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It's Jeanne Storm's fault!

Pravda Newyorkskaya, at the bottom of a whole raft of anti-gun letters (all of which conveniently ignore the fact that Nickel Mines school was chosen because they were Amish and wouldn't resist), prints this charmer of penetrating moral thought:

Somehow I feel responsible, as a member of the larger American society, for these deaths. It was my America that somehow contributed to the creation of this killer.

Why so many school killings? Has the general climate of approval of sexual stimulation, torture, dishonesty in government and business, the atmosphere of “anything goes” resulted in this horror?

There is not much I can do, but I have written the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police expressing my sympathy with all who have suffered in Nickel Mines and sent a small check for him to distribute in any way he sees fit to alleviate the pain in his community.

Jeanne M. Storm
Chester, Vt., Oct. 3, 2006

I'm glad she took responsibility. It's certainly not MY America which is responsible for either the Amish or their slayer. MY America isn't responsible for "approval of sexual stimulation, torture, dishonesty in government and business, the atmosphere of “anything goes""; I've been fighting those things (well, maybe not sexual stimulation, though I prefer that to be private). Society has been so bizarre of late that it's hard to believe it's a natural devolutionary process, and conspiracy theories abound. But now we know the truth: it's all Jeanne Storm's fault!

It is the blessed St. Ayn (pbuh) who has shown us the way of spreading the news. In the tradition of "Who is John Galt?", whenever America's depravity overtakes her, we shall cry, "Who is Jeanne Storm anyway?" Many folk legends will grow around her; she'll be seen by some as more devious and powerful than Hillary Clinton. Only a few will guess that she is the woman who stopped the engine of the world.

Thanks to Taranto, who didn't take it nearly far enough.