Just because someone has a gun does not mean they worship the gun or violence. Look at all the major oppressive murdering regimes and what was the first thing they did? They completely disarmed their population.
I did not say that. Some people have a rational relationship to their firearms, they see as a tool they might need for hunting, sport or job. But in the US there way too many people with a very irrational relationship to their guns, creating a violence based ideology around gun ownership. I'm talking about the ones who love to pose with their arsenal, wanting to display their gun in public or just wanna talk about their little darlings all the time in NRA meetings. These are the ones we need to be scared of. They don't own their guns, they are owned by them.
I have friends, who go hunting on a regular base. Their guns are locked away and they do not occupy a large part of their lives. They just take them, when they need them and after that they go back into the locker and are of no further importance to them. I'm not worried about them. I'm more worried about that guy who lives two blocks further down the road who seems to be obsessed by his firearms, who talks frequently about them and how much he needs them in case "plunderers" from the city will come for his vegetable garden. This nutcase should not have any lethal arms at all. Who knows what will trigger him some day.
You are making assumptions about people who own guns without facts to back it up. "In the US there are way too many people with an irrational relationship to their guns". How do you know that? Have you personally interviewed every gun owner? Your comments are over reaching. You are talking about a SMALL MINORITY who go around posing with their guns. It's a gross exaggeration.
I didn't say that. Being educated doesn't make You immune to manipulation. But it's really telling that those who try to propagate views similar to Your's even themselves admit that they prefer to deal with uneducated people, because they are easier prey. That doesn't necessarily mean that all of their victims are uneducated, it just means the uneducated are overrepresented amongst their sheeplike followers.
I would never make any assumption about a person's education and intelligence just based on one post in social media. You can believe that.
And I didn’t see a single person with an alter to their guns nor a single reference to a person praying to their guns as a god.
Nice try but your attempt of understanding the Paradox of Tolerance is at a 6th grade level (you did cite NBC).
But if you tolerate violence, you will be ruled by violence.
A gun is an inanimate object incapable of independent action. It can be an instrument of violence but so can a car, a knife, a baseball bat, a rock or any of a hundred other instruments. The radical left’s full tolerance of political violence and excuse of violence by blaming inanimate objects is simply stunning from a rational standpoint.
Guns are a means of violence. If You welcome guns into Your society You welcome violence. It's certainly no coincidence that the US is the country with most privately owned guns and being plagued by daily mass shootings. That's what happens when a society loves guns more than its children. We can see it every night on TV news.
Baseball bats are made for playing baseball, a car is made as a means of transportation, a hammer is made to hammer nails in. A knife is made to slice bread. Sure these things can also be used to kill, but that's not what they are made for. Whereas guns are made for the purpose of killing and that's what people are using them for. I for example do not kill and therefore I do not own any gun. Why would I ? I don't have any need for a gun.
Cars a means of violence. White silence is a means of violence. Owning property is a means of violence. Speech is a means of violence.
Your 2nd grade mentality of "if you welcome guns into you society you welcome violence" can be disproved with a single idea. Violence existed long before guns.
Please tell me you have a thought deeper than a 5th grader.
I don’t own a gun either, but a gun is a means of defense and a force equalizer. For a woman who has been physically overwhelmed by a stronger man and raped, carrying a gun and learning to use it is a perfectly reasonable act. For someone who lives in a dangerous neighborhood without the financial means to leave and is in regular danger when s/he moves around (or even at home), having a gun and knowing how to use it is, again, a perfectly reasonable act. Just cause you don’t have a need for a gun doesn’t mean no one else does.
If you tolerate crime, you will be ruled by criminals.
If you tolerate corruption, you will be ruled by corrupt people.
If you tolerate degeneracy, you will be ruled by degenerates.
This is the solution to Paradox of Tolerance. Tolerance, by itself, is not a virtue.
And if You worship guns You will be ruled and killed by the gun.
Just because someone has a gun does not mean they worship the gun or violence. Look at all the major oppressive murdering regimes and what was the first thing they did? They completely disarmed their population.
