What follows are three headlines I swear I did not make up or embellish in any way. Links are provided purely as proof of premise, there’s no reason to actually click on them because I promise the headlines really do reflect the contents. But go for it if you don’t believe me.
COMMENTARY: NRA stifling academic freedom
Every armed person is someone just waiting to become a criminal
Three headlines from three widely-separated sources, and I could have found plenty more had I been feeling so masochistic. They’re not at all rare.
As gun ownership spreads across every imaginable non-moonbat demographic and gun carrying becomes normalized without ushering in any semblance of the apocalypse, gungrabber rhetoric grows ever more hysterical and decoupled from reality. These sad, neutered, angry people are losing the argument at present, know it, and it is apparently not shocking them into anything like self-examination.
Instead, they are increasingly forced into dependence on the Big Lie: Don’t pussyfoot around interpreting the truth, lie big, lie outrageously, lie repeatedly, back it up with what looks like statistics even if it’s just random numbers in a box, and somebody will believe you. Get people with impressive-sounding credentials to tell the lies shamelessly enough, and maybe even enough people will believe you to sway the politicians who write the laws, thus reversing this lamentable trend of self-empowerment.
Why is it so important to them? I mean, I understand why the likes of Hillary Clinton does it. She means to rule, and she’s afraid of getting what she deserves in return. In her perfect fantasy world, she is necessarily in command of all the guns. But none of the losers who wrote those three editorials above are ever going to rule anybody.
They’re apparently not afraid of a world where the bad guys are armed and the good guys are helpless. That’s the world they grew up in and to which they want to return. The hysterics only start when their fellows, people who wish them no harm, start arming themselves against the bad people. They claim to fear that any argument will cause bloodshed, but evidence for the opposite proposition is by now so overwhelming it’s hard to accept that they really believe that. A large and growing percentage of ‘law-abiding citizens’ now walk around armed all the time, and blood stubbornly refuses to run in the gutters over every little disagreement. In fact violent crime is way down from the time before one state after another legalized concealed carry. Gungrabber predictions have decisively failed to come true.
And the only effect any of that has had on gungrabbers is to get them to crank up the volume and the hysteria. It makes no sense to me.
I think they confuse an armed society with a duelling society, where they might be challenged and killed on the whim of the bullies that rule in such a society. In the unarmed society they are accustomed to they can insult with impunity; in a duelling society their insults die on their lips, unspoken. The armed society we currently have is not a duelling society, but it’s easy to confuse with one, via the usual Heinlein quote “An armed society is a polite society.” Better the unarmed society they know, goes their thinking, than this strange new society where they’d have to behave like adults.
Their worldview is imploding and they can’t stand it, thus the hysteria.
Makes no sense? Of course not, there is none to be had.
I, personally, would like to see duelling brought back.
Being an asshole in public should have immediate, permanent consequences. Pour encourager les autres, and all that.
I seem to recall Motherbatherick challenging someone to a duel on that other site. I also seem to recall agreeing to be his second. I think we were gonna slay Jac…Lil’P… Velo……or PK….or somebody. Maybe it was the insidious Mr. Bill. Dunno.
About the hopolophobs, when confronted with fact and reason, they simply shout louder. It’s a display of their stunted maturity. It’s the chronologically adult equivalent to the sticking of fingers in the ears and loudly chanting: “I can’t her you lalalalalalalalalala”.