Sigh. Roger Simon, your heart bleeds to where you need to stop the blood loss. Perhaps you, like too many of your mass media colleagues, need to go beyond the left-wing anti-gun websites for your research.

Take this little anti-gun ditty from you. You confuse tragedy with trend, and make far too many fallacious errors to list. But here are a few of the Czar’s favorites.

I am going to go way out on a limb here and make a prediction: Over the next several months, more people will be killed in this country by the easy availability of guns than by North Korean missiles.

Now that’s cute. But only in retrospect: had that North Korean rocket hit populated Japan (and the next one might), you would realize what a colossus of dumb-assiness that statement will forever be. You choose to create a false dichotomy, which should have been covered in Journalism 101. Yet he continues…

But which problem is considered a crisis? And which is considered everyday life? (Or, to put it more accurately, everyday death.)

Fair philosophical question. To play along, your Czar will suppose the answer is “no one was killed with a North Korean missile in the last couple of weeks, whereas dozens have been killed in gun violence. Let me pose one for you: how many people will be killed in car accidents in the next several months? Uh-oh.

We then turn to the recent tragic shootings, which he continues to compare to the North Korean missile crisis.

And which got the most response from our government recently? And which do we even remember?

Probably most of us remember both, unless you have that incredibly short memory that too many liberals are blessed with. As for government response, that indeed is a great question for POTUS Obama, who appears to have generated little effect with either.

Details follow. Your Czar has bolded the words or phrases which serve no editorial purpose but serve merely to inflame the anti-gun crowd. Count ‘em up:

On Friday, Jiverly Wong, 31, wearing body armor and carrying two handguns, entered the headquarters of the American Civic Association in Binghamton, N.Y., and killed 13 people before committing suicide.

Wong, a gun enthusiast who often spent weekends at a local firing range, used to joke about shooting people. When asked before the last presidential election whom he was going to vote for, Wong told a co-worker, “I don’t really care, I’d shoot both of them.”

According to The New York Times, Wong had been licensed to carry handguns in New York since 1996.

Ease up on them hammers, Roger.  I hear these guys also read editorials by media pundits and watched movies, too.

April has also started off badly. First, there were the shootings in Binghamton on Friday. Then on Saturday, James Harrison shot and killed his four children, ages 7 to 16, in Washington state before killing himself. On the same day, Richard Poplawski, 23, allegedly shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers and wounded a fourth.

Yeah, what despicable characters. You might have gone back to March, when Lovelle Mixon openly murdered four Oakland police officers because he was an understandably frustrated ex-con who really was a helluva nice guy, and was a true American hero. He gets a free pass because he was no gun fanatic covered in body armor with a license to carry. Except that would hurt your argument.

Ironically, Roger would not even see the Czar’s point here: he would simply say “All the more reason for gun control. Why that’s even more proof!” It may take some time before you realize it is not.

But back to the original source. We can get in a few more digs at the Second Amendment here:

According to his childhood friend, Edward Percovic, Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way,” and he “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.”

Now why would the Czar be insulted by this? Because your Czar, who writes this very post, also detests the notion of an unconstitutional gun ban, and he also is disgusted by our rights being infringed. Therefore, Roger syllogizes, your Czar must also be a whacknut. Hence, the insult. Roger, if you enjoy gun bans and infringed rights, you should live in China. Or North Korea. Or Cuba. Or Mexico. Or Iran. We could go on listing places that would terrify Roger Simon, who is quite happy living in the country with gun carry and unfringed rights, so that we can defend his right to say the moronic.

Roger tidies up his Percovic quote with the predictably asinine media favorite:

“Nobody ever expected something like this from him,” Percovic said.

Because the media want you to think that all quiet, non-butinsky neighbors are planning to go on a shooting spree. What the media never seem to get right is mass shooters leave considerable evidence well before they even load the gun—“that’s all he ever talked about”-kind of stuff. So much so that the distinct phases have been identified long ago. The Czar is going to go out on a limb of his own, and guess you didn’t really read the research, did ya?

Unfortunately, no one around these guys had the firepower to stop them. Guess why?

Roger, you need to do better if you really want to disarm us. Because gun-hating libs such as you seem to be having the opposite effect nationwide. Oh yes…guess why?

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.