WD-40, ants, guns
From 2005 to 2008 I was having trouble with swarms of "ants" in my house. Early in '08 I triumphantly posted that I had found a simple solution: use WD-40. After treating the supposedly "affected areas" with WD-40, the swarm stopped. A month later the swarms had returned in force, so I finally called Orkin, who immediately recognized the "ants" as termites. Orkin proceeded to exterminate the nests, and the "ants"=termites haven't returned since.

The expensive mess taught me a lesson about assumptions. WD-40 does in fact kill bugs, but you can't assume that killing the visible bugs has solved anything. It may be that the swarm was going to end in a few days anyway.

Today the idiot anti-gun forces have given a good squirt of WD-40 to the "gun problem" in Connecticut.

More than three months after the massacre of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., state legislative leaders announced on Monday that they had agreed on what they called the most far-reaching gun-legislation package in the country. It would require new state-issued eligibility certificates for the purchase of any rifle, shotgun or ammunition; mandate that offenders convicted of any of more than 40 weapons offenses register with the state; require universal background checks for the sale of all firearms; and substantially expand the state’s existing ban on assault weapons.

They will undoubtedly feel justified when no further massacres occur for a while. They will be deluded, just as I was deluded by the natural ending of the termite swarm. Let's look at BASIC FUCKING FACTS.

BASIC FUCKING FACT #1: These big massacres occur very rarely. On average about two massacres per year in the whole country, a number that has been constant for quite a while. Two per year in the whole country. Connecticut has about 1/100 of the national population, so you would expect .02 massacres per year in that state, or one massacre every 50 years.

BASIC FUCKING FACT #2: So the "swarm" is unlikely to happen again in the lifetime of existing politicians, REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH WD-40 THEY SPRAY.

Now that the idiot Conn government has sprayed, they will assume that the lack of new "swarms" results from their idiot actions. Or at least they will fool the people into making that assumption. Most likely the promoters of the idiocy are fully aware of BASIC FUCKING FACTS.

If you really want to have some effect on the peculiar recent brand of school massacres, you need to take two parallel steps. (1) Restore the pre-1970 insane asylum, with involuntary commitment and useful work instead of drugs for the inmates. This won't happen, of course, because the anti-gun idiots are the same Stalinists who gave us the "patient rights" movement. (2) Stop drugging odd kids. Give them useful work instead of drugs. This won't happen either, because the anti-gun idiots are the same Stalinists who favor medicalizing heterodoxy.

Oh well. Shouldn't complain too much. This pointless nonsense keeps the commiefag politicians busy on zero-effect symbolism. If they weren't jacking off on gun control, they'd have more energy for lethal and genocidal Global Warming or Die-Versity tyranny.
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