Posted on 10/24/2015 1:44:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
“So if you love guns…then you need to be shot. You need to feel a bullet rip through your flesh, and if you survive and enjoy the feeling—then the right to bear arms will be all yours.”
Salon is a widely known left-wing rag, a den for liberals to cobble together irrational screeds. No doubt, the writing process begins in crayon and on widely ruled hand writing paper, peppered with large chunks of unprocessed wood chips. It actually sparks a bit of nostalgia, since the vast majority of us left those infantile tools behind in preschool. However, liberalism is the creed of the eternally infantile. It isn’t a rationale but merely a collection of assertions; the intellectual equivalent of the fabled caveman’s grunting and wild gesticulating. It’s emotive and is, therefore, extremely popular with the TMZ constituent, whose intellectual development has been stunted by an unrelenting consumption of Kardashian trivia.
D. Watkins scribbles for Salon and produced a piece breathtaking in its psychosis. But, that’s to be expected of a liberal. The experience of the real has no bearing on the fairy tale world of liberalism’s dogma. It’s a Bizaro world where everything is backwards. Up is down because desire, not rationality, forms the basis for every liberal presupposition. But, just for laughs, let’s follow D. Watkins down the rabbit hole.
For most liberals, the issue of violence and mass killings in particular is a question of “gun violence.” Usually, the unstated premise is that but for the presence of a firearm the violent act would not have occurred. For any thinking person this is child’s play. Violence is triggered by the presence of emotion, usually hate. Place a hammer in a room with two amicably disposed people and murder is unlikely to occur simply because the hammer is there. But, this is precisely the argument proffered by liberals like D. Watkins. “Guns break apart families and ruin lives.” It’s laughable.
What isn’t humorous are the Democrat policies and attitudes that promote hopelessness, despair, and inflame the passions of unstable personalities. After roughly fifty years of the Democrat’s war on poverty, more people are on welfare than ever before. The soul crushing mantra from Democrats is you can’t make it without us. You’re not smart enough, determined enough, or privileged; therefore, the American dream is out of your reach unless the government deigns to reach down to you and shepherd you through life. The result is generational impoverishment and reliance on the Democrat party gravy train. Additionally, the racist and inflammatory statements constantly propounded by Democrats, their operatives, and the demonization of law enforcement all combine to produce a perfect storm of misdirected rage. And, rage doesn’t need a bullet to kill. In fact, contrary to Watkins’ infantile assertions, the worst mass killings have been perpetrated with explosives, which are and have been strictly controlled. Weren’t three thousand Americans killed when two commercial jets were weaponized?
Watkins’ misdirection is probably unconscious but typical. Since liberalism, at it’s root, is a political construct and alibi for license, placing blame on an object or circumstance, rather than asserting personal responsibility, is central to its ethos. Criminals aren’t responsible for their actions, so they are placed in institutions to be rehabilitated. Homosexuality isn’t a choice but a function of biology. Poverty isn’t a product of poor choices; it’s the result of institutional unfairness, racism, or victimization by rapacious capitalists. And finally, violence isn’t a problem of the spirit, of the disintegration of the traditional family, or of the unrelenting messaging of a thug culture—it’s a gun problem. And, Democrats know it’s such an easy sell. It’s in our nature and as ancient as the Garden of Eden. When Adam was confronted with his sin he actually blamed Eve and God. It’s so much easier to believe that fault lies with something external to ourselves.
Another favorite device of the anti-gun Left is the straw man argument. Watkins states that Dr. Ben Carson makes “matters worse” by offering “guns as a solution to everything.” Second Amendment advocates have yet to offer the proliferation of guns as a solution to the tale of climate change. No one has ever suggested that guns are the solution to poverty. Nor, does the NRA suggest that placing a firearm in everyone’s possession will solve the issue of mass killings. What is asserted is that good people with guns always thwart bad people with guns. And, in law enforcement circles, it is a proven law of nature that active shooters always stop their killing as soon as someone bearing arms confronts them.
Watkins is right about the futility of “more rigorous gun laws coupled with a stricter screening process and plans that are never clear or properly fleshed out.” But, this is by design. Like most liberals, Watkins is a dupe of the Democrat ruling class. Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton could care less about the deaths caused by homicidal individuals. Chicago, Detroit, New York all have the strictest gun laws in the country and yet are plagued by violent crime. What Democrats desire is power and if they have to climb over a mountain of corpses to acquire the power they desire, then so be it. Real solutions aren’t offered because violence is a canard.
Firearms are tools of power and as such, in the hands of the people, they are a democratizing element. Democrats and RINOs desire the coalescence of power in Washington. So, guns represent a threat to that objective. Never wasting a good crisis, Democrats politicize every mass shooting with the simple objective of parting as many citizens as possible from their gun rights—their civil rights.
