It's kinda sad that we'd die side by side on the battle feild but voting side by side in the voting booth is a bridge too far.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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Bret, you got it going on.
seeing how anti guns some people are,i wonder how that's gonna happen.
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"So... By magic?"
Not magic. Magick. Black magick and Chaos magick. Many people underestimate the power of magick. 🙂
Its true violence is going to happen which is why non violence requires being ready for it to fall on you. If the majority of folks do not follow the system it will fall apart but in falling apart many of those who do not follow it will suffer and die but also those that do.
Liberals: The Christo-fascists are violently taking over!
Also liberals: Give up your guns!
This liberal: Uh, no? I'll keep my arms thank you very much.
I don’t know any liberals asking for anyone to give up their guns, but saying so sure makes you appear heroic!
Why you lyin
"Liberals" aren't saying "give up your guns." The democratic presidential nominee and vice president are literally both gun owners, and the presidential nominee said she'd shoot a home intruder to death less than a week ago. They're saying something more like "restrict future purchases of particularly dangerous guns and get reasonable rules, regulations, and licensing in place for them like we do for cars."
But I understand that doesn't make for a good dramatic post.
Didn’t even notice this before I just said the same thing. Yours is better.
Exactly right. Honestly at this point I think the Dems should just drop gun control entirely as an issue.
Let me preface this next section with the fact that I’ve been largely supportive of common sense gun control laws and think they would be a net positive. But give me a minute because this is a slightly more nuance point (the danger of bringing nuance to gun issues in America is apparent to me)
Why? Let’s say they were successful and made it harder to purchase guns that we categorize as especially dangerous.
- This country is already awash in guns. Unlike other nations that have disarmed, there is no appetite for any kind of gun but back or gun seizure program, those dangerous guns will get into the hands of people that want to do dangerous things with them.
- The less dangerous guns are still quite dangerous. Humans are creative, bump stocks, self modification of less dangerous guns, having a couple loaded guns, all ways to make less dangerous guns equally dangerous.
- There are enough pro gun Americans and money in the gun industry that every change will have loopholes you could drive a semi truck through
So the cost benefit just makes no sense. As a political issue the cost is enormous and the realistic potential benefit is basically nothing. I wish we had a population that cared more about this, but from a pragmatic point of view we simply don’t.
I think it was sandy hook that really cemented this for me. If a grade school full of children gets shot up and the reaction from a significant portion of the population is apathy or to double down on gun rights, that’s not an issue you are winning.
Look, if school children need to die so I can larp in my Meal-Team 6 outfit with my Gravy Seals friends, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to force them to make!
Yea it’s a shame that so many of our fellow countrymen say this seriously.
And my legs too
And, you know, most of my body, if at all possible please!
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"So we're going to take up violent action then, right?"
"Oh, God, no, we're just going to sit here and sneer at those who are trying to change the system without violence, or without enough violence."
The problem with violent action is that, to have a chance to succeed, you need a critical mass of support. Not like 50% or anything, but enough that you can’t be easily quelled. The only way you build that support is by suggesting violent resistance to people who scoff at you and accuse you of being unserious until the last straw finally breaks their back and you don’t sound so ridiculous anymore.
Any time violence is used, one fantasizes they are on the winning side
Not me. I'm fully willing to lose as long as I make some impact.
The point isn't about you and your body, it's the belief that violence will bring about YOUR ideal change
Launch my dead body through a billionaire's front window. Thanks.
Trebuchet or cannon?
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When violence is witnessed, one fantasizes that it is always unjustified.
Its hard to act assuming one will fail so I cannot blame them.
Still survivor fantasy, and therefore not worth respect
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I haven't seen a Flight of the Conchords reference in 13 years.
Get your hand off my tail, you'll make it dirty
I know! This meme format has serious potential
“Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, or we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.”
—Nelson Mandela, Gaza (1999)
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
—John F. Kennedy, Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress (1962)
I also like:
"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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