Prager-licious

Graffiti is probably going to be the evil force that destroys America. The perpetrators of this crime are called 'taggers'. There's only one way to stop them: With a gun.

I'm wondering why there aren't more voices on the airwaves out there preaching the kind of good morals and behavior of Dennis Prager. His words of wisdom move me to tears sometimes. (Can you cry from shame?) Recently, Dennis wrote a column about graffiti vandals and also talked about it on his radio show. He said:

"So you will now say -- I hear the voice of an ACLU member -- 'Dennis, do you think that this guy should have shot these people spray painting graffiti on his shop?' To which my answer is yes. I do. Not to kill. Not to kill. But if he shot them in the legs or in the arms I would have considered the man one of the great advancers of civilization in my time. And that is what divides left from right. Because anybody on the left hearing this would think that this is barbaric whereas I consider not stopping these people in any way that is necessary to be barbaric."

How can anyone with an ounce of sanity not agree with this? OF COURSE the crime of graffiti deserves the punishment of being shot by a civilian taking the law into their own hands. How does this not make sense to people?

I'm sure that everyone who owns a handgun is a REALLY good shot with it. So right off the bat, we can erase the possibility of error from the equation. There would absolutely be no chance of anything going wrong like, say, missing the target and hitting an innocent bystander by mistake. And let's not forget that Prager suggests/urges that people shoot these vandals not to kill. Not to kill. Only to wound them by shooting them in the leg or arm. But couldn't the shooter accidently miss the leg and hit the torso by accident, possibly killing the tagger? This is a tough one... Dennis, do you have anything for us?

"I have no desire to see a graffiti vandal killed....But if enough taggers are wounded, their assault on civilization will decline dramatically. And if one accidentally dies? That would be a tragedy. But here is the bottom line: More innocent people will die if tagging is not stopped than if it is."

Exaclty! So a young kid dies. Yeah, that's awful, but probably for the best in the end. I mean, we all know that there is absolutely no way of reaching young kids and educating them, so really the only other option is shooting them.

Also, Dennis couldn't be more right in calling the shooter in an incident like this "one of the great advancers of civilization in my time." Now, some people might balk at this statement, saying that it's the lunatic rantings of an ignorant, blinded blowhard. But let's be honest: Dennis' "time" only includes the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and John F. Kennedy to name a few. Those people can't be compared to a hardware store owner who shoots a 15-year old kid in the leg for spray-painting, can they?

Mr. Prager also brings up another great point in his column:

"...Conservatives tend to view higher civilization as more fragile than the left views it. Conservatives believe the line between civilization and barbarism is under constant assault and is not necessarily enduring. That is one reason the right tends to have a higher regard for the police than does the left. Conservatives see the police as 'the thin blue line' that separates civilization from barbarians."

And people want to say that Conservatives try to spread their agenda by fear?? How so?? Just because they're afraid of everything??

I mean, obviously Conservatives on the right "have a higher regard for the police", and demonstrate that higher regard for the police by going around them and condoning citizens to take the law into their own hands.

Because that's what the police want, need and expect of us, right? To simply remove them from the equation. Why are more of us simply not skipping the whole legal process and moving directly to punishment doled out at our own discretion? That ought to help to further separate a civilized society from barabarism.

Dennis lives in reality. Plain and simple. He says:

"My first wish is that taggers be arrested and punished. I also wish for world peace and a cure for cancer. But the real-life choice is almost always between taggers getting away with their vandalism and an irate citizen taking action."

So how do we solve these problems? Well, since world peace is impossible, we should just invade other countries and force upon them our own ideals. And since arresting and punishing a graffiti vandal is impossible we should just have ordinary citizens take the law into their own hands, ignoring all aspects of due process, and shoot the criminals. So, sticking with this same thought-process, why are we so leniant on cancer? Shouldn't we be more aggressive? Couldn't we just try invading cancer? We could try shooting it. Because as Conservatives know, a gun can solve anything.

So, learning from Dennis Prager here, please good citizens, if you happen to see a vandal spray-painting a wall, garage or storefront, please don't call the police. Have a little respect for them by making their job easier and shooting the vandal yourself. Ahhhhhh, if you're really quiet you can almost hear the advancement of civilization with every shot fired....although that might just be the sound of the blood-curdling cry of pain....or the distant wail of ambulance sirens.