Posted on 09/19/2024 11:59:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I won't say our political climate has never been more divisive, mostly because we had an actual shooting civil war. That was pretty divisive when you get down to it and while things aren't great right now, we're not there, either.
And based on how I figure that will go if it does happen, I'd rather we just skip that if at all possible.
But the climate is bad. It has to be to have a second attempt on Donald Trump's life.
However, some "experts" argue that the problem isn't political discourse, it's our right to keep and bear arms that's the real problem.
“Political violence does not represent the values of America and has no place in our democracy. But, yet again, a person armed with hate and an assault weapon attempted to take the former president’s life,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “There is no room for violence of any kind in our country and we must keep firearms out of the hands of people hellbent on tearing apart our political process and our communities.”
Giffords, the group founded by the former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords after she survived an assassination attempt in 2011, echoed that sentiment, saying on X: “We’re relieved that former President Trump is safe after the FBI reported an apparent assassination attempt in Florida. Gun violence has no place in America. Weak laws make all of us less safe.”
The group Brady: United Against Gun Violence similarly called on the nation to “come together to condemn political violence and address America’s gun violence crisis”.
It's not really shocking that gun control groups would use this to advance their agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
Uh, no, dumbshit. Weak law enforcement makes us unsafe.
Nothing “expert” about those quoted.
More like “hacks” and “opportunists”.
I’ll keep my guns, tyvm. Especially when such “experts” weigh in.
It’s amazing how well-behaved guns were for well over 200 years. Then suddenly, in about one generation, guns went crazy and started killing people.
It is ironic that the politicians call “political violence” anything that happens against them by wacko’s and it is not violence that is purposeful by government against law abiding citizens (who are forced to pay for the violence against themselves).
“guns are only dangerous when the wrong nut is connected to the trigger” L.Star
Exactly.
Hey Expert, it’s about the 2A!
bkmk
“Political violence does not represent the values of America and has no place in our democracy”
We are a republic a__hat.
Unlike shitpants Joe, there is a REAL threat here. NO MORE rallies. NO MORE shaking hands with walking talking hispanic chemical agent dispensers. Build a bunker that is drone proof. Do remote messages on your website or twitter/whatever account. Prepare to CRUSH and DESTROY the left.
I reluctantly agree, but backing down is not in Trump’s DNA.
It’s really about the ‘Rats.
Robert Ringer (Winning Through Intimidation, Looking Out For Number One and Restoring the American Dream——now a fierce Trump supporter) wrote that the apparent value and quality of an “expert” depends on the distance of the place he or she came from.
One on local TV on a Milwaukee show would look smart “from Stanford” or “in Harvard’s Dept. of....” and be given much respect but one from the college down the street would seem ordinary.
From Expert Advice versus Common Sense
March 4, 2015 by Robert Ringer.
there are still those establishment folks — on both the political right and left — who ferociously cling to the old caste system whereby experts are accorded a cushy position at the top.
Of course, the definition of an expert is strictly subjective. The truth be known, someone commonly referred to as an expert is all too often just an overly degreed guy who revels in telling you all the reasons why you can’t do something. And speaking for myself, being told that I can’t do something usually motivates me to prove that I can.
Sometimes an expert is nothing more than an ordinary guy from out of town who knows a lot about one subject or another. I have always marveled at how an individual’s expert status seems to increase in direct proportion to the distance he travels from his hometown to the city where serves up his expert advice.
Some interesting ideas here....
https://robertringer.com/expert-advice-versus-common-sense/
Okee dokee:
1. Reproductive rights procedures(abortions) 2023-—million +
2. Drug ODs (fentynal)2023-—100,000+
3. AR deaths——I don’t know but pretty sure it’s way lower than 1 & 2.
With, again, record firearm sales. Guarantee its not all conservatives arming up either.
P.S. NOT an x-spurt.
Not due to hate speech day after day generated by the Democrats, the Lame Street Media or the Deep State? ... RIIIIIGHT!
The second civil war, which has been predicted for the past 30 years, is nearly inevitable, if it isn’t already.
Democrats have a very small window to disarm the vast population of armed citizens in America.
Hmmmmm! I don’t see any surgical devices or D and C suction machines......
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