The Gun Blogs

Mrs. Morrison wanna be saying some dumb shit.

As any fan of The Doors knows, Oliver Stone made generous use of his usual “creative license” when making The Doors movie. It was on over the weekend, and I found myself scanning Wikipedia’s page on the movie for hints about things that Stone embellished or fabricated, stickler for the truth that I am.

It’s pretty commonly known that Patricia Kennealy has overstated her role in Morrison’s life; if he took his Celtic ritual “marriage” to her all that seriously, he probably wouldn’t have run off to Paris (where he died) with longtime girlfriend Pam Courson. Duh.

Anyway, Wikipedia has a link to her website; turns out Kennealy fancies herself a blogger! (I refuse to address her as Kennealy-Morrison or Mrs. Morrison, as she seems to prefer–it’s clearly an effort to continue 15 minutes of fame that should have dried up circa 1971.)

Check out her screed on the VT tragedy.

On the other hand, I have nothing but contempt for the State of Virgina and its redneck, NRA-ass-kissing gun laws. And I say this as a person who often feels that everybody should be armed in public, because the criminals and lunatics don’t stick to the law and play by the rules, and we’re all defenseless against this sort of thing.

What the hell?

I think everyone should be armed, but I don’t like VA’s “redneck” laws because…they allow people to be armed?

First and foremost, let’s address her basic premise: that the “NRA-ass-kissing-gun laws” are to blame. Apparently all that lysergic acid and coke snorting has shorted Ms. Kennealy’s synapses. The law about who can or can’t buy in this context in VA is no different than the law here in gun-control-heaven-A-rated-MD or anywhere else: if you pass an NICS check and “correctly” fill out a form 4473, you can buy a gun. The only difference is the waiting period; here in MD you have to wait seven days, in VA, you don’t. Cho waited 33 days to go on his killing spree, so the waiting period is irrelevant. Even in gun-control-happy states like MD, Cho still would have been able to buy a gun. Because the background check (which is the same in every state, it’s the NATIONAL Instant Check System) didn’t include his mental health history, he’d have been able to buy his gun in virtually any state in the union, not just VA. I’m not aware of any state where Cho would have been prevented from buying his guns. Kennealy doesn’t provide examples of any states that require gun dealers to be mind readers either.

There’s plenty of blame to go around for Cho getting a gun, I’m sure. But blaming it on Virginia is amazingly stupid.

The harebrained narcotics addled meandering continues:

But that’s a far cry from the kind of thing Virginia is doing. That state is the biggest supplier of illegally imported guns to New York City. It’s so easy to get a gun there, as we have all seen, and just drive back here with it, to keep or to sell.

Jim Morrison said he believed in a prolonged derangement of the senses to achieve the ultimate experience; apparently Ms. Kennealy bought one of those tickets and didn’t make the return train. She’s not even close to reality.

Every legal gun purchase in VA requires an NICS check. The idea that you can drive to VA, load up on multiple handguns at the gun store without a background check, and drive home to NYC no questions asked is simply delusional. You think NYC’s Bloods and Crips are filling out form 4473 and waiting for the NICS check to come back?

The guns they’re buying are bought on the black market, not through legal channels. VA’s gun laws are NOT the problem. New Yawkurs keep blathering that they wish VA would quit selling their crooks guns; funny, VA is one of the safest states to live in despite its permissive carry law and lack of seven day waiting period. I’ll bet VA wishes NYC would put its crooks in jail and quit sending them south to buy black market guns.

The law abiding citizens of VA have no problem responsibly handling their firearms. Why should they forgo their freedom because New Yorkers can’t follow their own damn laws?

Kennealy should stick to pretending she was anything but a rockstar’s harlot and groupie and leave gun politics out of her deluded ranting.