On a Facebook conversation, had a lady in an argument regarding guns say “I just don’t feel like supporting the 2nd Amendment today” based on the recent shooting. I asked her if she dumped the 1st Amendment as soon as someone got on TV and said something she didn’t agree with, but I got no response.
Tragedies do not change the reasons we have rights. Our opponents revel in these tragedies. I’m not saying they’re actually gleeful that children were murdered or that they’re high fiving each other in the break room over it, but these tragedies are their bread and butter. Without them, these organizations wouldn’t even exist (and they’re barely doing that now). These horrific people actually use our solemnity against us.
So, while being respectful is a good thing, and not lowering ourselves to their levels is what makes us a better group of people, we have to remember they will not take a break and every day is a day for supporting rights. The 2nd Amendment did not kill those children, an insane man did. Mass murders have occurred and will continue to occur all over the globe, and no amount of demonizing rights will change that.
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Our Elected Employees really should keep in mind that a lot of Blood was spilled to secure them and to maintain them, and they have no Authority to discard them.
Just ask King George the 3rd.
Yes. Earlier this year, a father in Texas caught a man about to rape his very young daughter, and in the process of pulling the scum off of her, the father ended up beating the bastard to death.
That was a VERY good act.
I don't really want a response to this -- it's just something I've been mulling over.
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We don't have much critical thought in the media, or we would not hear about a madman murdering people with stolen guns he would not have qualified to buy in the first place, and within hours news presenters are talking about how the gun laws are too lax, instead of asking why wasn't a schizophrenic who in fact scared people committed?
I mean, we don't blame Dewar's or Coors or Johnny Walker when a drunk gets in a car and kills people in an accident, we don't even blame the instrumentality there, so why the difference? A tool has no moral awareness. It is the depraved heart that kills, whether it kills with a gun, a knife, a quart of gasoline, or a pen.
So long as we trot out the old tropes and medicines, carried by the thoughtless talkers, we won't stop this from happening.
As to stopping these types of shootings we will never stop all of them from happening.
Schizophrenics are easy to identify compared to psychopaths/ sociopaths who know how to act according to social norms and how to appear "normal" when needed.
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Crappy things going on, and we still don't know what happened.