by and large are acting out of a need to validate themselves, to make themselves (in)famous. To have their bile read around the world, to become the most famous person in the world...

And they're realizing they can also change governments.

Don't think this will stay to just weapon policy. As long as these murders advocate for something tangentially related to their horror, and push for something that those in power already wanted but did not have a pretext for...

(There's clamoring for all sorts of free speech restrictions about too)

Well, the urge to do something is strong. 

(And yes... the dynamic of State actors doing X because of the horrific actions of a terrorist.... when the terrorist also had interest in the state doing X....)

To use an example. What if an eco terrorist planted incendiary devices in an oil refinery / storage area / transportation. And caused a massive fire. And wrote a manifesto that said the hope was to cause people to get afraid of the damage petrochemicals do.

And then a Green-friendly government used that attack to... clamp down on petrochemicals.

Note the dynamic at work

Maybe bans on streaming video or social media he NZ government is also looking to do that. And has arrested people for sharing videos.

Yes... .they're calling for real-time monitoring of everyone's activity online with instant ability to silence anyone for any reason...

So wait...   they want a Chinese style control of the net?

And recall... that the killer in NZ thought China was best government.

Giving the terrorist what he wants.

Cracked: The FBI investigating cases where the victim is a bad guy sure is crazy, and super villain-like.

Cracked has an interesting idea on "supervillain actions" in this list article.


Some of this is not bad as a lot of it about China doing China stuff (interestingly not their social credit score system but hey a good example non the less) and Turkey doing Turkey stuff. 
But it's interesting that when talking about bad things the Philippines does.... they go after how their draft is done via lottery.... and you can escape the draft by volunteering for military service.

Huh.... that's not exactly the top list of nutty supervillainous stuff I'd think of when I think Philippines.

In fact that's.... sort of how drafts work.  Maybe a bit more flamboyantly implemented but that's the whole idea of a draft.

Similarly one of the entries is the FBI.  Now when it comes to crazy the FBI has a looooong history of questionable programs.

But... this article decides to go with the FBI having the gall to investigate one questionable group plotting crimes against another, worse group. (That is By Any Means Necessary versus the KKK).

I can't wait for the next article where Cracked decries the FBI  or local cops for wasting resources whenever a mobster or drug dealer is killed in a gangland slaying. Or whenever some other "obvious bad guy" is found robbed or beaten or stabbed or shot.

Because a tacit desire that only "good people" should fall under the protection of the law, won't encourage more vigilantism against groups law enforcement considers "bad" and thus won't  actually investigate. 

(Not to mention said "bad" people will feel, justly, that the Legal System will not care for them and that if they want any form of Justice...  they'll have to get it themselves, and thus more retribution and vengeance on their part)


Hmmm... which reminds me of a book about the mechanisms of inner city violence in the US  In short, a lot of the problems with such murders are increased because municipal authorities don't close murder cases and there's a permeating sense of "well the people being killed aren't real victims, so many of them are gang bangers too".   Sounds familiar no?


PS and sure Cracked hates the KKK now, but I'm sure they're quite happy to have a KKK member's help, on the Supreme Court no less to help save the New Deal.

PSS:  Kind of funny how the people screaming "Trump is eroding norms!" are jumping up and down to trample norms like.... "even bad people get legal representation"  or "even crimes against bad people are still crimes"

When even Cracked makes fun of Teacup weaver.

Sure it's user submitted,  but check out #7.

Well... Well... Well...

Wow.... there's a segment of the Dem House caucus that reaaaalllyy hates the idea of a universal background check being.... universal in that it would apply to citizens, non citizens, and non citizens here illegally.

That's um.... an interesting take.

Though much of their ire could be because there /were/ enough members of said caucus to vote with the other party to add that provision to HR8.

Though I suppose it is consistent given how /infrequent/ people who fail a background check due to felonious convictions are actually /prosecuted/ for the crime of lying on said check.

A Senator gets cornered by "Think of the Children!" tactics.

A bit of irony,   Feinstein's the one hit with the "think of the children!" unthinking sloganeering and demands to go with legislation she thinks would be ineffective.

It's presented so her attempts to explain things aren't as simple are shouted down by people thinking she's uncaring.

And as a bonus it's all edited down to make her look uncaring and out of touch.
(I mean...  yes but...)

Nearly a Hundred Co-sponsors to the House Assault Weapons Ban?

Okay then.

Pelosi who is trying to make a UBC bill seem all Appleball and Basepie is probably having a "You said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud" at this.

Cracked: Technology is scary! Ban all the things!

It's... always funny to see a supposed "technology" (and society and satire and humor)  publication clutch its pearls over new technology.

And this article  5 Scary Ways Technology Is Outrunning The Law is brimming with it.

Sure there's foot stomping over how things like files for 3D printed guns aren't banned, at least in the US. (Which ignores how utterly ineffective such a ban would be given other countries have tried to ban such files...)

The article is a bit sensible in that it admits such guns aren't terribly effective but then freaks out about how keys can be copied with a camera and 3D printers.

(Which is true, but ignores that most all locks are hilariously easy to subvert).

This is expected for an article that starts bemoaning an assassination attempt on Maduro and then going "well why didn't the US ban drones in response!"

Seriously.

After the drone-based assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a few months ago, the public, press, and government demanded that immediate safeguards be put in place to protect Americans from the threat of tiny murder machines. Wait, our bad. It stayed in the news cycle for about as long as a celebrity DUI, and was treated with about as much gravitas, because "remote control robot murder in one of them foreign countries" doesn't excite our deadened imaginations.

Note... this is a publication that rants about the US goverment's flagrant use of "remote control robot murder in one of them foreign countries".


The bulk of the article is bemoaning loopholes,  lack of goverment power to " "redirect, disable, disrupt control of, seize, or confiscate, without prior consent" any drones that pose a potential danger",  and simple complaints that things which are already very illegal are getting  easier to do via tech advances.


Now... the strange part is that the list also...  goes on about support animals being abused by people claiming any old pet is a support animal.

Still.. this shows that Cracked isn't just anti gun but full on Luddite and literally begging for the state's bootheal because technology is scary.