Tainari88 wrote:The system they are coping with is massively corrupt to the core. And people that are on the Right of the political spectrum like Oxymoron are part of the issue because they won't allow change to happen.
Change is happening. It's just not going the way you want it to go. In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms precedes the constitution itself. In the United States, the people are sovereign, not the government.
Tainari88 wrote:And they are the ones voting for the lack of progress.
The ability to get 100s of rounds of ammo off in a few minutes IS progress. An AR-15 is progress. It's just not the kind of progress you prefer. Just like the flame thrower:
Tainari88 wrote:Fucked up value system and the Right in the USA who love their sacred guns funneling money and time and effort into not changing.
However, it is generally not right wingers who are engaged in these mass shootings. There is not a unified political movement behind them other than the calls from ISIS to kill Westerners. Mostly, you have mentally ill people who spent their childhoods playing first-person shooters who are now hopped up on Venlaxafine or whatever and have difficulty distinguishing between a video game and reality. There were a lot of debates on this in the 1980s about sex-drugs-&-rock-n-roll culture in music, followed by hip-hop and gangsta violence in music, followed by debates on violence in movies. Remember, the v-chip was implemented during the Clinton years. What difference does that make in a world of hyper violent video games, Netflix, Amazon Prime and every other streaming service that bypasses v-chip and every other effort to indoctrinate the society toward more beastly behavior? None. You got the world you people were pushing for. It's not to your liking. Deal with it.
Tainari88 wrote:I care about what the message is.
Another person driven by narratives. sigh.
Tainari88 wrote:Too many people either apathetic and not organized enough and with enough money and power to make it happen.
The left is responsible for the society as it has become. They pushed for easy divorce, recreational sex, abortion on demand, recreational drug use, abandonment of traditional religious values, hyper violent media themes, and so forth. They called it "freedom of expression." Now you have a generation of people raised in that value system, and some products of it are some seriously disturbed people whose frustration-aggression response involves killing scores of people--innocent or otherwise.
Tainari88 wrote:Because I already know the Left is active trying to change it.
The left has actively tried to change it into what it is. They've succeeded. This is what it looks like. You want to do that economically? Just look at Venezuela to see what progress looks like. Many of us on the right do not want your idea of progress.
Drlee wrote:Until we have universal, single payer, government funded, health care we will not have any meaningful mental health program in the US.
They have it in the UK and most mental health issues go untreated. Basically, Western medicine sucks at mental health. There is more money to be made in not solving the problems. That's why the system is where it is.
Suntzu wrote:Bullshit. More than 170 school districts in Texas already have armed teachers. They probably pay them a small stipend just like they paid me to be the chess club sponsor. I agree that we need single payer health care just like the rest of the civilized world.
Well, the failure of security guards to do anything is a testament to wasting money on the ideas of big government types. People do not have the self-interest to run toward a suicidal-homicidal shooter and take him out unless they are a target. We can't rely on the police either.
Hindsite wrote:"The mainstream media love mass shootings. I'm going to say it again; the mainstream media love mass shootings…and you, the mainstream media just put out the casting call for the next mass shooter." –Colion Noir
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Hindsite wrote:What the NRA does do is defend our second amendment rights. That is why I am proud to be an NRA member. Praise the Lord.
I'm a life member myself. I guess it's time to make a donation.
anarchist23 wrote:The business community cutting their support of the NRA. It's behaviour is responsible for the US being awash with weapons.
No. People wanting to have guns is the reason the US has so many weapons. The NRA does not manufacture or sell guns to anyone.
suntzu wrote:The are two sides to that coin. I vote with my wallet, too.
A lot of these firms figure that out when trying to boycott conservative views. Minds.com is probably going to become a serious competitor to YouTube now after they decided to start demonetizing conservatives.
Crantag wrote:I don't think the NRA contingent is as large as the anti-NRA contingent, personally. By the laws of subtraction, the latter prevails, based on my own assumption.
That's about how Hillary Clinton approached her failed election strategy.
Drlee wrote:The key is to paint 2nd Amendment uber alles as the fools they are.
The phrase "über alles" is German and means "above all." What are you trying to say? You've got some modifiers there. How about a noun so that your sentence has a subject?
Drlee wrote:The best way to defeat them is to embarrass them by showing just how unintelligent their position is.
How well did that work for you in the 2016 election? I recall you saying that Trump could win, but only if he listened to your advice, but alas he didn't. He won anyway.
Drlee wrote:I can't think of a single really smart person who is an absolutist on any subject.
If only you were as smart as Adlai Stevenson, you'd see why your point is ridiculous. While the story is somewhat apocryphal, a women supporting Adlai Stevenson allegedly said to him, "Governor, you have the vote of every thinking person!", to which he replied, "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"
Godstud wrote: if you want to have a gun, then you have to insure it(just like you would a car). The deadlier the gun is, the higher the premiums. If you cannot pay them, you have to give up the gun.
That would be nice, except owning a gun is a right, not a privilege. You can't get around the old Second Amendment Godstud.
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