Tragic. I just hope you've got a box of tissues handy:D
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Tragic. I just hope you've got a box of tissues handy:D
Thanks for proving just what a petty little individual you really are...Quote:
Originally Posted by peejaye
Ps. You missed one. ;)
I have tissues handy, but not for tears. Question is, Peejaye, do you own a gun? Do you have a view on gun crime in either the US or the UK? The documentary that aired earlier this year about gun crime in the UK, Gun No 6 (made in 2018 ) is one of the most powerful essays on the subject I have seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by peejaye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0btt5pf
If you have issues with one or two people it might be a personality conflict, but who do you think the problem is when you cannot have a discussion with anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by peejaye
This is an obvious thing a parent tells a child but I hope you don't find this bit of common sense patronizing.
Stavros, by recommending a documentary on gun crime you've proven yourself to be FAR right wing. The docu was produced by the BBC and one can only wonder how many other far right wingers like yourself participated in its making. The progressive position is to align yourself with a guy who fears legal restrictions on military weapons while holed up on his ranch looking to spray wildlife with bullets and wondering when the invasion is coming.
Funny you should ask that, Stavros. A couple of years ago, before he become all bitter and twisted, he was on our side on this issue. I can recall him arguing with Mr Fanti, who later became one of his besties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
He's not likely to respond given he previously said he had blocked us all. It looks like Laphroig is the only one he hasn't yet blocked. It's seriously weird when a person who claims to be left-wing is now lurking around this section solely in the hope that there might be right-wingers arguing with us who he can befriend.
The plus side of being blocked by him is he can't see your posts and downvote them. Anyone got a box of tissues I can borrow? I'm so upset that I'm off to cry in the corner...Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
check pmQuote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Latest shooting from Texas from a car. At least 5 dead. Thank goodness he wasn't drunk as well. Though that might have affected his aim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49540160
And what happens, gun laws are loosened instead of tightened. Granted the timing is a coincidence, but still.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/01/u...rnd/index.html
https://guides.sll.texas.gov/gun-law...apper-25371859
There are some people who simply get drunk on guns. Either they’re wired that way or, more likely, they’ve fallen victim to an addictive feedback loop. It can be a thrilling experience to discharge a firearm or even to watch. We all know this vicarious thrill from watching movies. For an enthusiast each crack and kick of a firearm can jolt the brain with endorphins and dopamine. A hundred rounds a minute floods the brain with pleasure inducing neurotransmitters and everything about guns becomes associated with this pleasure. Those who have ‘learned’ or been ‘self-conditioned’ to associate firearms with this pleasure can’t help themselves. They crave guns. They read about guns, they buy guns, they handle them, want to feel them and of course to shoot them.
Of course people love and collect any number of things: antiques, shot glasses, stamps, shoes, books, ukuleles, shoes, jewelry, hats, cars (did I already say shoes?) and so on. But the fetish with firearms can and often does take a disturbing twist. Proficiency with and ownership of a small personal arsenal can give an insecure man a heightened sense of power and of superiority which combine (like alcohol) to lessen their inhibitions. When high on this sense of power they talk loudly and aggressively of ‘second amendment solutions‘ to social and personal problems. You may think it’s just banter, but they engage in it to inflate their sense of power and superiority and to hide from themselves their own insecurities and prejudices. When those insecurities begin to peek through and make themselves felt, the firearm fetishist will step-up the aggression to re-inflate and buttress his sense of superiority. When this loop finally swings out of control people are injured, people are killed and we read about in the headlines.
We don’t ban alcohol. We tried and it didn’t work. However, we do heavily regulate and tax it. You can’t have an open container in a car. In many small municipalities you can’t have an open container in the street. Yet you can have a loaded firearm in your car or on your person as you walk the street from one establishment to another. Just this week in Odessa Texas a man who was carrying a loaded assault weapon in his car killed a policeman who pulled him over for not using his turn signal! The offender then drove around shooting random people.
Assault weapons were designed to assault people and kill them. They’re not for sports shooting. It’s past time we ban them.
Everyone has met at least one person who should not own a gun. The person with impulse control problems but no condition that would keep them from getting one. The person with substance abuse problems who becomes wild and threatening when drunk or high on whatever.
I knew someone in college who took steroids and had roid rage. The guy tried to run through a chain fence to get at someone. It's now a thing among meatheads to argue that there's no such thing as roid rage because the roids only take anger that's there and make it worse. But that IS roid rage. Something lies dormant until it's woken.
The gun problem is kind of like that in that it takes something in these people that's there, but mostly dormant, and gives it a shake. I'm not saying the killers are not culpable. They've done indefensible things that could never be redeemed. But there are probably circumstances where they could have gone through their lives without ever killing anyone. They would have ups and downs, frustrations and disappointments, late night binges and even uncontrollable rage, without access to a piece of equipment that makes the act of killing consist almost entirely of intent. Guns of the future will plug right into their id.