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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once more, politeness becomes child’s play.
Aside:
If you have taken driver refresher classes, I have (to get a break on my insurance rates), you may have noticed that the instructors do not refer to automobile “accidents.” They refer to “crashes.” One instructor told me that this was a purposeful change in terms, to emphasis that almost all vehicle “accidents” could have been prevented if the driver or drivers, depending on how many vehicles were involved, had done something differently.
I hold that the same applies to shootings. A shooting may be intentional or it may be negligent, but it cannot be “accidental.”
Real Big Men 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., runs the numbers.
The Common Denominator 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini notes what it’s not.
It wasn’t a covert CIA operation.
It wasn’t pornography.
It wasn’t video games.
It wasn’t anti-depressants pushed by “Big Pharma” or the “lecturing” of dominant women or the influence social media.
Follow the link to see what it is.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,” Originalist Sin Dept. 0
Michael Paul Williams has some qualms about “original intent” as interpreted by the current majority of Supreme Court:
Follow the link for context.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
America leads the world in one category in which no one else would desire that leadership, mass shootings. By making weapons of war available to damn near everyone, we provide significant numbers of unstable folks with the ability to kill large numbers of people with stunning efficiency, all to prop up gun manufacturers’ profits, which is shared through lobbyists with politicians for their complicity in the sales scheme.
Elsewhere, Michael in Norfolk observes that we are becoming a nation of hostages.
“Ban Ladders” 0
David discusses the ridiculous pretzel logic that gun nuts use to pretend that the proliferation of firearms is in no way related to the proliferation of persons using firearms to randomly rub out large numbers of persons (warning: short commercial at the end).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner discharges his responsibility–this time into his own leg.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Protest your expulsion from the public house with politeness.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness when passing other motorists on the nation’s highways.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yes, correlation can sometimes indeed show causation.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Florida Man had his politeness in the bag.