by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

I’ll have much more to say on the Texas shooting when more facts are in.

But until then, let me make one point to all you on social media and in in the MSM who are whining like two year olds that had their candy taken away for someone to “DO SOMETHING!”

GROW THE **** UP.

Specifically, deal with the fact that being an adult means you, and only you, are responsible for your safety and self-defense.

If you have children then you have voluntarily taken upon yourself the responsibility for the safety of others, specifically, those children. You choose where they go and who they go with. You choose the school. You choose the Principal, the teachers, the staff members and whatever security measures are there.

You are responsible because that is your child and you choose where that kid goes — or doesn’t.

We have friends who just recently yanked a kid out of school and are homeschooling same because they did not like the answers they got to questions about how said kid was being treated by both the school and other kids. The school would not correct the problem immediately so the kid isn’t there any more.

That’s called being a responsible parent.

It’s called being an adult.

If you can’t or won’t be an adult then sit down and shut the **** up.

A demand that someone else take care of your adult responsibilities is the act of a child. A petulant, temper-tantrum throwing child. If you are doing that whether you’re someone from Parkland, a governor, or a teen you are making clear that you are incompetent to accept the responsibilities of adulthood, you have no right to the privileges of adulthood including voting or holding public office, you have no ability to contract as you are mentally incompetent, you are unemployable since as a business owner I cannot trust you with the key to the bathroom say much less the building and I assure you that your temper tantrum is far more-disgusting when it spews forth from a 16, 18, 20 or 40-year old than when a 2-year old has a meltdown in the grocery store.

The bottom line is that if you have some (good) reason to go to or live in an unsafe place then be armed as you, and only you, deem appropriate for the level of threat you perceive. You don’t need any ******ned permit either; your right to self-defense preexists all government. Our founders not only understood that they wrote it into our Constitution in black letters for exactly that reason. Every one of the 50,000+ so-called “common-sense” gun laws on the books now are unconstitutional and, far more-important are in direct contravention of your right to defend your own life and those you love which cannot be conditioned on a “license” because you, and only you, ever had that right to begin with. You can’t give someone a license to do something you don’t first have a legitimate right of control over.

If you do not understand this go read the Declaration of Independence and recognize what happened when the British Crown responded “Bull****!” to those who signed it. To suborn, support or demand any such similar garbage is to explicitly support and in fact demand that the very same thing happen again.

If you still don’t understand and respect this fact you’re unfit to call yourself human, say much less American.

If you are sending your children to an unsafe place without the presence of armed resistance, whether that constitutes you personally or someone else in your stead you are an unfit parent as you are intentionally and knowingly putting those who you willfully accepted responsibility for in danger.

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