The yoga teacher and admirer of trees Mark Morford made it back onto our radar after we last ran into him. Last year, after Black Friday’s massive run on gun purchases, Mr. Morford laughably attributed those gun sales on scared, racist white guys. The scary part was that he was serious.
Now, just in time for Halloween, Morford further exposes his bigotry and ignorance for all to see once more at the San Fran Chronicle.
Shooting up America: Guns are a national disgrace
by Mark Morford
Guns are, in a word, perfect.
And we’re quickly going downhill to the gutter from an already flawed beginning. (If guns were perfect, we wouldn’t have the Taurus Turd.)
Guns are unparalleled, really; they are small masterpieces of precision engineering, one of humanity’s most deliberate, perfectly designed tools. There is simply no denying a gun’s intention, no possible misunderstanding of its reason for existing.
Unlike cars, knives, drugs, alcohol or any other freely available, potentially deadly items which can (and do) kill lots of people, guns are the only commercially available instrument in the world that we designed specifically for the purpose of the eradication of life. A gun’s nature is, as they say in the tech world, baked in to the hardware. It understands nothing else.
As if a gun is a sentient being.
Like we said, he’s a little radical. I’ve heard of kooks wanting to give human rights to animals, but with thinking like this, we’ll be giving human rights to inanimate objects next.
Which is to say: Guns are death made physical, palpable in the hand. They are our basest, least sacred energies – hate, fear, paranoia – compressed into metal and explosives. No one holds or fires a gun without some fundamental understanding of this fact – that he could, if he so desired, kill anything he wanted, right now, in an instant – and that’s essentially all you’re supposed do with it.
…This is why all religious and spiritual traditions the world over agree: Guns are for cowards. They provide only the thinnest illusion of authority, the ugliest veneer of control, the most artificial aspect of authentic manhood.
Proof? Simple: Just remove any gun fetishist’s (or terrorist’s, or mass shooter’s) stockpile of weapons, and watch what happens. They are instantly deflated, lost, rendered vulgar and human. All illusions of power and machismo vaporize, leaving only the base energies of hate and fear they often don’t understand, much less know how to transmute into something like kindness and love.
Do you wish to pretend otherwise? To claim that guns are effective for safety, or self defense, or a warped sense of patriotism? This is not merely laughable, it’s the opposite of the truth, of established fact.
Can you say psychological projection?
What is psychological projection? From WiseGeek:
Psychological projection is a form of defense mechanism in which someone attributes thoughts, feelings, and ideas which are perceived as undesirable to someone else. For example, someone who harbors racist ideas while believing that racism is socially undesirable might come to believe that a friend is racist, projecting his or her racism onto the other person. Projection may manifest in all kinds of ways, and while it may be a defense mechanism, it can also be very destructive.
The concept of projection was developed by Dr. Sigmund Freud, a noted figure in the field of psychology. Dr. Freud believed that people used psychological projection to reduce their own stress or feelings of guilt, thus protecting themselves psychologically. This psychological phenomenon is sometimes referred to as “Freudian projection” in reference to Dr. Freud’s work in the field.
In a general sense, psychological projection can mean that people assume that other people share their thoughts or beliefs, good or bad. For example, someone who likes dogs might assume that all people like dogs, or an unfaithful spouse might conclude that everyone is unfaithful, since this would reflect his or her own experiences. As a defense mechanism, this allows people to feel more comfortable about themselves because they think they see traits in common with others.
Only fringe leftists would give this guy enough credibility to publish his writings, unless for the comedic value.
Remove my guns and I’ll become deflated and lost? Not very likely, I’ll grab a nine iron with which to meet the demon. I hope the demon is deflated because his firearm has been removed, if not, he still has to deal with me before he advances. I realize Mr. demon does have an advantage but I’m not rolling over. Mark Morford is a turd.
Folks, we are witnessing an intellectual powerhouse telling us about the liberal uptopia… tyranny.
Manking tried that once before where the common man was forbidden to have any form of weapons. It was caed the Medieval times.
Like prohibition, that surely worked out well.
MOLON LABE MORONIC TURD???
He wants to even the playing field.
After he takes our guns, he’ll want to take our other tools and pastimes that real men enjoy.
We’ll be left with penny loafers, melon ballers and crying everyday as our wives spoon us.
Mark is a poster-boy for the pussificiation of the American male.
Don’t give him the time of day. He’s a nobody, writing in the liberal echo chamber.
If gun owners were half as violent and half as bigoted as he portrays us, with guns that were half as inclined to kill, he would have been very room temperature long ago.
Pretty sure he pissed his diaper as he penned that screed.