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Listen, having covered too many of these shootings, you know, and a wide array of circumstances, schools and others, one thing we know is that there’ll be a lot of discussion afterwards about security measures, rhetoric perhaps as well. There won’t be any substantive discussion of access to weapons, right? There just won’t because it’s — I mean, we’ve been down this path so many times, right? That’s just a part of the discussion you don’t go to.
Jim Sciutto
April 26, 2026
CNN.com – Transcripts
Archer had the best response to this sort of claim I have ever seen:
I’m always amused (in an ironic sense) after every high-profile mass shooting, when the Left comes out of the woodwork and says, “We need to have a national conversation on guns!”
Bruh, where have you been? We’ve all been HAVING a “national conversation on guns” since 1934. I joined it personally about two decades ago, give or take. It has never ended.
And we’ve invited the Left to engage. We’ve reached out. We’ve offered to discuss and find common ground. And we’ve been ignored at every stretch … until they can use a high-profile murder scene to claim that we obstinately refuse to discuss the issue.
They don’t just lie about guns, or gun owners, or the facts. They go so far as to lie about “the conversation” itself, as if we’ve all been refusing to have a conversation, when the reality is we’ve been having a conversation and invited them, but they refused to join.
When they can’t even be honest about the conversation they say they want to have, why should we trust them on anything else?
Why can’t they be honest? Because their culture is based on lies.
So WRT guns, the left is really no different than a defective LLM, hallucinating about what had and had not already been discussed or established as fact.
i.e., many of them are just NPCs regurgitating the programming.
That’s funny.
I’ve been experiment with Claude Code for software development, and it’s impressive in some ways, but yeah, it does forget a lot.
Wait until the Left starts using bombs again. Common sense bomb control anyone. Like 1919 when they tried to kill AG Palmer and nearly got FDR by accident. Leftists being targeted by someone further left is common. Or drones. Or drones with bombs.
Dang, you’ve quoted my ramblings two days in a row.
I’m honored. Thank you for finding value in them. 🙂
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I disagree on the conversation. We had that conversation a couple of centuries ago and wrote down the decision from that conversation. Everybody signed off on that decision in 1791. Just like a 10yo trying to get me to buy him or her that one thing, I’m not listening anymore. I said, “No,” and I mean it.
But, if you *really* want to talk, let’s talk about the changes *you* have made in our culture over the last 100 years, and how that affects the level of “violence” and criminality in our society.
We as a species have been having this discussion since at least Roman times.
Senaca: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Funny how the discussion hasn’t changed since then.
Jesus: And he that has no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.
When you consider that the sword was the “assault weapon” of the era — having no purpose other than self-defense or combat; other weapons have other uses (spears and bows are equally useful for hunting, axes for chopping wood, knives for any and everything), but not swords — it becomes even more meaningful that Jesus would say we should have them.
(And before anyone else brings it up, yeah, the disciples checked their inventories and found two swords among the 13 men present, and Jesus said “It is enough.” To which I say, this means not everyone is called to be armed at all times, but all should have arms available if they are so called.)
It isn’t really a “conversation” they want. It is for us to shut up, bend over, and take whatever gun control measure they want to pass at the moment without complaint
The left doesn’t want to “engage”, there is NO common ground. ALL the left wants is to RULE with impunity and that requires TOTAL disarmament of EVERYONE they don’t control. Discussing guns or gun control is no different than treaty negotiations with commies like Russia and China. It’s POINTLESS. There attitude is and has ALWAYS been “what’s MINE is MINE, what’s YOURS is what we are negotiating for”. There can be NO coexisting with the left….THEIR rules.