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How To Get Inside the Mind of Someone Who Wants a Disarmed Population
Gun Watch ^ | 30 May, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 05/31/2018 5:33:52 AM PDT by marktwain

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A person who has chosen to be unarmed has a completely different mindset from one who has chosen to be armed.
1 posted on 05/31/2018 5:33:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Thought the answer to the headline was “ a pointy stick”


2 posted on 05/31/2018 5:39:48 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: marktwain

It is easy to get into the mindset of the gun grabbers.
Watch Schindler’s List.


3 posted on 05/31/2018 5:40:29 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: marktwain

A person who has chosen to be unarmed a naive idiot who actually believes the world is all unicorns and flowers.


4 posted on 05/31/2018 5:42:03 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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different mindset

I do not carry a pistol so I can impose my will on someone else.
I carry a pistol so someone else cannot impose their will on me.
Lynn Givens

5 posted on 05/31/2018 5:42:16 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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Why in the world would I want to “get inside the mind” of a libtard? Seriously. The LAST place I would ever want to find myself. Personally, I am a short step from demonstrating my position on the issue by threatening to shoot them. Maybe that will convince them of the idiocy of their arguments. If threatening to shoot them demonstrates the foolishness of their position it might actually be a good idea as distasteful as I personally find it.


6 posted on 05/31/2018 5:45:33 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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What is “gun culture”?


7 posted on 05/31/2018 5:46:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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...one of the strengths of Second Amendment supporters is the willingness to engage with people who want most people in America forcibly disarmed.

Perhaps, Mr Weingarten, YOU retain that willingness...alas, I do not.

Trying to talk with these people and present a coherent, reasonable argument, when the person is totally incoherent, unreasonable, vulgar, nasty, violent and just plain damned stupid...well, it ain't my cup o' tea no more.

I will simply ignore them and continue on with my life.

If, by far flung chance the blooming idiots succeed in further infringing on my rights, then I shall simply become an outlaw.

I want no discourse with the moon-bat dummies.

8 posted on 05/31/2018 5:49:17 AM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: marktwain; Chode; Squantos; All

Well done, Sir.

I just want them to not drip stupidity drool near Me or My Family. I’m too Old, Grumpy, Hurt and Sick of them to put up with them anymore.


9 posted on 05/31/2018 5:50:55 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: BuffaloJack

“Blissninny” is an appropriate term I picked up from Jerry Pournelle that well-summarizes that.


10 posted on 05/31/2018 5:51:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: marktwain
Communists don't trust regular people.
They don't trust us to make our own decisions.
They don't trust us how to spend our own money.
They view everybody not in the party elite with deep suspicion.
They *especially* don't trust us to be armed.
They believe we could snap at any time and start shooting up the place.
Maybe it's because that's how they feel themselves.
There is a lot of envy, anger and resentment among the Left.

11 posted on 05/31/2018 5:52:10 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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The author may be correct in his assessment but I believe that "not wanting the responsibility of being armed" is not the main driver of the Left (or anti gun left )

They are violent, espouse violent fantasies and wish to commit violence against those that are different or with whom they disagree.

Therefore, the "others" must be much, much worse...

12 posted on 05/31/2018 5:52:27 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: OldSmaj

LOL !

You said that much better than I did.

I WILL be spending my time with My New Grandson making sure that He learns the Truth and Facts.

I Pray I will be around long enough time see Him to Adulthood...


13 posted on 05/31/2018 5:56:58 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: marktwain

It’s called, “my country would never commit such attrocities”. Which is funny since such people talk out both sides and consider Trump the greatest evil next to Satan.


14 posted on 05/31/2018 5:58:56 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: BenLurkin

“Gun culture” is a term invented by liberals to define a subset of the population whose views they find abhorrent.

It is a component of the class war & culture war being waged against those whom Hillary named the “basket of deplorables” and whom Obama would term “bitter clingers”.

Google “change gun culture” and then, “America’s love affair with guns”. A rich lore of antigun prejudice and hatred, especially in the British sites.


15 posted on 05/31/2018 6:00:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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I don’t have time to read this right now, but drive through the hoods in virtually any large Eastern city and look at the people...like it or not, they are SCARY. And you know what’s more scary, the thought that they may have guns.

Many people are terrified and still have to interact with these people, such as on subways/buses, etc. It affects them and I’m convinced that’s a major factor in their gun control position...along with not being able to imagine our government degenerating to the level of the UK, for example, where people are jailed for confronting attackers during a home invasion, or jailed for trying to report on a trial that the government demands be blacked out from coverage.


16 posted on 05/31/2018 6:01:48 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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Varies by person. I (probably foolishly) mentioned to several coworkers that I own KABA -- conversation about the Parkland shooting and people were asking what kind of a nut would own guns, considering that I'm a normal, fairly likeable person I said I own guns, put that in your perspective. One immediately double-timed it to her computer, literally stood up right away and fast walked out of the conversation and emailed HR...Luckily nothing came of it. Another, a black Democrat, was intrigued. Explained some insane gun laws (for example in MA, no adjustable stocks allowed), showed him some statistics, eventually took him to the range, and now he's on the right side of the 2nd amendment. Still a dem, but he's thinking.
17 posted on 05/31/2018 6:03:44 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: marktwain
Perhaps the BEST piece ever on the topic of concealed carry is A Nation of Cowards by Jeffrey Snyder. The salient quotes for this article are:

Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers.

Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself?

One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back, and will retaliate when threatened with death or grievous injury to himself or a loved one....Let's not mince words: He will be armed, will be trained in the use of his weapon, and will defend himself when faced with lethal violence.

The liberal elite know that they are philosopher-kings. They know that the people simply cannot be trusted; that they are incapable of just and fair self-government; that left to their own devices, their society will be racist, sexist, homophobic, and inequitable -- and the liberal elite know how to fix things. They are going to help us live the good and just life, even if they have to lie to us and force us to do it. And they detest those who stand in their way.

The private ownership of firearms is a rebuke to this utopian zeal. To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state's totalitarian reach.

Thus, talking to antigunners who view gun control as part of a liberal Sharia Law is largely futile.

18 posted on 05/31/2018 6:05:33 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: BenLurkin

“Gun culture” is something invented by Liberals. It is whatever they want it to be, whenever they want it to be.


19 posted on 05/31/2018 6:07:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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We need to negotiate the same way. First “demand”...all persons must carry a firearm. They want complete disarmament. We ask for complete armament. Discussion ends there.


20 posted on 05/31/2018 6:12:01 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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