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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2019 8:51:12 GMT
Why do people dislike guns?
People hate guns for a multitude of reasons, and I'm not entirely sure why that's so hard for the pro-gun crowd to understand. We often chalk it up to "they fear" and "they don't understand", but that's grossly oversimplified.
Imagine I put a device in your hand and told you that if you touch it in a certain way -- even accidentally -- it could explode and kill you or someone else. Let's call it "a bomb".
Now, the bomb experts will tell you that this particular bomb has a safety on it that prevents it from exploding. Or that it will only explode when you yourself press the detonator button. And by the way, the detonator button could be accidentally pressed, so you better be careful with that thing.
Also, there's been a rash of people -- let's call them "unfortunates" -- who have accidentally blown themselves up. And taken out a couple of their friends in the process. And not all of them were adults -- many kids have found these bombs in their parents' closet and, curious as to what they were, picked them up and blown themselves to smithereens. And also a whole rash of people who decided they wanted to blow up because life had no more meaning, and so they too pressed the button and willingly exploded. Also, some terrorists have been using these bombs to blow up people they don't like and steal the stuff that is left over after the explosion. And then let's not forget the police, who have not only the same kind of bombs you do but also some much larger bombs that look more like what you'd see in the military.
So, here is this bomb. Let me put it in your hands. Aren't you completely calm and totally unconcerned with it? Maybe you're asking, "why the hell do I even want this in my hands!?" Maybe you're asking, "why do people want to make these things?"
To the most liberal of opponents, there's even a further hatred because they believe diplomacy and authorities are the answer to crime and protection. Most if not all of them have lived in relative safety all their lives and have never been in a situation where they felt an explosive device would help them. Most never expect to be.
I think this is the crux of most peoples' hatred of guns. To them, it's a device that kills. Plain and simple. They don't care about hunting or target practice and feel those are just examples of either killing something other than a human or practicing to kill something. The argument falls flat for them.
Now I could go on and on about why we do need guns and why people shouldn't hate on them, but this question was "Why do people hate guns?" and I hope I've provided a reasonable answer. |
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Post by bazooka on Oct 15, 2019 8:54:58 GMT
Because they think a guillotine is the moral equivalent of a gun.
This tool is designed with the sole purpose to kill helpless and restrained people, made forcibly compliant by their own government, and with the casual acceptance and non-intervention of all those innocent citizens in view. It does so quickly. Well, reasonably quickly. It is also horrifically gruesome. I don’t know why anyone would choose the word “cleanly” to describe it, because beheadings, like are those still practiced today in certain horrible parts of the world and unlike what video games and movies teach us, are horrifically bloody affairs. They also aren’t efficient. They require a victim to be restrained, most likely by the state, as no one else could build the device and guarantee that the hundreds of people in attendance don’t interfere. A quick stab through the back of the neck with a simple kitchen knife would be much more efficient. Cleaner too. So is the guillotine a weapon used to kill people? Oh, yeah. It killed people in an unimaginably terrifying and traumatizing way. Not really traumatizing for the victims, but for everyone who saw it. It wasn’t just a weapon of killing, but of tyranny and state terrorism.
This, however, isn’t.
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Post by merc on Oct 15, 2019 11:19:51 GMT
I’ve carried firearms for over twenty years, I possessed an unrestricted concealed weapons license when I was 19 years old, issued in the state of Michigan. I heard it all, the good, the bad, and the bullshit. People fear what they don’t understand, and many folks do not like being around others who possesses something that leverages a superior position.
Adults didn't like the fact that I could carry a pistol, and they could not, they did not have the same privileges as myself (at this time, in Michigan, a concealed pistols’ license was a privilege, today it is a right, sorta). When I was 19, I heard it all from people who believed they knew more than I did about my own choice to carry a firearm. I was told, I’m more likely to be a victim of a crime, my pistol will be used against me, there’s no way I’ll hold it together in an emergency, etc….little did these sheeple know. They didn’t know me, my skills, temperament, discipline, or other positive attributes about me. In retrospect, most of the elders that criticized and questioned me didn’t have any or very little experience with firearms.
I’ve encountered a fair number of police officers that were completely ignorant, it’s ok for them to carry firearms, get drunk in bars with pistols in their waistbands, but God forbid a civilian be allowed the same privilege they are afforded. If a police officer doesn’t wish civilians to carry firearms, then why do they carry one off-duty, out of uniform, in the bar while having 10–12 drinks?
The liberals and left, most of them, like the government they want to control to have all the power, subjugating civilians as they are in England. Europe, Australia, and Canada are oft cited as examples of firearms control that America should follow suit, why? Many, including myself, believe that the disarming of America is lurching us one step closer to greater government control and power over the populous. Without firearms, real firearms with detachable magazines, we are at a drastically reduced ability to respond to gov’t tyranny. I concur, the US government and its’ agents are quite powerful, well armed, and intelligent. If we are relegated to the likes of English-style firearms ownership, what is next? It’s difficult to resist the gov’t when you can’t shoot back. So, the left uses public safety, school shootings, and “comprise” as means, ways, and tactics to sway the sheeple. What does someone whose never owned, used, or maybe only held a firearm, but never shot one, qualified to decide who can own what?
People fear what they don’t understand, people want to corral others to make them easy to control, and people believe they are smarter than others around them and believe they know better than those they are attempting to control and possibly protect from themselves. I don’t need a minder, the last one went through the wood chipper.
The bottom line is people want to control, in order to avoid being controlled.
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