I find this very telling about their mindset:
Save it, you can jerk off into it tonight while you dream about shooting people
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Posted on X, May 12, 2024
This was in my set of pending Markley’s Law examples. While it is a sexually related insult to gun owners it is a little too weak for a Markley’s Law Monday posting.
This mindset has the potential to have its own name. The belief that gun owners get sexually aroused by the thought of shooting, or have a desire to shoot, people is surprisingly common.
I think it demonstrates they have a poor theory of mind. There are therapies and drugs that sometimes help these people.
Many people claim that owning a gun makes one want to shoot people.
That makes as much sense as saying that wearing a seatbelt makes one want to get in a car accident, or that owning a fire extinguisher makes one into an arsonist.
It depends. Liberals may operate that way. Consider:
‘I had a liberal colleague giving me grief about guns and that gun owners are crazy, so I just put the question to her – if someone handed you a loaded gun, what would you do with it? She said “I’d look for someone to shoot”. I told her “That’s the difference between me and you – I’d be looking to be sure it was pointed toward a safe place. You’re the one that needs professional help, not me.”‘ — Martin Fischer, Conestoga College (on the bearingarms.com blog)
I can see how it would be difficult for someone with poor impulse control to conceive of someone else that has functional impulse control. Furthermore, such a person would conceive of the proper role of law as taking away capabilities because, in their accurate self-assessed view, capabilities that could lead to bad outcomes unavoidably will, pretty much immediately.
Meanwhile, a person with functioning impulse control can conceive (at least partially) of how a person with poor impulse control would think, for at least two reasons. First, their impulse control locks down on “intrusive thoughts”, so they can conceive of what would happen if they didn’t have self-control. Second, they can see the results of other people acting impulsively or unthinkingly or disinhibited, in the case of drugs or alcohol.
Quite a lot of our basis of law assumes personal self-control. It is implicit in the age of majority: “You’re responsible for yourself as of this date.” Not that you have necessarily demonstrated that, as we find in kids that aren’t fit to be out in public unattended all the way out to 25, and some that never become responsible for the whole of their life (probably because they are sheltered in the walled garden of academia). Meanwhile, there are 15-year-old Eagle Scouts that should have the vote, car keys and an M-4.
I find shooting to be relaxing, almost meditative.
Proper technique — breath control, etc. — is not entirely unlike certain Eastern forms of meditation/ yoga 🧘. More noise & homes in paper, though.
But hey, what do I know?
‘The belief that gun owners get sexually aroused by the thought of shooting, or have a desire to shoot, people is surprisingly common.”
Why a surprise? It’s not like hollywood hasn’t been projecting that message for 50 years now.
That and the projection of gangbanger, cartel, drug culture as a lifestyle for mainstream America.
You mean it ain’t cool to set hookers on fire so you don’t have to pay them when you’re done?
Damn, what’s the world coming to?
And who did Mel Gibson say was running hollywood?
The only time I dream about shooting are the nightmares where either I’m hitting the goblin (usually some sort of monster, not human) to no effect and they keep coming, or when no matter what I do I can not get my firearm to function as said goblin advances