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Conservatives for abolishing the fact of evil: why guns and mental illness are not the real problem
WND ^ | October 8, 2015 | Ilana Mercer

Posted on 10/09/2015 9:09:49 AM PDT by Perseverando

The public personas who pass as conservatives are not system builders. We know them as conservatives not by their well thought-out, philosophically consistent thinking, but because they’ve staked out certain positions on The Issues, over time.

“Gun violence” is the term used by conservatives with this messy habit of mind. A careful thinker would allude to “goon violence.”

“For guns are not the root cause of man’s evil actions. Neither are the multiplying categories of manufactured illness in the psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Evil is integral to the human condition, always has been, always will be. Evil can’t be wished away, treated away, medicated away or legislated away. It is here to stay.”

In cahoots with their left-liberal partners in crime, conservative jurists, journalists, politicians and pundits now routinely debase this moral vocabulary. “Gun violence,” they all jabber, is caused by mental illness.

Their cure for goon violence: Bring in the big therapeutic guns to do the diagnosing. With state imprimatur, the witch doctors will lay the “scientific” cornerstone for walling-in society’s oddballs.

Democrats concur: If someone does something awfully wicked, he must have an illness as real as cancer or Alzheimer’s.

Still, progressives are pioneers in abolishing the fact of evil and replacing it with a diagnosis amenable to state intervention. Did not Joseph Stalin replace the wisdom of the ages with a scientific system that deployed the therapeutic idiom to murder and imprison dissenters? Yes he did.

But while they dare not cop to it openly, a secondary goal exclusive to progressives is to destroy the very idea of a self-reliant citizenry.

Left-liberals would dearly love to disarm all citizens (bar their own security details), to better resemble the “enlightened” Eurocracy. In today’s backward Britain, home of the Magna Carta, the police now instruct

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; harpermercer; mentalhealth; roseburg; umpqua
A good article on the root cause of gun violence (and all violence).

Want to reduce crime? How about we try gun control for democrats? </snark>

1 posted on 10/09/2015 9:09:50 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Clearly this is a giant version of The Chaos Model....

In a Business (or Government, same thing) if the leadership maintains a strict “elevator” model (decisions only from the top) and Chaos is the order of the day...

Alinsky, create unease in the Population to drive a cry for “something” (key word) done about it, now!!

And of course who rides the Horse?

The “Leaders”

We are such children, we went through all that education and we need so much guidance to survive

Guns like any other weapon are for hunting and protection, from Criminals and a Government who seeks to put you under submission...

Like these Obozos do...

That way they can proceed, unimpeded towards their ultimate goals


2 posted on 10/09/2015 9:19:54 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Perseverando

“In today’s backward Britain, home of the Magna Carta, the police now instruct their subjects that “the only fully legal self-defense product … is a rape alarm.”

This always fascinates me. Lets say you are strictly forbidden from using violence to protect yourself. So you blow the rape whistle or push your alarm button. Help comes. Is the person who responds allowed to use any violence? What is the difference?


3 posted on 10/09/2015 9:26:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: 100American

On a more serious note, how about if we try gun control for democrats? And if it works.... then we won’t have to do anything else. And if it doesn’t work, then we will have kept guns out of the hands of the mentally challenged.


4 posted on 10/09/2015 9:27:36 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: Perseverando

It is a start!!


5 posted on 10/09/2015 9:28:59 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Perseverando

German “psychology” is to destroy the concept of “sin” and the need for religion.

The Leftists know that there is no removal of faith from anyone——that that transfer of “faith” from Christianity to the State is done only through stealth-—since Western Civ was so solidly Christian for hundreds of years.

By controlling Words “gun violence”-—it is particularly the little children who are embedding this concept in their subconscious-—it creates “cognitive dissonance” when they are finally exposed to the Truth and Reason.

Brainwashing through repetition and repeating the Big Lie-—is all the Marxists do in public school curricula-—filling our children with lies and non-sensical terms that defy Truth and Logic, which create non-thinking drones and useful idiots only.

Reason and logic only comes with Classical Education and Christian Worldview-—which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science and our “Justice (virtue) System”. The MSM brainwashing is to destroy Reason and Logic——and they distort Words and Language to do it.

Children have a foundation of lies and misinformation from years in the indoctrination centers——and there is NO ability to “think” rationally. It is all “emotional” thinking.....which is NO thinking. (If it feels good, it is good).


6 posted on 10/09/2015 9:40:10 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Perseverando
Another way of approaching it is to get your garden variety liberal to admit that an outright gun ban will not work so they need to do it step by step (salami tactics). So propose that certain groups of people be prohibited from owning firearms and start with the most violence-prone groups. Propose to confiscate their guns and then expand the confiscation to the rest of society. They might agree with this approach. Then you whip out the FBI Uniform Crimes report from almost any year and identify XXX, the most violence-prone population group. Then you ask, "So you agree that we should take guns away from XXX's?" The response will be that they want to take guns away from everyone, not just XXX's? But then you have them agreeing to wanting to take guns away from XXX's just like their forbears in the Ku Klux Klan used to do.
7 posted on 10/09/2015 9:54:19 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Perseverando

I find it interesting that liberals simply cannot acknowledge the existence of evil.

Some (all?) of them seem to think that the concept of evil is only possible in a religious context. I wholeheartedly disagree.

There is true evil in our world. One definition IMO is people wanting to rule and dominate others for no reason other than they want to rule and dominate others who are doing nothing to them, have done nothing to them and will do nothing to them.

That fits a lot of liberals (and so called non liberals). There is genuine evil in Washington, and it is not limited to a few people.


8 posted on 10/09/2015 9:57:39 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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There is true evil in our world. One definition IMO is people wanting to rule and dominate others for no reason other than they want to rule and dominate others who are doing nothing to them, have done nothing to them and will do nothing to them.

That's part of the reason I chose my current tagline.

9 posted on 10/09/2015 10:04:45 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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