(October 2, 2017 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote:(October 2, 2017 at 8:45 am)mh.brewer Wrote: From what I'm hearing, kudos to the swat team.
If this does not create stricter federal gun controls or bans then congress/americans are fucking nuts.
It won't. Don't you know that it is always "too soon" for that discussion?
After all, guns don't kill people - people kill people.
And toasters don't make toast - people do.
I really do get tired of the bullshit argument "a gun cant magically fire itself, so you cant blame the gun."
NO SHIT, but you can blame the marketing and you can blame the attitude surrounding the object. Just like a Koran has no magic power to do anything without humans, but it still takes humans to pick up the object.
The nutters ARE worshiping the object as if it were a living being with rights. Just like the far right nuts worship the Koran as if it were a living being and not a book.
Humans have rights, objects do not.
America has a gun fetish and that fetish is costing us billions in health care costs and 36,000 deaths per year.
Yes, you have the right to own a firearm, but others have a say in our laws, not one lobby, not one party, but all of us. It is not tyranny if you don't get everything you want 100% of the time. You either value pluralism or you don't.
I love how the religious right rightfully condemns the violence out of the middle east, but cant see that their far right loves mixing religion with weapons too.
