Rush Limbaugh has stayed on top of the radio game for decades because his listeners know that tuning in to hear what he has to say, especially in the wake of significant news, is rarely a waste of time.
Limbaugh demonstrated this again on Friday when he excoriated the left's kneejerk response to mass murder at a community college in Oregon with demands for more gun control -- despite the fact the rampage occurred at that epitome of liberal lunacy known as a "gun-free zone."
Limbaugh also elaborated on what he considers the root causes of recurring violent incidents in the US -- "cultural rot" and a society that makes "cult heroes" of the mentally ill, both conditions encouraged by the left --
Reason magazine, Brian Doherty -- Obama talks earnestly of simple laws that could have prevented the Oregon shooting but he didn't name any. What simple law could stop this? Look, folks, this is crucial. I don't mind being redundant. Just pummel people with this -- the dream of gun control exists. It existed on the campus of this college in Oregon. It exists in every school campus in this country practically. Every one of them is a gun-free zone.
At least until a soul-dead predator shows up and starts shooting, whereupon desperate pleas for help are made for heavily-armed people from elsewhere to intervene.
Every one of them is the utopia the left wants! Every damned one of them, there aren't any guns -- in the hands of good people. And yet guns still end up there. Obama says we've got to stop this, nobody can tell us how to do this, unless you just eliminate guns, you just -- and even if you tried that, even if there were a new law that said the only people that said the only people in America who could legally own guns are law enforcement ...
Otherwise deemed trigger-happy racists by liberals, who would inexplicably provide police with a monopoly on firearms.
... federal, state, local, Secret Service, things like that, you think that would end the practice of guns being in the hands of criminals? They don't have a solution for this. The advocates of gun control do not have a solution, folks. If you are a well-intentioned, big-hearted person and this kind of thing rips your heart out and makes you sad and makes you cry and you're longing for a solution to where this kind of thing doesn't happen anymore, let me just tell you that the people on the Democrat side, the left side of the country with their ideas will not solve this. They do not have a solution.
They've had a blueprint, we've got a testing ground if you will on every school campus, where do these mass shootings, why are there school shootings anyway? Why are there school shootings and not other places? Because everybody knows there are no guns allowed there and there are kids there and security people don't even have guns. I mean, it all makes sense.
Bottom line is, you cannot fix this with gun control. You'd think that would have been learned by now. And I maintain to you, even if people like Obama and every other elected Democrat, Hillary Clinton, even if they know that! Even if they know that you cannot solve this with gun control, it will not stop them from pushing for it.
Limbaugh then explained what he considers the underlying causes of mass violence in the United States --
The roots of this can be found in two places -- cultural rot, which has led to a lack of respect for the sanctity of life itself and for people, and the second thing is, a culture that is making mentally ill people into cult heroes through media and social media. Oh I know, the Oregon shooter was not even a student at the school. He went there for this very purpose. (Limbaugh claiming this before it was reported that the gunman was enrolled in a course at the school). He went there to kill Christians. You want to stop these kind of things? We've got to clean up the soul of our nation. We have to stop making cult heroes out of mentally ill people and we have got to somehow reverse this lack of respect and sanctity for life itself.
Exhibit A, as cited by Limbaugh -- this jaw-dropper of a story in the New York Post headlined, "I poured drain cleaner in my eyes to blind myself." Its lede -- "For most people, going blind is their worst nightmare, but for this North Carolina woman it was a dream come true."
Limbaugh's take --
OK, so standard news story in an everyday American newspaper with wide readership, the New York Post, blind (body) integrity identity disorder, and the woman is portrayed here as finally realizing her dream but now everybody knows her story. She has also achieved great fame or, well, she's on the way, this will do it. And she's going to have lots of media attention and they'll be asking her about this and she will have all kinds of answers about blind or body integrity identity disorder and a whole lot of really confused and unstable Americans all over the country are going to see this and they're going to react to it, some of them in a way that, hey man, you know what? Look at, everybody knows who she is, it's a way to get fame and this could trigger in a whole lot of people a sudden belief -- yeah, you know what? I know I'm unhappy and now I know why. I'm supposed to be disabled, and who knows what some people might start doing in order to make themselves disabled now -- because this is portrayed as absolutely normal and she even had the assistance of a Columbia University psychiatry professor and a medical doctor who actually participated in pouring drano in her eyes to make her go blind, in order to realize a life ambition.
The Columbia University professor cited in the story spoke about the disorder itself and did not assist the woman. She was helped by a "sympathetic psychologist" to "carry out her ultimate desire in 2006."
"The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil," the Post reported.
This is the inevitable result of treating the delusional and insane as normal, Limbaugh warned --
Yeah, it was just a few weeks ago, we had a story about a guy, cut off an arm or something, another example of Body Identity Integrity Disorder. (More accurately, Body Integrity Identity Disorder). He knew that he wasn't supposed to have both arms or both legs or something. Look, there are mental disorders all over the world. There are people that are mentally ill and so forth but we're not treating them properly. We're making cult heroes out of some of them. We're making them, in other cases, cultural leaders in the sense that they are really in touch with themselves and it's really dangerous. That, as much as guns, is an explanation for what's going on. These are sick people and yet we're treating them as though they're rational and we want to apply rationally-made laws to irrational people and then we end up blaming the law or the lack of it.
And it's because of political correctness that we cannot honestly talk about mental illness and deal with it. Half of the homeless are mentally ill. They should not be on the street, they should be institutionalized, but somebody came along some time ago and said, you know, this is a violation of their human and civil rights. And plus they're a great political weapon. It's a great way to blame Republicans for not caring about people. You never hear about the homeless during Democrat administrations, other than that one story from L.A. last, couple of weeks which still puzzles me how that happened but nevertheless it did.
Which is not to say that liberals never suspect anyone of mental illness. But oddly enough, they limit allegations of it to political opponents, especially those they are fond of denigrating as "gun nuts."
