(December 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:

(December 7, 2024 at 6:51 am)Sheldon Wrote: I agree your rhetoric is blunt, but then facile rhetoric generally is, and you've leaped from that to a straw man. A country that embraces endemic private gun ownership, will likely see a corresponding increase in gun crime and violence. Embarking private gun ownership is a moral choice, geddit? 

Not all gun violence is created equal; two gang bangers killing each other? Okay, whatever - they put on uniforms and they went out and fought, people die. Just keep that shit in the slums.

A civilian being gunned down in the middle of the street? Cheering that on is a failure as a society.

(December 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Not all gun violence is created equal; two gang bangers killing each other? Okay, whatever - they put on uniforms and they went out and fought, people die. Just keep that shit in the slums.

(December 7, 2024 at 11:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(December 7, 2024 at 6:34 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Just to be clear, your position that a moral - i.e. a civilized - society should cheer when a man, charged of no crimes, is unlawfully executed in public with risk of bystandards bang harmed?

I see where the left "fear" of guns comes from; they project their own fantasies on everyone else.

Cheering for people being murdered is *not* moral or civil, barbarian.

Just because a man is charged with no crimes doesn’t mean he’s not a complete shit. 

And, for the record, I’m not one of the ones cheering his murder. On the other hand, I’m not particularly verklempt about it, either.

Boru

(December 7, 2024 at 1:17 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(December 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Not all gun violence is created equal; two gang bangers killing each other? Okay, whatever - they put on uniforms and they went out and fought, people die. Just keep that shit in the slums.

A civilian being gunned down in the middle of the street? Cheering that on is a failure as a society.

Society's abandonment of inner-city poor and its refusal to fix the conditions that create those gang-bangers is a much bigger failure of society -- I mean, the numbers are much bigger and they're being gunned down in the streets too. It seems to me that your sense of empathy is tied to the economic class of the victim.

(December 8, 2024 at 10:00 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: New Yorkers celebrate assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO with shooter look-a-like contest: ‘I wear this everywhere’



Eight contestants donning hooded outerwear and face masks were surrounded Friday by dozens of onlookers, whose cheers amounted to votes in the nose-thumbing stunt.

The winner, whose green jacket and face covering made him a dead ringer for the cold-blooded assassin, said he headed toward the park after hearing about the contest that morning.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/ne...e-contest/

(December 7, 2024 at 2:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(December 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Not all gun violence is created equal; two gang bangers killing each other? Okay, whatever - they put on uniforms and they went out and fought, people die. Just keep that shit in the slums.

A civilian being gunned down in the middle of the street? Cheering that on is a failure as a society.

(Bold mine)

Tell me you’re a racist without telling me you’re a racist.

Boru

(December 7, 2024 at 2:25 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: Just keep that shit in the slums? Why? Please elaborate. Here is a shovel.

(December 7, 2024 at 12:38 pm)Angrboda Wrote: It seems a bit ironic that we're being lectured on celebrating someone's death by an avowed member of a death cult.