Facebook “thoughts” of the day
April 4, 2009 – 12:25 pm by JohnA friend’s Facebook status: “…says its about time the government passes some serious gun control laws. to hell with the right to bear arms.”
Her friends’ responses: “hear hear!” “No guns and arms? That settles it, no more gym.” (admittedly, kind of funny) “But then what the hell am I going to do in Texas? Ah well at least I can still drink and drive.” “True dat!”
No kidding! We should probably also make murder illegal—that would really dissuade demented psychopaths from murdering anybody!
This country sucks because its citizens suck, and it’s only going to get suckier in my lifetime. I am more afraid of fascist police-state advocates like these than I am of gun-wielding maniacs. Mainly because the government will always have guns.
Do these people ever notice that the frequency of maniacal public shootings like the one in Binghamton, NY, has only increased in recent decades along with the increase in police-state measures like gun-control laws? Correlation does not prove causality, but it sure as hell doesn’t prove that the measures prevent mass murders! Get it through your head: We already have somewhat strict gun-control laws, no additional number or severity of gun-control laws will keep guns out of the United States, murderous psychopaths are never swayed by the existing laws against murder or against owning the guns, they will simply turn to bombings or something else if they can’t get ahold of a gun easily, the government will ALWAYS have guns and that is a bad thing (which was the entire point of the Second Amendment), a society would be better off trying to keep people from wanting to shoot 30 people instead of preventing anyone from owning a gun, and the increasing influence that the State has had in our lives during the last century is most definitely a significant source of the strife, hatred, poverty, desperation, isolation, and psychosis that drives people to public mass murder.
2 Responses to “Facebook “thoughts” of the day”
Wait, it gets even better; a few days ago Roderick Long related that some talking (butt)head on TV recently declared, “People talk about the 2nd Amendment, but the 2nd Amendment doesn’t give you the right to go out and gun down a bunch of people. We need stricter laws.”
Well, duh… who in the sam hill ever said it did?! While listening to the “reasoning” of gun control advocates never fails to infuriate, this is of such surpassing idiocy that it very nearly sent me over the edge.
“This country sucks because its citizens suck, and it’s only going to get suckier in my lifetime. I am more afraid of fascist police-state advocates like these than I am of gun-wielding maniacs. Mainly because the government will *always* have guns.”
Hear hear! I’ve often thought that the admirers and supporters of thugs – by which I mean the state, in this case – are even worse than the thugs themselves, for I know not to expect any better of the latter.
By The Beggar Queen on Apr 7, 2009
Beggar Queen,
Thanks for your comments. I must have missed Prof. Long’s comment about that talking (butt)head, which is weird because I read his blag almost every day…
By John on Apr 8, 2009