Hot Take: Salon Says GOP Won’t Budge On Gun Control Because Of 'Right-Wing Male Power Fantasies’

townhall.com ^ | 6/19/2017 | Matt Vespa

[rktman]

On the gun control debate, I’ll extend an olive branch. There are times when the left sort of makes sense about guns. For example, I think we can agree that terrorists should not get their hands on firearms, or at least make it hard for them to do so. Where they go off the hinges is when they try to use that argument to expand the grossly unconstitutional no-fly list program and bar Americans, who haven’t been convicted of any crimes, from being able to exercise their Second Amendment rights. How do you get on the list? How can you get your name removed from it? We don’t know. There’s really no due process. And then, there’s Salon’s analysis of the shooting, which gets into this analysis of how gun marketing is linked to “right-wing male power fantasies,” and how Republicans won’t change their minds about gun control. I know, spoiler alert, right? [Emphasis mine]:

[longfellow]

Black msrket, now they will call you a racist.

[KC Burke]

This guy doesn’t know my wife. Sometimes she wakes up and the first thing she says is something like. “do you have enough rifle ammo?”

[FreedomPoster]

Uh, Mao had it right. Power flows from the barrel of a gun. This is reality, not a fantasy.

[rdcbn]

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” - Chairman Mao.

The Left wants power.

[bmwcyle]

Or God given rights.

[upbeat5]

“The gun industry and the National Rifle Association market guns with promises that owning guns will make a customer feel manly and powerful, and that fantasy has a power that can transcend political boundaries. And no one knows better than gun industry leaders how feelings of political frustration caused by seeing your preferred candidate lose an election can be channeled into a pitch to buy more guns.”

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Yada, yada, yada. More name calling and gender and political divisiveness from the Left. That’s all they got!

[Little Ray]

Depends on the definition of ‘terrorist.’
Depends on whether or not they have a conviction.
There can be no prior restraint - the vilest Moslem Jihadi is entitled to keep and bear arms until he is arrested and he must be convicted before he loses that right permanently.

This is because the Left would unhesitatingly brand veterans, Tea partiers and NRA members as ‘terrorists’ and put us all on ‘no fly lists’ if that was a means to prevent us from keeping and bearing arms.

[Moonman62]

Here’s to ‘Right-Wing Male Power Fantasies’. They are pretty big on free speech, too.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Now we know what fuled Mao, Castro, and every Commie ever (except those in the US, because they're apparently a front for the establishment).

[goodnesswins]

“Right wing male power fantasies” mean this idgit writer lives in a semi free country, for now

[Yo-Yo]

Hot Take: Salon Says GOP Won’t Budge On Gun Control Because Of 'Right-Wing Male Power Fantasies’

Or maybe the GOP won't budge on gun control because in spite of liberal hellholes like Chicago, overall there are more guns than ever in legal hands, more carry permits in legal hands, and violent crime is half of what it was in 1995.

Clearly the problem isn't guns in legal hands, it is liberal hellholes.

[goodnesswins]

Not Vespa, the writer, but the Salon one.

[a fool in paradise]

Says the penis envy pervets who want grown sexually confused men in locker rooms with girls.

[TLI]

Yeah, if you’re going to make at least a half-assed attempt to convince the right about something, don’t quote socialists. Second, the white supremacist that killed two men in Portland during his berating of two Muslim women on a train was, like Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter. Also, I’ve never really seen the NRA market firearm ownership as one that will make you powerful and manly, only that it’s your right enshrined in the Constitution, that it’s a great equalizer for women when facing a potential life-threatening situation, and they’re to be used safely and responsibly. They tell kids what to do if they see an unattended firearm. How to handle them properly when shooting them at the range, and they offer concealed carry courses for law-abiding Americans who wish to carry firearms for their own protection. Liberals always cite statistics about how firearms increase the likelihood of fatal accidents. That’s false. Between 1991-2011, unintentional firearm fatalities dropped 58 percent, according to the National Safety Council. Only 1.5 percent of unintentional deaths of children 14 years of age or younger is attributed to a firearm. In 2017, unintentional firearms fatalities dropped 17 percent between 2015-2016. Also, was that the insinuation that political violence is wrong, but especially bad because…leftist ideas could be squashed?

OK, that needed to be the second paragraph, not the ninth.

As for the olive branch?

Sure, just as soon as I carve it into a bat.

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[wastoute]

I seriously doubt that there is an instance anywhere in history which any group accepted a political loss without defaulting to violence. War is where you go when politics fails and you always get there...

[Maverick68]

We won’t budge on guns because unlike the Left, we are not Sociopaths, we are capable of love and will do anything to protect our families.

[Lurkinanloomin]

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

The founders could not have been any clearer.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sorry morons. Read the friggin’ Bill of Rights. The GOP isn’t “budging” on gun control because of the SECOND AMENDMENT. It’s the one right after your First Amendment, ***holes!

[Pining_4_TX]

Hey, what about right-wing female power fantasies? The guy’s a sexist.

[Mr. K]

“Gosh I’m so embarrassed by his I’ll give in to what they want...”

Is that what they see happening when they write articles this stupid?