Why We are 'Obsessed' with Guns and Executions

Keith Burgess-Jackson explains in response to a moronic missive he found in the NYT:

To the Editor:

Dear America: Not that I expect to persuade you, but just so you know, most of the rest of the world regards your obsession with guns and executions as barbaric. Don’t say you weren’t told.

VINCE CALDERHEAD
Nairobi, Kenya, April 30, 2014

Note from KBJ: You mean the world that gave us (just off the top of my head, and in no particular order) the Inquisition, the Crusades, human chattel slavery, gladiatorial contests, human sacrifice, conquistadors, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedung, Robespierre, genocide, tribal warfare, the guillotine, the garrote, and the broadaxe? Sorry; we Americans put our murderers to death because, and only because, we value innocent human life. We are "obsessed" with guns because we are obsessed with individual liberty. It you don't like it here, please leave. If you're not here, please shut up and leave us alone.

Well said.  The willful stupidity and moral obtuseness of contemporary liberals is perhaps best demonstrated from their lunatic stands on capital punishment and gun control.

Here it is over a year since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Why is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev still alive?  We need a judicial fast track for terrorists.  Have we lost the will to defend our open way of life, our institutions and traditions? 

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To the Editor:

Dear America: Not that I expect to persuade you, but just so you know, most of the rest of the world regards your obsession with guns and executions as barbaric. Don’t say you weren’t told.

VINCE CALDERHEAD
Nairobi, Kenya, April 30, 2014

Note from KBJ: You mean the world that gave us (just off the top of my head, and in no particular order) the Inquisition, the Crusades, human chattel slavery, gladiatorial contests, human sacrifice, conquistadors, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedung, Robespierre, genocide, tribal warfare, the guillotine, the garrote, and the broadaxe? Sorry; we Americans put our murderers to death because, and only because, we value innocent human life. We are "obsessed" with guns because we are obsessed with individual liberty. It you don't like it here, please leave. If you're not here, please shut up and leave us alone.

Well said.  The willful stupidity and moral obtuseness of contemporary liberals is perhaps best demonstrated from their lunatic stands on capital punishment and gun control.

Here it is over a year since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Why is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev still alive?  We need a judicial fast track for terrorists.  Have we lost the will to defend our open way of life, our institutions and traditions? 

Related: Three Arguments Against Capital Punishment Demolished

On Toleration: With a Little Help from Kolakowski