Gunnuttery category archive
The Water Bearers 0
Aside:
Today’s Supreme Court is unprecedented. Except possibly by Justice Taney.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We seem to be in dog days of politeness.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes to the dogs.
Where It’s Always High Noon . . . . 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Scott Bonn takes issue with the notion mass shooters are “mentally unhinged individuals who simply ‘snap,'” pointing out that “the majority of mass public shooters are individuals who would not be classified as either clinically or legally insane . . . .” He thinks the problem is much larger, embedded in our very culture and mythos. An excerpt:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for his arguments.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yes, indeedy-do, one of those responsible gun owners shot himself in the foot.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness at the drive-thru window.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner–oh, you know the rest.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
America’s Exceptionalism 0
At the Hartford Courant, Karl E. Scheibe asks a (rhetorical) question:
Why is the United States uniquely troubled with gun violence?
Follow the link for his answer.
The Common Denominator 0
At The Roanoke Times, Sociologist Theodore Fuller points out that guns are the problem.
(snip)
We have not always had this distorted interpretation of the Second Amendment. The idea that the Second Amendment means that any Tom, Dick, or Harry has a Constitutional right to purchase any weapon, no matter how deadly, has been sold to the American people by the NRA. And the NRA did not always have this interpretation. They started selling this idea in the 1970s.
To put it bluntly, that’s when the NRA morphed from being primarily a safety organization for hunters to being the marketing agency for merchants of death.
Follow the link for the rest.