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Originally Posted by HockeyMac18
It's really clear what I was saying: he has a very good reason to be angry. I made no comment on any of the other points that you're bringing up.
I agree "assigning blame" is complicated - but I also do not think the NRA is blameless in this. Our gun culture, fueled by the NRA, contributes partly to why we have so many school shootings (Yes, also in addition to other things like mental health).
If you don't want to recognize that simple fact, it's really not worth discussing any of this.
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When was the last time the NRA was in a school building of any sort promoting this so called "gun culture"?
I never once saw an NRA affiliate in gradeschool, middleschool, highschool, or college.
There is no complication of assigning blame at all.
You have the typical, emotionally charged individual making over the top demands and claims, assigning blame on the wrong entity, wrong individuals.
If anything that has contributed to "gun culture" whatever that is, it would be the politicians who seek to chip away at the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
The ones who feebly believe the implement is solely responsible.
So when they propose new restrictive laws, their subjective interpretation, and it hits the news... Who is more believable?
An organization that defends that right
Or
The politicians who say we don't want to take your guns, no. We want jack boots to take them for us. Or maybe not go that far... maybe make it such a hassle to engage a civil liberty, make it so expensive to engage in a civil liberty, that it discourages others from continuing or pursuing it.
Take for example the BS that Rick Scott signed into law.
18-20 years old. Can't buy a firearm. That isn't an infringement on a civil liberty? It sets a precedent to be followed. If you can deny one civil liberty you can deny them all.
Heck what would stop me from restricting 18-20 year olds from voting? Exercising their freedom of speech?
You're not a person until age 21.
Say I ran for governor of Florida.
Another one happened. It's revealed the shooter was bullied on Facebook or whatever app kids use.
Bullied because of the way they dressed to the way they looked.
I rally for a vendetta to subjectively re-interpret the constitution as I see fit.
No more social media for anyone under the age of 21. No Internet accessible devices.
They played a role and contributed to this.
Since they were bullied on their fashion, mandatory school uniforms. Can't have any freedom of expression that creates toxic diversity afterall. And we can't have diversity with equality existing at the same time...
Prepare to cough up some serious coinage for juniors school clothes.
I violate their first to my subjective interpretation.
I don't stop there.
It's later revealed by the scumbag that they weren't just bullied online, but that they idolized previous scumbags. Learned the weapons and tactics used by others.
Afterall freedom of the press here's a contributing factor.
I stop the press from releasing any details and reporting about it.
Hefty penalties and fines come with that. Smashing servers arresting journalists and reporters. Burning paper print factories.
Kiss your first goodbye. I can force censorship to the levels that would make evil dictators the world's past envious! No more video games or movies that depict graphic violence. No more reporting on school shootings. Period. Doesn't even make a blip locally.
Since I don't trust parents I violate their and their kids 3rd amendment rights. They have to have an agent from the state within their home to monitor them to make sure they're not on the internet.
Gets better.
No more 4th Amendment rights.
You are subject to search and seizure.
No more 5th amendment rights. You must confess. And if the jack boots think you're lying, no lawyer no court. Skip those entirely. No 8th amendment. You will be subject to cruel and unusual punishment until you turn in the Internet capable devices.
And you know how I could do it?
By pandering to the emotional side of society incapable of rational and logical thought.
It's for public safety. Think of the children!
Nobody needs a 24 hour news feed. The founding fathers never saw technology to evolve beyond the printing press!
Nobody can live without government agents within the home to ensure the Internet doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Plus they're armed to protect you too.
You don't need due process go straight to jail. Afterall, due process is what failed here, and allowed a murderous individual to go on a rampage.
If we had stop and frisk like we do now, it would never have happened.
If they couldn't hide behind the 5th and refuse to answer whether they had guns or the Internet, or use the excuse of private property it would never have happened.
There's no such thing as cruel and unusual punishment anymore. Not when innocent people were slain... so if you don't confess and cough em up... we will beat it out of you and anyone else who protects you or objects on your behalf.
You don't need a high capacity lawyer to represent you.
Afterall... court of public opinion reigns supreme.
And I could do it too. All under the disguise of public safety and for Muh Childrunz.
Sound like 1930s Germany yet?
It gets better.
I declare anyone who objects as enemies of the state. Their property is subject to seizure without haste. They will be rounded up and dealt with accordingly.
With the seizure of wealth and half the population gone, the surplus is so high, I provide free health care at the cost of others. I provide slave labor through the detainees/prisoners/enablers to businesses that support my ideology. Or just simply looking to save a buck.
And without the 2nd Amendment. What would stop me?
History repeats itself if ignored.
As for Hogg his anger is severely misdirected.
Afterall. I don't see any first person shooter video games that hold an NRA endorsed watermark/logo on them. I don't see an NRA logo/watermark on any Hollywood flicks either. I don't see anywhere in the NRA's about us, that defends heinous actions of mass murder, nor endorses nor promotes it. Nor defends/promotes bullying.
He should be asking why Isreal and Runcie collaborated with the PROMISE program that protected scumbags under the disguise of well, it's hard to get a job, hard to get into college, hard to start a career with an arrest record. So rather than punish criminals for their offenses, we will simply sweep their behavior under the rug and turn to counselling rather than punishing.
Not like it's difficult to purchase a firearm legally with an arrest record or anything...
And what is gun culture exactly?
Is it enjoying a hobby that differs from others hobbies?
Is it engaging a civil liberty no different than their 1st amendment rights?
Is keeping and bearing arms solely for putting food on the table?
Is it keeping and bearing arms for self defense and defense of ones property?
What exactly is it?