I did not say that. Some people have a rational relationship to their firearms, they see as a tool they might need for hunting, sport or job. But in the US there way too many people with a very irrational relationship to their guns, creating a violence based ideology around gun ownership. I'm talking about the ones who love to pose with their arsenal, wanting to display their gun in public or just wanna talk about their little darlings all the time in NRA meetings. These are the ones we need to be scared of. They don't own their guns, they are owned by them.
I have friends, who go hunting on a regular base. Their guns are locked away and they do not occupy a large part of their lives. They just take them, when they need them and after that they go back into the locker and are of no further importance to them. I'm not worried about them. I'm more worried about that guy who lives two blocks further down the road who seems to be obsessed by his firearms, who talks frequently about them and how much he needs them in case "plunderers" from the city will come for his vegetable garden. This nutcase should not have any lethal arms at all. Who knows what will trigger him some day.
You are making assumptions about people who own guns without facts to back it up. "In the US there are way too many people with an irrational relationship to their guns". How do you know that? Have you personally interviewed every gun owner? Your comments are over reaching. You are talking about a SMALL MINORITY who go around posing with their guns. It's a gross exaggeration.
Show me the person that has an alter of guns and prays to it every night and I’ll agree with you. Nice try but you had a swing and a miss.
Here You'll find plenty examples of gun crazy Americans taking their gun cult to the next level:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fourth-july-musings-americas-gun-culture-viral-photos-rcna36397
The mind is the weapon. Anything you grasp is an implement. A tool. The leftist hive mind has you. You're being utilized as a tool.
What makes You think it isn't You who gets "utilized as a tool"? By those who "love the uneducated"? Because they are much easier to manipulate?
LoL. I'm uneducated. Come take something from me. Bring friends.
I didn't say that. Being educated doesn't make You immune to manipulation. But it's really telling that those who try to propagate views similar to Your's even themselves admit that they prefer to deal with uneducated people, because they are easier prey. That doesn't necessarily mean that all of their victims are uneducated, it just means the uneducated are overrepresented amongst their sheeplike followers.
I would never make any assumption about a person's education and intelligence just based on one post in social media. You can believe that.
In your world Afghanistan would have been conquered in Antiquity.
And I didn’t see a single person with an alter to their guns nor a single reference to a person praying to their guns as a god.
Nice try but your attempt of understanding the Paradox of Tolerance is at a 6th grade level (you did cite NBC).
But if you tolerate violence, you will be ruled by violence.
A gun is an inanimate object incapable of independent action. It can be an instrument of violence but so can a car, a knife, a baseball bat, a rock or any of a hundred other instruments. The radical left’s full tolerance of political violence and excuse of violence by blaming inanimate objects is simply stunning from a rational standpoint.
Guns are a means of violence. If You welcome guns into Your society You welcome violence. It's certainly no coincidence that the US is the country with most privately owned guns and being plagued by daily mass shootings. That's what happens when a society loves guns more than its children. We can see it every night on TV news.
Baseball bats are made for playing baseball, a car is made as a means of transportation, a hammer is made to hammer nails in. A knife is made to slice bread. Sure these things can also be used to kill, but that's not what they are made for. Whereas guns are made for the purpose of killing and that's what people are using them for. I for example do not kill and therefore I do not own any gun. Why would I ? I don't have any need for a gun.
Cars a means of violence. White silence is a means of violence. Owning property is a means of violence. Speech is a means of violence.
Your 2nd grade mentality of "if you welcome guns into you society you welcome violence" can be disproved with a single idea. Violence existed long before guns.
Please tell me you have a thought deeper than a 5th grader.
I don’t own a gun either, but a gun is a means of defense and a force equalizer. For a woman who has been physically overwhelmed by a stronger man and raped, carrying a gun and learning to use it is a perfectly reasonable act. For someone who lives in a dangerous neighborhood without the financial means to leave and is in regular danger when s/he moves around (or even at home), having a gun and knowing how to use it is, again, a perfectly reasonable act. Just cause you don’t have a need for a gun doesn’t mean no one else does.
“In the Bible Jesus said to love…..”
-leftist blasphemer who manipulates and exploits scripture to score political points