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Maher gets it right.

“Was [Kirk’s assassin] on the left? I don’t know … It is a fool’s errand to try to say that these nuts who do these things are [on] any team… This kid doesn’t belong in either party. He belongs in a straitjacket. He’s an outpatient who should not be out.”

Which reminds UD of something else she’s been thinking about. The missing link in these kills done by people 16-25 is their parents. Many of the killers are still living at home, and in many cases their parents know perfectly well that their kid is nuts. Their response to this dawning horror is denial plus hiding: They don’t want it to be true; and they don’t want anyone outside the home to know it’s true.

Many of these homes are already really gunny, with dad deciding it’d make the kid better if they went to the ranges together… You’d be amazed how many parents of violent demented children decide more guns and more shooting is the answer.

Or maybe the parent enjoys his own rage against society being acted out by the kid. Things get squirrely here.

The larger theme of moronic negligence resounds throughout the land, as in the husband who took a business trip, leaving his spectacularly insane wife alone in the house with her four little daughters. She slaughtered all of them with one of many guns her husband decided were fine to keep unlocked with a maniac in the house. One of the girls survived long enough to suffer great pain for a few days.

Margaret Soltan, September 21, 2025 8:51AM
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2 Responses to “Maher gets it right.”

  1. Matt McKeon Says:

    Just saying people are “crazy” misses the point. They’re crazy and armed and crazy and pointed in a particular way. Kirk, and those state reps in Minnesota, or the folks in the church in Charleston, or Pelosi’s husband aren’t random targets, while the attackers might be “crazy.”

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Quite true. Better to say they’re obsessives with targets that push some of their madness-buttons. But I’d also say that while in some cases – like the pure homicidal racism of the guy who killed the gathering of churchgoers – the source of the homicidal craziness is very clear, a lot of other shooters have a deeply confused, not to say insanely incoherent, view, out of which the act arises.

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