Passing on opinion as fact

Why can't I get paid for waxing fanatical about my personal issues and hang-ups? Take this clown from the NY Daily News:

"So rabid are the believers that more than a few argued yesterday that Cho Sueng-hui's rampage could have been cut short if only Virginia Tech did not bar students from carrying guns on campus. But that's the way Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday lived. That's the way Abe Reles and Legs Diamond lived. That not the way civilized human beings live."

Please define civilized. I'd wager a month's salary that one could expect much more refined manners in the Old West than in your typical, modern college bar. The uber-jock frat boys are typically unarmed, but they do tend to exhibit intoxication, swagger, strength in numbers, intimidation, disrespect and misogyny. Yes, this is all so civilized. Tell you what, Hoss, I'll take my chances with the rednecks.

"The more sensible answer is not to arm ourselves daily against whatever Cho Sueng-huis might come mumbling and muttering along. The answer is to do whatever can be done to keep the Cho Sueng-huis from laying hands on guns more easily than on driver's licenses."

Good point. Nobody can get a bag of weed anywhere because the government really makes it so hard.

"But so potent a political force are the fanatics that they have managed to bend to their will even Rudy Giuliani, who said yesterday, "People have the right to keep and bear arms, and the Constitution says this right will not be infringed." And they have such a firm grip on Washington that Congress won't even bring itself to ban private ownership of military-grade assault weapons, much less regulate side arms."

I get it. I'm a fanatic because I believe in the whole constitution, and you're an intellectual because you believe in only part of the constitution. Gee, your thesis doesn't sound all that coherent when I break it down like that does it?

What are these military-grade assault weapons of which you speak? They are already under control. If you actually did research, rather that flailing at the keyboard like a rhesus monkey on crank, you'd understand that the boomsticks used by the .Mil have features mine does not.

OK, at this point, propaganda like this serves to amuse, rather than anger me. I'm only concerned that lies, repeated often enough, will bee eventually taken as truth.

Happiness!