Posted on 08/06/2019 7:38:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Maybe this time will be different. That’s the thought on the minds of many Americans now.
Two mass shootings in 24 hours have left at least 31 people murdered and many dozens more wounded. This, just a few days after a shooter at a festival in California killed three and wounded a dozen — with shooting sprees in Brooklyn, Chicago and Mississippi that also left people dead, dozens wounded and communities shaken.
President Donald Trump addressed the nation today but failed to mention the two most important words in this debate: background checks. While he said he supports a federal red-flag law, which allows law enforcement to remove guns from those who pose serious mental-health risks, he has yet to push for it. And he pinned more blame on video games and the internet than on our laws that enable such horrific violence — the usual dodge.
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Get rid of your bodyguards with guns first ahole.
Anger leads to hate - hate leads to suffering. - Yoda.
Laws passed in the heat of emotion are bad laws. Period.
The Road to Hell begins with “We Need to do Something!”
Crossing the Rubicon: “alea iacta est” — The Die is Cast ~
In January of 49 B.C,, former Governor Julius Caesar ordered his 13th Legion to cross the Rubicon River in Northern Italy on his way to Rome. The act of allowing a Roman army past the Rubicon was forbidden by the Roman Senate, and constituted treason and a capital offense against the people of Rome. This precipitated the Roman Civil War, which led to the period of Imperial Rome, and then to the eventual downfall of the Roman Republic in 27 B.C.
Now, we’re confronted with another sentinel event. Following the mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton over an 8-day period, anti-American Socialists and their media lackeys have redoubled their efforts to impose stricter gun controls, with the ultimate objective of disarming the American populace. For totalitarian ideologues, this has always been “Priority #1,” just as it was in Germany, Russia, China, North Korea, Romania, Cuba, Venezuela and all other statist countries.
But what makes this attempt particularly onerous, as if we don’t already have a surveillance state, is an announced effort to use social networks to identify individuals (Pre-Crime) who might pose a future threat to the safety of Americans — in essence “Thought Crimes.” But what is the nexus between personal beliefs. homicidal ideation and actualization? What are the key surveillance criteria,or sets of criteria that will be used to sift through millions of posts, “tweets” and emails? And, who will develop them and their monitoring algorithms?
History is replete with examples where the abuse of psychiatry was used to impose totalitarian controls against political dissidents. The most egregious was the Soviet Union, which established “Psikhushkas” (mental hospitals) for the sole purpose of incarcerating political enemies of the Soviet state. They were managed by the KGB until 1991, and used the diagnosis of “sluggish schizophrenia” to intern their political prisoners. Their diagnostic criteria included: “reform delusion,” “struggle for the truth” and “perseverance.” Communist China does the same thing to this very day.
Because the internet wasn’t around back then, other fascist regimes used direct methods of inflicting surveillance and mass paranoia on their civilian populations. In Germany, school children were instructed how to detect weapons and disloyal thoughts of their parents and other family members, so they could report them to the proper authorities. In China, Mao used his “Red Guard.” In East Germany, Stasi networks permeated the civilian population. They were all used for the singular purpose of detecting and eliminating threats to the state — all under the false pretense of “protecting the public from itself.”
Now that all conservatives, Trump voters and white people have been branded as racists, white supremacists, domestic terrorists and white nationalists, perhaps our future social network surveillance system will detect dangerous pre-crime mental illnesses that will result in a knock on our doors in the middle of the night, and being hauled off for interrogation. Or, perhaps in the Psikhushkas of a future America, diagnostic criteria such as “patriot, Republican, NRA member, Constitutionalist and registered gun owner” will be used to “protect the public from itself.” It’s all happened before.
P.S. The Rubicon is a shallow river that is easily crossed.
Make rash decision from raw emotions, it always works out so well.........
You think you see mass death now? If Trump signs these draconian laws, there will be civil war, and blood will run in the streets.
you don’t ever want to channel any emotion into public policy, especially into legislation that is corrosive to core constitutional rights.
emotions can be (indeed, usually are) manipulated.
This makes perfect sense. Crazy people killed innocent people, turn in your Rights under our former Constitution.
Yep. When the Left disarms then we can talk.
ALL citizens MUST own a firearm, be able to operate it and have sufficient ammo.
Just another opportunity for the oppressive Left to infringe upon the right of LAW ABIDING CITIZENS to keep and bear arms.
The RATS always do this. Playing on emotions. Not on Constitutional facts.
A lot of good information. Thanks.
Note that identifying a probable future mass shooter and putting him in jail or a mental facility is being discussed. The definition will soon include “”He was a Trump supporter. We turned him in just in time.”
We whipped up your emotions. Now make decisions based upon those emotions!
Bloomberg mentioned a lot of Second Amendment infringements in their opinion piece, but failed to mention the two most important words in this debate: They passed.
Both shooters legally purchased their weapons and passed FBI NICS background checks.
Words on a piece of paper didn’t stop these events. More words on more paper won’t either.
Bfl
When is this left-wing Nazi runt going to give up HIS armed bodyguards?
Back in November 2016, this POS Bloomturd managed to get an initiative on the ballot here in Maine that would have banned the private sale of firearms.
The people of Maine voted NO (to Bloomturd), and the private sale of firearms here in Maine is alive and well.
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