And here we go again with the woes and tears about kids committing suicide because they were bullied/harassed/bothered by jerks. Spokespeople with somber faces basically accuse the lot of us of not doing anything about this problem and that makes it our fault… we heartless bastards.

Of course it is our collective fault, God forbid it is the fault of the parents for purposely raising emotional wussies incapable of tackling problems without the help of 17 counselors, 5 shrinks and a pilates class. I am the senseless bastard that have done nothing to relieve the pain of those tortured souls but not a culture that prides itself in being a victim and chides self determination and abhors when somebody stands up for his or her rights as a human being. It is is easier to blame the school because you have determined that the school system, run by people as inept as the parents, should do the job Mom and Dad will not do because interferes with the synergistic interaction of their careers or interrupts their list of important community things to do so they can brag to the neighbors.

So now, what do we need to solve the problem? It is not going to be a change in the culture or even to stop thinking of children as merit badges you should have to raise in the corporate ladder of life. Nope, we need a Federal law against Bullies.

So let me ask you this, Murder and a whole bunch of other crimes are already against the law and yet they still occur so, What makes you think that a bunch of lines in paper are going to stop bullying? Oopsie! they haven’t thought about that one, right?

You stop bullying the old fashioned way: Bust the bully in the mouth, literally or by other means . It has been working for eons and there is no reason to think that it stopped working just because a bunch of flower-farting hippies came up with “sensitive” alternatives that have failed over and over but makes them “feel good” about themselves and requires no actual work on their part.

Also, tech your kids that Life is not all sweet thoughts, unicorn rides and instant positive results by just wishing it. Real Life is hard, has its frustrating moments and you will be scored on real performance, not on intentions. Let them know that they will fail, make mistakes, crash and burn and generally fuck up by the numbers, but the real triumph resides on standing up and face the challenge and continue living. That kids resort to suicide because of name calling, being caught having sex or pushed around shows that many parents are no more mentally mature than the kids themselves and should have been impeded from procreating more emotional inferior litters.

Now that the free speech-killing Disclose Act has yet again failed to go anywhere in the Senate, it’s time to set the record straight on whom we have to thank for its rightful death: the National Rifle Association of America. Yes, the same group miscast to so many people by bloggers and drive-by journalists as the villain in this drama.

I can already hear the grinding of teeth, smell the foam coming out of the mouths and blood poring out of the nail-embedded palms. And I don’t mean the Brady’s.

The video in the link show a knife attack in Turkey. No warnings, just a nutjob creating havoc and then put down buy the shop owner.

Don’t ask me about traditional Martial Arts. Other than watching the Green Hornet as a kid and then Kung Fu as teen, I have no idea. So, if the kata shown here is feasible or not should be answered by people that know.

But did you really had to do the demonstration with a real frigging gun?

Husband: “There was only one way to stop him,” said Roger. “I didn’t shoot to kill, which I could have. I lowered the gun and I shot him.”

Wife: “I wish I would have taken that gun away from my husband, and I would have killed him,” she said. “I think we had every right to defend our house. Doesn’t everybody?”

And now we know who’s got the testosterone flowing in that household.

I’ve been following several blogs where the theme is Mall Ninja Instructors doing all kinds of stupid stuff up to an including shooting at targets nearby a student downrange. But just to show we don’t have the monopoly on sheer imbecility, this “instructor” (please pronounce with Spanish accent) goes balls to the walls with different platforms against a moron that lets him.