warsawdaddy
Gold Member
Hide your guns.They'll be after them again now that the day after Ft Hood shootings,a guy has killed two and wounded 8 others so far in Orlando.He's still on the loose.
I agree, but reporting that someone is being a copycat is hardly fearmongering.Lasivian said:Fear mongering helps absolutely nobody. Please don't do it.
Smee said:I agree, but reporting that someone is being a copycat is hardly fearmongering.Lasivian said:Fear mongering helps absolutely nobody. Please don't do it.
It takes a bit more than that. Just watch the network news tonight and there is plenty of fearmongering to compare this to. The fearmongering is going to be coming NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, and the rest of that bunch telling us all how awful it is that we still have the freedom in this country to own firearms.
Lasivian said:Telling people to hide their guns because "they'll" be after them is fearmongering.
And please explain to me how anything the media does makes it ok here? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Libralabsoldier said:Post links then.
Smee said:Lasivian said:Telling people to hide their guns because "they'll" be after them is fearmongering.
And please explain to me how anything the media does makes it ok here? Two wrongs don't make a right.
I don't really think your first statement is accurate. There is a staunch "anti gun" sentiment on the left side of the aisle. The greater and greater restrictions they attempt to get enacted along with the rhetorick only feed that "fear" that some see, but which is actually a serious concern for the liberties guaranteed us under the constitution. Wouldn't you agree that sometimes with statements like speaker Pelosi's about making the cost of ammunition prohibitive as a way around the constitution, these persons do have reason to be concerned?
I didn't mean that it would make anything "alright". What I was getting at is the simple fact that the media has a strong leaning towards the same folks who would like to make it illegal to own guns. They will NOT make things better, they will be the ones who are causing fear and trying to use that fear to justify a hatred of an inanimate object (a gun) while attempting to make us feel sorry for the animate object (the human) who made the decision to pick up and MISUSE that weapon.
The gun doesn't think. It doesn't feel. It doesn't hate. It doesn't love. It doesn't get happy. It doesn't get sad. It is a machine which would do nothing at all without the intervention of a living being.
So, why do they hate the gun, while excusing the user? Kind of stupid to me. But the media is going to play this up and do some top notch fearmongering in an attempt to sway more people to think that it is the evil gun that carried out these shootings, and that we should feel sorry for the tortured souls (Libra, how many Army Majors have you harassed today?) who decided that they would use that tool to carry out their desires.
Libralabsoldier said:Post links where groups are actively calling for the wholesale confiscations of guns. Which is well nigh logistically impossible.
So very true, hard to do.Libralabsoldier said:Post links where groups are actively calling for the wholesale confiscations of guns. Which is well nigh logistically impossible.
Lasivian said:If anything behavior like this makes it harder for me to sway liberals on the issue.
Then comes the "thought police".RGINN said:In the culture I grew up in, an armed society is a polite society. There's a lot of folks that think takin away the guns would solve everything, and it would somehow make us all more civil to each other, and murder rates would drop. It would be the most wonderful thing if that worked. You got to consider the 'ways and the means'. Lose the means, guns, and I guarantee you they will come up with somethin else. Since the government looks out for us, we will be seein legislation introduced banning rocks or sharp sticks.
Smee said:Then comes the "thought police".RGINN said:In the culture I grew up in, an armed society is a polite society. There's a lot of folks that think takin away the guns would solve everything, and it would somehow make us all more civil to each other, and murder rates would drop. It would be the most wonderful thing if that worked. You got to consider the 'ways and the means'. Lose the means, guns, and I guarantee you they will come up with somethin else. Since the government looks out for us, we will be seein legislation introduced banning rocks or sharp sticks.