Hello all,
Sad when people speak...emotionalism...
"Emotionalism"??? Is that the best you can do to sweep the deaths of the little kids under the rug, while embarrassing yourself by putting gun ownership above all the innocents murdered by them. It's about caring about people, especially children. Why is it none of the pro-gun people never reacted directly to the tragedy without be sacred of losing their guns. Anyone with a molecule of empathy should have been horrified first without thinking selfishly...in my view...but then I never learned to be heartless.
In today's world with the armed forces carrying automatic weapons it seems reasonable that citizens should be able to have semi-automatic weapons. In these days of "Political Correctness" neither the press, the government and/or politicians really want to discuss this point.
So because the military makes every effort to have superior technology to defeat the country's enemies, you think you should be able to own the same weapons of those who give their lives to defend you...just in case of some paranoid fantasy that the same defenders could come after you and should have the means to kill them.
This iqnores that the public should be able to defend themselves against an army of a political dictator. You say it can't happen in a democratic type society or republic, IT DID. It was called the Third Reich.
This disinformation is astounding. You keep referring to the government becoming tyrannical. It wasn't the government that turned to tyranny or that built the Nazis. Actually it was a right wing faction of citizens that was paranoid about enemies in the government (like you are), extremist citizens crying about the loss of their liberties and shrieking about needing protection from others who did not think like them (like you do). The Nazis succeeded in rising because of the freedoms the Weimar government guaranteed that allowed their message to be delivered nationally (like yours is). The government didn't turn tyrannical, the same movement crying about losing freedom and attacked the government (like you do) overthrew the government and eliminated freedom. So a lot of characteristics parallel YOUR views.
Not to mention dredging up the Nazi specter is cheap cynical sensationalist fear-mongering.
This iqnores that the public should be able to defend themselves against an army of a political dictator. You say it can't happen in a democratic type society or republic, IT DID. It was called the Third Reich. No, history has proven and our very own culture has confirmed that strong gun ownership is one of the keys to peaceful coexistence.
Where's the dictator? Your stream of posts in your four year campaign against President Obama shows your view of a dictator is anyone who doesn't share your views. You're full of anger your view lost in the election. An election between views is called Democracy, no matter how much the other side hates losing.
Where is the dictatorship? Many many countries that don't promote gun ownership don't have tyranny. The British don't have proliferation of guns, yet there's no dictatorship. They have one of the lowest ownerships of guns in the world so by your de facto fantasy they should automatically be one of the most tyrannical societies in the world, yet they are one of the most free. So the nonsense that a people without guns leads to tyranny in government is an ignorance of the facts and self-serving propaganda at best.
Some of the worst and most enduring fratricidal disasters in the world have been cause by proliferation of guns or arms of every sort. World War I was so terrible exactly because of huge standing armies in nations geared up to produce arms at a fantastic rate and a resulting mentality of righteous armed self-defense and war as a proper political solution.
Since the horrific Newtown shooting, where 20 children were gunned down by a semi-automatic rifle, the NRA’s reaction has been swift and defensive. It’s video games, they say. It’s movies, they say. It’s not about the guns, they say, it’s about the fact that a bunch of crazy people have guns. Oh, wait.
Well, the NRA isn’t completely deaf to the needs of the children. In fact, they are creating a special campaign designed around the little folk: silencers, to protect their hearing — because the noise is what’s really dangerous about guns.
So the children and all those slaughtered in malls, movie theaters, and snipers died from the noise. Damn I hate it when the media misinforms us that it was bullets.
BTW - why silencers and not more ear mufflers like they wear anyway in gun training. Oh, because killing more efficiently is the point. Say thanks to the NRA kids.
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