Gunnuttery category archive
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.
“It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means” 0
Thom explains the true origins of the Second Amendment to a caller.
Aside:
The Second Amendment was all about slave patrols. Any other explanation is, shall we say, ahistorical.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
We are again reminded that “social” media isn’t.
Facebook Frolics 0
Well-regulated Slap-on-the-wrist frolics.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
In Republican World, sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.
Stemming the Flow 0
As Congress lacks the will As the Republican Party resists any effort to curb guns and gun nuts, Marc Dion offers forth an immodest proposal.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When visiting family in the hospital, treat the patient with politeness.
We are a society of stupider.
Misdirection Play, Merchants of Death Dept. 0
Kevin McDermott deciphers the doubletalk.
Kindergarten Kamakaze 0
Afterthought:
I try to imagine any one of my elementary school teachers, all of whom were grandmothers or close to it, packing heat, and I just can’t.
It’s easier to visualize Curly Stooge teaching calculus.
