Posted on 01/03/2015 5:35:42 AM PST by rktman
Besides sheer ignorance, that is. John Hinderaker at Power Line does a number on Adam Gopnik’s latest anti-gun musings in The New Yorker:
No one expects sensible commentary on firearms from the New Yorker, but this gun control rant is worth noting because it is so typical of modern liberalism. Facts? Who needs facts? Bullying is all that the left aspires to.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Progressives want to eliminate guns because they are afraid of them in the hands of those they wish to dominate.
IMHO
Screw the “manufacturer” idea—though they would like to, I’m sure.
They want YOUR guns.
They have plans.
They want YOU to do things you don’t WANT to do—and will try to use force to make you do them.
That’s hard, when you’re the one backed up with a .45, or 9mm, or .38, or even a .22.
“Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority.” Daniel Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/03/shadow-of-gun.html
> Progressives want to eliminate guns because they are afraid of them in the hands of those they wish to dominate.
IMHO
This and the fact that they want their “big brother” to snatch them out of your hands because he told them that’s what he wanted. They go long with him because they think they he loves them and will always protect them. Never once do they consider that he might turn on and beat the crap out of them too. They’re not only naieve; they’re incredibly stupid. Critical thinking skills? Who needs ‘em? Big brother does it for them...
The Shorten-Fagaly approach to jurisprudence.
Liberal hatred of weapons comes from two distinct sources:
1. It is a symptom of the infantile mental illness that fears responsibility, which is a core reason for liberals desire to be controlled. Frued wrote about this extensively.
2. The cynical leaders know unarmed people are easier to control. All laws are ultimately enforced at the point of a gun.
Go & read Amitai Etzioni, the author of “communitarianism”, a friendly local neighborhood form of fascism, where residents are organized to isolate & harass those who do not conform to “communitarian” standards. He thinks it would work well on recalcitrant gun owners.
Another champion of ostracizing gun rights supporters is Josh Sugarmann. Forget doctors who question you about your guns, ol’ Josh will send the neighborhood kids’ parents over to interrogate you about guns in your house & then condemn you to pariahdom if you do.
Two Orwellian approaches to gun control that require no legislation, just changing the culture a la Janet Reno & Diane Feinstein.
“Gun owners simply are not our kind of people.”
Well said! Everyone should print your post on a card and use it for arguments with anti-gun liberals. It really does come down to one of those two things for every single anti-gun person.
“We Kinda Agree With Mao That Political Power Comes Largely From The Barrel Of A Gun” UPDATE: With A Bit Of Context
Meet Ron Bloom, Obama’s Manufacturing Czar, seems he’s also a fan of Lee Atwater or something.
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=293825
I see lots of check marks there.
More than guns, they hate gun owners, as they hate everyone who disagrees with them.
LOL! They don’t disagree with us. They just know that we are WRONG. No disagreement there.
First off, they’re not progressives. They are regressives. Want us all to go backward in time and live like animals. That is the regressive goal. Of course, they think they will be the top dogs.
Exactly! Their problem with guns is that you can have them. Liberals love guns and have no problem using them as a means to their goals.
If a carmaker made a car that was known to be wildly unsafe, and then advertised it as unsafe, liabilities would result.
Faulty, very faulty logic. Every single car/truck/motorcycle made and/or sold in the US is, in fact, "wildly unsafe." That is, wildly unsafe if mis-used. Just look at the deaths per year due to car accidents - it is roughly twice as many as firearms.
To make their vehicles safer manufacturers install airbags, ABS, bumpers, side-impact beams, energy absorbing crumple zones, seat belts, etc. Guess what, firearms have been made safer through additions of such features as safeties, firing mechanisms that are drop-safe, loaded chamber indicators, etc.
The fundamental fault in the author's "logic" {snort} is the notion that product producers should be held liable for any and every way their customers can/do mis-use their products. The idea is absurd, and would immediately put every single business out of business.
If I climb a ladder, then reach way out to the side and fall off...can I sue the ladder manufacturer for my own stupidity and misuse of the ladder? If I get drunk and drive my car into a crowd of people, can they sue the car maker? The tire maker? The gas station that sold me the gas? Nike for providing the shoes that enabled me to drive? My high school for teaching me driver's ed?
What this liberal (and basically all liberals today) misses is the point that people have to take responsibility for their actions. It isn't the fault of the product manufacturer when some fool or misguided/maladjusted individual does something dumb/dangerous/different with their product.
While that is a common problem with modern liberals - the lack of appreciation of personal responsibility - I don't think that is the primary driver here. That is just a convenient and familiar meme for them. The real objective is to put firearms manufacturers out of business, or at the very least increase their cost of doing business (and thus their product costs) to the point no-one, or very few people, could afford to own one. That's the real objective - disarming private citizens. (I'll let you speculate as to why this continues to be so important to these fascist types) What is again so common with modern liberals is the unintended consequences. By attempting to set this precedent they don't see or don't care what the impact would be on the entire business community. Or maybe that's just a happy accident and they want to end private enterprise too.
That's a pretty good one-line summation of modern liberals! ;-)
“Progressives want to eliminate guns because they are afraid of them in the hands of those they wish to dominate.”
Yes, 100+ million people killed in the last century by regimes who first ordered firearms confiscation, criminals aren’t our biggest threat.
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