Why would I remove that word when “unaccountable” men with guns (LAW ENFORCEMENT) are my primary concern?
I’m for responsible gun ownership. Weapons should be secured. In the home, they should be locked up so they don’t get into the wrong hands. That right there prevents a few mass shootings I can think of and a significant number of accidental gun deaths. Open carrying especially into a Walmart is irresponsible. I don’t care if it’s legal or not
Also, I’m not sure what system you think I’m for other than responsible gun ownership, training, psychiatric evaluation, and registering firearms. Oh, and you’ll probably get a real kick out of this… If I did have a system, felons would have their 2A rights restored when they got out
bahbahmickey made a political post in the MLS thread of SE at 2+2, and I was smart enough to resist replying.
Are you LirvA?
Nah. Just small penises
Haha I’ve been asked that more than once before. No. Is he still a user on 22? I should really go scan his posts
He/she is just a precious soul, trying to navigate through this turbulent life.
Just skimmed a few of LirvA’s 22 posts (it appears he’s self banned). He appears quite a bit more anti government than I am, but can now see why I’m getting confused for him. We both agree MSM is pure brainwashing BS and feel the establishment is out to own us all
I doubt LirvA is a Bernie bro like I am. I’m not against governments. I’m against governments oppressing its citizens and slowly but surely taking away their rights, which imo is what is happening in the US and that should frighten everyone. I think many Americans are like the frog in the pot of water that slowly heats up and it never realizes it’s being boiled alive
Perfectly performing governments are extinct or never existed. Human history should have everyone alert to the various risks and the glacial pace of improvement in the human condition(if that even exists lol I think it might).
Someone up-thread or in another thread wrote about how they’ve changed and now see a need for urgency. That’s a pipe dream. Any progress is incremental and maybe indiscernible.
Young people are fired up and shit, and it’s a phase of life… looking back on it from adulthood, it’s seen for exactly what it is.
We need optimists and activists, but change is a serious fuckin mystery.
Superuberbob is providing a real-time glimpse into his experience in Prague. In every corner of the globe, rivalries exist between adjacent peoples.
The bible encourages loving thy neighbor, and even though it was an impossibility for the men and women of that time to directly understand how true this was for populations unseen all over the world, there was an intuition from a collective soul perhaps, that it was needed, extrapolating their experience.
The average American is so far from that principle and rather in fear of everyone they fucking see. Lotta work to be done, boss.
I believe LirvA started the long running “Bernie Sanders is a BOSS” thread that dated at least from the beginning of the 2015 campaign season.
LirvA is also a long-standing opponent of the Civil Rights Act.
Didn’t he convert to being a librul, like pvn? I would assume he’s ditched all that libertarian sort of stuff.
As an atheist and someone who prefers a scientific world view, I think you should step back and look at the bigger picture. Improvement seems glacial to us because we look at time through the lens of our lifetime. Maybe our parent’s lifetime, or at most, our grandparent’s lifetime. We think in terms of decades, not centuries. We can hardly reference time on a scale of tens of thousands of years.
We currently enjoy living in an era where there is less death, war, violence, disease, and famine than at any other period of human history. From a deep time perspective, humans have improved the overall quality of life for the average person on the planet rather quickly. And who’s to say we haven’t bottle necked and aren’t nearing a point of exponential explosive improvement where we all but end war, hunger, and racism? We produce more food than people can consume (we just haven’t figured out how to distribute it). We have the technology to end fossil fuels (we just haven’t figured out how to get everyone on board). I’d say the human condition has and can continue to improve pretty rapidly
Or we might nuke ourselves into oblivion. From a philosophical POV the human condition is probably tragic either way
Yeah for every supposed advancement, (An eccentric genius like Ted Kaczynski, or others with less stigma associated to their name have challenged that notion) we’re still like an awkward child, wielding that instrument of innovation.
The supposed benefits to all mankind, that whatever the last 100 or so years have produced, could all be lost to the unforeseen consequences of climate change, or nuclear war like you say.
I’m not willing to stipulate to anything you said, mostly because I’m pretty ignorant and never will possess the necessary, encyclopedic understanding of innumerable subjects to make absolute pronouncements.
So this is a thing:
https://twitter.com/sandyhook/status/1174291982857883653
As always, the people it affects the most are the people who are already on the right side. This isn’t going to persuade any gun freaks to change their minds.
It’s really too bad none of the supposedly progressive candidates for President will talk about repealing the Second Amendment. That is the actual conversation we need to have.
This would be catastrophic politically, and it also happens to be impossible politically, so they’re wise not to talk about it.
Oh cool - google has a quick access template for mass shootings now - like the weather or NFL players.