Pogo
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- Dec 7, 2012
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So think it’s alright to politicize this tragedy?L.A.T.E.R.Still can't say how banning one rifle will stop shootings.I hate the nastiness this group uses to slander anyone who speaks up, whether it's women or gun control advocates or immigrant groups. I actually don't think it's as bad as a "dystopian death cult." Americans needed a weapon for protection in the not so distant future. Culture changes slowly, though our environment has morphed into something no one could have dreamed of back then. Yes, some of the posters here are just nihilists, but most folks on that side do believe their guns are necessary to protect themselves. To me it seems it's gone way, way overboard though.I've addressed all of it over the past month and if you didn't read it, that's on you.
BTW, I have no problem with an armed security officer in schools if that is what the community wants.
I appreciate your actually using your words today, though, Mike.
I'm visiting the threads today to defend the kids from folks who are disrespecting them; not really into going through the whole gun debate this afternoon.
This thread, and the other butthurt threads like it, underscore the basic point I've been making since literally the day I joined this site (and before elsewhere) which was during another wave of recent shootings ---
-- which is that we live in a culture that glorifies violence and fetishizes guns as the instrument of that violence. It surrounds everything we see and hear, right down to linguistic colloquialisms. And the fetishizers, those who worship that violence, just can't stop themselves from that woeful infantile whining sound they make whenever that reality is called out for what it is. This thread tries to undermine "where their money's coming from". Another thread whines that they're "snot nosed" (whatever that means) and "clueless".
They just can't stand being exposed for what they are --- a dystopian death cult.
Here's a movement of young people inspirationally agitating for their own lives, and all these whiners can come up with is "life? fuck that".
Clearly you don't understand rights when you complain of others expressing their stance against fascism.
My complaint was against the nastiness.
Go read your own OP and tell us the answer to that, Slummo.