Quote of the Day
The very individuals who have long championed gun control as a solution to gun violence are now celebrating the tragic killing of a CEO by someone who was radicalized and used a 3D-printed firearm. These same voices once lauded an attacker who nearly assassinated Donald Trump. Such reactions reveal obvious inconsistency, suggesting that their stance on gun violence are politically motivated rather than rooted in principle.
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Posted on X on December 10, 2024
“… politically motivated rather than rooted in principle.” is a good hypothesis. I would like to contribute another hypothesis.
These are people who decide right from wrong almost entirely based on their emotions. Children who are victims of a mass shooter causes them to feel bad and this means guns must be bad. If someone they don’t like is murdered with a gun, then they feel good. This associates guns with their good feelings, and they have no wish to condemn the gun.
I think there is a more important point to be made here. There is a nothing but a thin veneer of civilization over these people. The threshold for them to accept the murder of someone is shockingly low. This can explain riots, lynch mobs, and genocide. Blood lust is a real thing and only barely suppressed in some people.
Prepare appropriately.
The mob mentality is just below the surface in many humans. That’s one reason the 2nd amendment is so important. It allows that 110 pound octogenarian to protect themselves from the 19 year old 220 pound thug and for common citizens to effectively resist a tyrannical government. Read the history of Athens Tennessee…. And my 60 round Surefire magazines and Armalite style rifles will hopefully allow me to protect me and mine from any foreseeable mob in my suburban area. God grant it never comes to that!
In related news, I see that Canada has reached an all-time high for suicides, now that assisted-suicide is broadly promoted. Hey, it’s good for the planet and saves paying out on pesky medical treatments!
So, why is it that US liberals embrace socialist concepts like euthanasia, but decry suicide by firearm as unbearable “gun violence”? Seems to me that hated gun owners offing themselves would be a source of jubilation? But since guns are bad, having those depressed vets shooting themselves serves a dual purpose – publicly they can decry gun violence and push for more gun control, while secretly they are cheering that another gun owner is gone.
It all depends on who’s experiencing the aftermath of the unbearable gun violence. The family of the now deceased person wishes the guns had already been banned. The neighbors wish he had chosen a quieter method of seeking his own salvation as the saying used to be. The people promoting Euthanasia wish he had used one of their methods, under their supervision and with their assistance, so they might have made money off the regrettable event. Doctors and others who prescribe and make medications to prevent despair wish he had come to them first.
Newflash….there is but a thin veneer of civilization over EVERYBODY. All it takes is the correct motivation for people to drop the pretense of being civilized and act based on their wishes, desires or wants. For some that veneer is toilet paper thin.
“Blood lust is a real thing and only barely suppressed in some people.”
Perfectly said.
And as Dan alludes too. In all people actually.
Concisely or sub-consciously, that’s the real reason they want us defenseless, and we stubbornly refuse to give up our guns.
They demand the power to unleash bloodlust with impunity.
We demand the power to stop it the instant it occurs.
Everything else is just some ignorant communist argument for authority.