"Maher said, “I do not love my gun. That’s the…problem with these Second Amendment people. They love guns. For them, it’s not just that guns should be available; it’s that they’re seen as awesome. They go into Chipotle with their rifles. They go on dates with their guns. They take selfies with their guns. They teach their kids to kill with them. They give them as gifts. It’s a sickness.”"
Where does Bill Maher the atheist get off assuming some sort of transcendent standard of proper and improper cognitive functioning of human beings? In his worldview human beings are the product of blind, purposeless evolutionary forces, and beliefs and affections are the result of electrical impulses in the brain.
So how does he account for his notion than there is something "wrong" with or "unhealthy" about gun lovers' cognitive abilities and affections? In his naturalistic worldview how is it even possible for there to be a deficiency, flaw or intellectual dysfunction, or to deviate from some "correct", "right "or "natural" condition? In other words, sickness compared to what? More electrical impulses in other brains? How is it even possible in his world view to deviate from a natural condition in some "improper" way?
“Where does Bill Maher the atheist get off assuming some sort of transcendent standard of proper and improper cognitive functioning of human beings?”
That is easy. He sees himself as able to determine good and evil.
He sees himself as god.
It is what Satan promised Eve, in Genesis.