Finally, Watkins makes an incredibly ironic “argument.” He says, “Gun praisers are just like the people who were in favor of slavery back in the day…” The Dred Scott case, where the Supreme Court held that blacks were mere chattel, argued that if blacks were to be considered citizens they would have the same right to keep and bear arms as white citizens. Chief Justice Taney (appointed by a Democrat) was horrified by this idea—that blacks would possess the means to free themselves. The “gun praisers” that Watkins vilifies would have been the abolitionists back in the day. One would think that black Americans would be the most vociferous defendants of Second Amendment civil rights, since their not so distant ancestors felt the searing pain of the lash having been stripped of the ability to defend their natural rights.
Great. I’m all for it!
But if you advocate for homosexual marriage you need to be sodomized.
That would dramatically reduce the population.
Leftist promotion of gun violence like this is a serious mental issue.
The stupid... is epic.
Yes, TX food is generally pretty good. There is/was a pretty good BBQ joint in Bartlesville.
So, you want to go hunting gun owners, Mr. John Nantz?
uh, I think Dee Wallace is the one hunting gun owners; Mr John Nantz is the author of the article...
Psychotic, Progressive scu#bags always want to do violence to those who don’t agree with them.
If you scratch the surface a bit, you’ll find a raving, visceral, veins-popping-irrational, ignorant moron whose lust and desire for blood are always pleading for revenge.
IMHO
Salon unequivocally demonstrates the necessity of private firearm ownership.
it is extremely offensive to lump law abiding gun owners in with violent criminals.
if we lumped all women as goldiggers and whores because goldiggers and whores are out there?...
if we lumped all guys as rapists...?
if we lumped all car drivers as drunk drivers because some drive drunk?
to see how hypocritical gun banners are, bvecause of criminals they paint law abiding gun owners as criminals that need to be under more laws and restrictions. crooks mwill ignore them like always.
not even drunk driver nuts go that far and drunks kill way more people than guns each year, by far. but drunk drivr groups only want restrictions and bans on the actual unk drivers. they dont say because of drunk drivers every single driver must have a breathalyzer ignition system, just the actual drunk drivers. the gun grabbers are gun grabbers because they dont push for restrictions on the known criminals, they push for laws that hurt and penalize and restrict law abiding people.
gun grabbers mentality would be like drunk driver groups sayign all peoples cars need breathalyzer ignition systems regardless if they are drunk drivers or not. it would be like womens groups demanding all men toregister as sex offenders regardless if they are one or not.
that is how you know their solutions have nothing to do with curbing criminals, it is all about incremental gun banning and confiscation, step by step.
These f*tards need to be very careful about advocating violence on people.
Especially on people who can fight back.
It’s no wonder they want all gun owners shot. They assume that gun owners are irrational and violent like they are.
What this tells me is that if we need to have stricter gun laws it should be to keep guns out of the hands of violent liberal kooks.
Actually, Democrats don't want to climb over a mountain of corpses to acquire power; they want the power to create a mountain of corpses and rule from atop it.
How about everyone at Salon that supports abortion get to feel being aborted. ie. take big forceps and rip them asunder, limb from limb...then it will be okay for them to support abortion.
Drawn and quartering works for me.
If you love abortion... Then you need to be dismembered... You need to feel the cartilage tearing from your joints, one by one...
Gads, beat me to it...
I immediately thought of the bleak dystopian novella "Anthem", which graphically illustrates the ultimate extension of this socialist shepherding. The elimination of the concept of the nominative singular pronoun sends chills up my spine whenever I am unfortunate enough to be reminded of it. Damn them all to hell for advancing one of the greatest evils known to humanity.
Amen to that.
Like a watchman on the wall, we must toll the warning bell.
Let it ring out... “WAKE UP!”
Plead and encourage your family and friends to not succumb to the promise of “free stuff,” and social equalization promised by politicians who have failed to improve the standard of living and way of life for the very people they claim to help.
They never had any intention of “helping.” They have every intention of “controlling.”
They want to ensure permanent voting blocks, taking advantage of people in bad circumstances...which circumstances they themselves have created and then continually promises to “fix”...a fix which never comes.
In fact, the only “fix” is that the “fix is in.”
Lead them to divorce themselves from the Pied Piper mentality these leftist politicians and race baiters, and divisive, class-envy promoters are peddling!
Teach them to hold fast to the time-honored traditions and values we all hold dear as Americans...depending on our God and ourselves to provide as best we can for ourselves, and depending on families, our churches, and private charitable organizations to help when in need...and not a government and politicans who want to use the needy for their own ends. No longer listen to or give credence to the absolutely misleading, illogic of the progressive left.
Faith in God, strong families, hard work, personal responsibility, honesty, integrity, the free market, and a reliance on our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the answers. No one can “give you,” happiness. We must use these fundamental values to pursue and find it for ourselve!
THAT is the promise of America...that we are all free to do so.
If there’s one thing to learn from how Donald Trump operates, it’s to both go on the offensive and rapidly reply to any counterattacks.
That SOP needs to be happen more and more.
““So if you love guns…then you need to be shot. You need to feel a bullet rip through your flesh, and if you survive and enjoy the feeling—then the right to bear arms will be all yours.””
No problem, only it has to be a DUEL at 50 paces : )
I can see the bodies accumulate, and they won’t be OURS.
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