Aging “rocker” John Cougar Melonhead keeps on hacking away.
John Mellencamp: Show Dead Bodies to Change Hearts and Minds on Gun Control
There’s a particularly twisted subset of gun control fans who firmly believe that if Americans are only exposed to the sight of murder victims after they’ve been shot and killed, they’ll support every one of the anti-2A infringements the gun control lobby wants to shove down our throats. I’ve always liked John Mellencamp’s music, whether he was going by Johnny Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, or just plain old John Mellencamp, so it’s disappointing to see that he’s among those who are convinced that exploiting dead children is a price worth paying, so long as it leads to gun bans that will be ignored by the very people who’ve robbed those children of their future.If we as a country want to find the collective will within ourselves to change our gun laws, let’s stop playing silly political games. Show the carnage on the news. Show the American people the dead children and others who have been struck down. Show us what guns and bullets can do to the human body. The news media need to be brave enough to let Americans see what slaughtered children look like. Otherwise, I fear that too many perceive gun violence as an abstract; a story that’s repeated nearly every day to numbing effect. When I was a teenager, there was a war in Vietnam. In the beginning, no one paid much attention to this problem in a foreign land until the media shouldered the responsibility and showed America how our sons were being slaughtered. Once those images were shown on TV, there was overwhelming demand for that war to be ended immediately. I say this as a father and a human being, with deep empathy for the parents whose children have had their lives ended so suddenly and so senselessly: Show America the carnage. I am not being callous, and I know it will be painful to see. But, sad to say, I think it’s the only way to shock America out of its stupor.
Clue to the clueless: We already know what guns and bullets can do to the human body—the saner sorts among us do, at any rate. It’s why we have the damned things, what we insist on our right to keep and bear them for in the first damned place, you blithering idiot. Only ign’ant, hoplophobic douchenozzles like your precious self seem not to be cognizant of this, as well as the accompanying fact that not a single gun has ever, throughout the entire course of human history, hopped out of the safe or off the nightstand, walked down the street, and shot anybody without human intervention or intent—not even once.
Only a sick, deeply depraved shitwit like Melonhead could be so cruel, so inveterately craven and soulless, as to go as far as this in clambering up onto the caskets of murdered children to use the loved and lost as mere tools to advance the Leftard political agenda in such an obscene fashion. Put in terms much more courteous than this repellent runt in any way merits:
I’m so sick and tired of this pathetic argument from the anti-gunners, which is based on the premise that the only reason people oppose gun control laws is that they just don’t care about the victims of violent crime; that they need to have some shock to their senses to bring them in line with the already enlightened likes of Mellencamp. It’s such a toxic mix of condescension and yes, callous disregard for others. Oh, he knows how painful it will be, but trust him: it’s worth other people’s pain so long as it convinces those he views as the ignorant masses to start demanding… well, Mellencamp never did get around to saying what kind of gun laws he wants to see on the books, did he?
We’ve seen this argument used to demand bans on “assault weapons” specifically (as if it’s somehow less awful to be killed by someone using a 9mm pistol, an ice pick, or fists and feet) to outright repeal of the Second Amendment, but Mellencamp can’t even be bothered to lay out what laws he wants to see once we’ve been shocked out of our supposed stupor.
What Mellencamp (and the other poor souls who believe this is a great idea) don’t seem to understand is that there are plenty of folks out there who have seen the brutal results of a child murdered in cold blood but who don’t believe that gun control laws are the answer; including front-line law enforcement, trauma surgeons, coroners, and moms and dads who’ll never get over the pain of losing their child. They don’t see “gun violence” in the abstract, but they don’t believe that gun control is the answer either.
Nor should they. Because, y’know, it isn’t. Never was, never will be. Not that the abhorrent likes of John Cougar Melonhead really give a shit, of course.
As I always say: stop flapping your yap and just come and take them already, dickwart. Anytime you feel froggy enough, we’re all ready and waiting for ya. Let’s see how that works out for you and yours, once and for all.
Amen, Chuck.
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Sure, show the dead bodies of the children murdered. Then show us the murderers, the rap sheets where they have been in and out of the “system” for years. Show us how the government let the murderers go time after time.
And to top it off, show us the horrors of the state being the only owners of guns – the 10 million murdered by Hitler, the 100 million murdered by the russians, the 100 million murdered by the chinese, the millions murdered by pol pot, and on and on.
Show us those.
End gangbang street violence in major cities and America’s murder rate, especially from guns, becomes one of the lowest in the world.
The arrest of perhaps 25,000 people across America in the top 10 cities would probably end 90% of “gun violence” (it’s really people violence) in the Country.
Instead we are importing tens of thousands of them amongst the millions swarming over the border. As well as foreign fifth columnist armies from America’s enemies.
I’m in favor of this approach, but only if the first dead body shown is John Mellencamp’s. If he’s not down for that, he should STFU with all due haste.
Pretty sure that would end the discussion, either way.
When you’re 72, and haven’t had a hit single since Clinton was president, it’s probably best not to try to become relevant from pushing political ideas that have been DOA since back when you were actually making gold records. This guy is less of a cultural force right now than Pee Wee Herman.
Extra points for the Pee Wee Herman reference.
I chose him on purpose, because at least when he got himself in trouble, unlike Mellonhead, he didn’t try to pretend he wasn’t just jerking himself off in public.
Thanks for the pass for the lay-up:
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It was a necessary battle against the Soviet/ChiCom expansionism and as Ike and even JFK fought it, it was going ok.
Then LBJ expanded it, sent 25x the troops there to walk around and get ambushed by guerillas supplied and funded by the Commies up North who acted on behalf of International Communism, and generally CAUSED the excessive casualty figures and you dolts still somehow blamed the Republicans.
What’s even worse is that John Melonhead was shown by Nixon how to actually execute the War by shutting down the Laos and Cambodian supply lines and bombing the North. Nixon then achieved the same Containment Ike has achieved in Korea.
Not the best of circumstances, but Nixon got the troops home and the War contained.
Motherfuckers like Melonhead then gave the whole thing away by supporting the ending of funding and support to the South and damned the whole of SV, Laos and Cambodia to Communism and people like Pol Pot and Mao.
Melonhead and his dumbass pals were totally RESPONSIBLE for the carnage they decried.
Betcha he Hates Trump too. The President that Ended Wars and didn’t start any New Wars.
Also, he made solid rock and roll and then he decided his music was “art”. He and Springsteen went off the rails at about the same time.
I can only really stand to listen to Bob Seger out of that group they labelled Roots Rock or Heartland Rock from that time.