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Re: Firearms
By: guest55 Date: May 26, 2022, 2:02 pm
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The U.S. does not have a firearm problem as much as it does a
mental health and spiritual crisis problem.
The following is not an endorsement of Switzerland either, but
the point of the article reinforces the point I made above:
Switzerland doesn't have mass shootings despite having a high
rate of gun ownership
[quote]Switzerland hasn’t had a mass shooting in 21 years,
despite having about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation
of 8.3 million people. In the U.S., gun death rates are now at
their highest in more than 20 years.[/quote]
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/switzerland-doesnt-mass-shootings-despite-183409778.html
Another:
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2?ref=biztoc.com&curator=biztoc.com&utm_source=biztoc.com&utm_medium=web
Seems many False-Leftist types do not want to admit that
Westerners in general have serious mental health issues, many of
which stem from what they do to their own minds and spirits with
their "entertainment" and "media". Westerners literally make
themselves mental, physically, and spiritually sick. This is
nothing new and has been occurring in the West since the start
of the industrial revolution. This has most likely had a more
dire impact in non-Western America (identity crisis) than it has
in Western-styled Switzerland.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
[quote]'It’s not about guns, it’s about mental health.’
That’s a common refrain conservative politicians typically trot
out in the wake of any mass shooting in America.
It’s one that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott certainly did, speculating
to reporters this week that the gunman had a ‘mental health
challenge’—even though Abbott admitted at the same appearance
that the gunman had no clear history of mental health problems
or criminality. What’s ironic is that if the gunman indeed had a
mental health concern, he probably wouldn’t have been able to
get proper care in the Lone Star State.
Just one month before the Uvalde shooting, Abbott cut more than
$200M from the department that oversees mental health programs.
His home state ranks dead last out of all 50 states for overall
access to mental health care, according to the 2021 State of
Mental Health in America report.[/quote]
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[img]
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The murderer seems to have been bullied. What was Western
colonialism at it's most primitive form if not bullying?
Western civilization is one big mental health problem!
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Re: Firearms
By: guest55 Date: May 29, 2022, 3:26 pm
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U.S. Gun Culture Wasn’t Always Like This | The Mehdi Hasan Show
[quote]In today’s America, everyone carrying guns everywhere is
seen as a hallmark of our exceptional liberty. But it wasn’t
always like this, even for conservatives. Author and law
professor Adam Winkler joins Mehdi to discuss how we fight this
hardline, far-right gun culture that’s left generations of
schoolchildren in America traumatized and unsafe.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRlV-FD5sI
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 30, 2022, 1:15 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-mo-brooks-says-guns-040220710.html
[quote]Rep. Mo Brooks Says We Need Our Guns So We Can 'Take
Back' The Nation[/quote]
We need guns to stop Brooks and his followers!
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 5, 2022, 9:17 pm
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Now we are talking:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/kerr-want-end-school-shootings-090018765.html
[quote]The answer to bring mass shootings in our schools to an
end is right there in front of us, but no one wants to say it.
So, I will.
It’s time to arm the kids themselves.
...
Kids could report to their classroom in the morning, recite
their Pledge of Allegiance, and then be issued their gun for the
day. Just before the final bell, they would turn their weapon
back in to their teacher to be safely locked away until the
following morning.
...
imagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom
only to be faced almost instantly by the barrels of at least 15
to 20 handguns.[/quote]
I agree.
[quote]Naturally. the children would have to be trained in the
use of their weapon. Target practice on the school shooting
range could be incorporated into their regular Physical
Education classes.[/quote]
Exactly.
[quote]Now, we have to be reasonable about this. We obviously
don’t want kindergartners running around shooting each other
accidentally with their tiny fingers, so we would have to
establish a rational age requirement. Say, maybe 10 years
old.[/quote]
Disagree. Mass shooters would then just attack kindergartens.
On the other hand, I propose that any child who has ever hunted
or who has parents who hunt should not be allowed to have a
firearm in school.
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Re: Firearms
By: Polinc_Socjus Date: June 5, 2022, 11:43 pm
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[quote]It's time to arm the kids themselves.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_H5s9uzqM
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 9, 2022, 8:07 pm
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False Left article:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-can-an-ar-15-do-to-the-human-body-a-trauma-surgeon-explains-204850785.html
[quote]She explained that “the blast effect, or the cavitation
effect” that a handgun shot causes is not as wide and
devastating to internal organs as the one inflicted by
high-velocity weapons such as the AR-15 and similar rifles.
“When you see handguns, you often just see a little hole on the
outside on both sides; shotguns, which are a little bit higher
velocity, a little bit bigger. But assault weapons, it's much
bigger,” she said, adding that as a bullet from this type of
weapon penetrates the body, it typically creates a large cavity
that can cause significant bleeding from vessels and completely
destroy soft tissue, as well as organs.
“The organs, for example, like the liver or the spleen, that
aren't very elastic, they can't handle that. They would
basically rupture,” Naik-Mathuria said.[/quote]
The True Left response is simple. Do you want rightists to
experience what is described above? If so, then buy an AR-15!
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 16, 2022, 12:13 am
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The direction we want:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hate-crimes-feel-safe-lead-143000387.html
[quote]Hate crimes, need to feel safe lead to more Black people
buying guns
Georgia resident Destiny Hawkins bought her first gun, a Glock
43, two weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C.
[/quote]
But again, handguns are not enough. Rightists have assault
rifles. We will need to at least match them in firepower per
person just to stand a chance.
[quote]Since May 14, the day 18-year-old Payton Gendron entered
a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and allegedly murdered 10
people specifically because they were Black, it looks like gun
sales among African Americans have continued to rise, the report
contends.
One person interviewed noted that he was “stunned” at how many
other Black people were in line at a Maryland gun shop just days
after the Buffalo murder spree.
“A lot of us have the same idea,” federal employee Michael Moody
told NBC News. “It’s getting bad when someone specifically
targets Black people to shoot. We have to be prepared to fight
back. And you can’t survive bringing a knife to a gunfight.”
[/quote]
It is not much better to bring a handgun to an assault rifle
fight. And don't forget to buy body armour and helmets also.
[quote]According to The National Shooting Sports Foundation, 90
percent of gun stores have reported selling more firearms to
Black people, and gun ownership among Black women is up by a
whopping 87 percent.
“And you wonder why?” asked Moody. “You look at Buffalo and the
feeling of ‘This could have been me’ is there. We could be the
next target. And when it’s you, what are you going to do? Are
you going to run and hide? Or are you going to be able to
protect yourself? Protect your family? I didn’t want a gun; I’m
not a gun person. But this world has made me get one. Getting
one for my wife next.”[/quote]
Those who didn't want a gun should be the only ones allowed to
have guns. Those who are not gun people should be the only ones
allowed to have guns.
But in order to take guns away from the gun people, we need to
have more firepower than they have.
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 21, 2022, 8:16 pm
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More encouraging signs:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-armor-tactical-gear-becoming-161633572.html
[quote]Body armor manufacturers are seeing a spike in sales amid
recent incidents of gun violence in the US, NPR reported.
Increasingly, they're seeing purchases from leftists and
progressives of color who "want to have that protection," a gun
rights advocate said.
"It's becoming popular among leftist progressive people of
color," P.B Gomez the founder of the Latino Rifle Association
told NPR, adding that they "want to protect themselves at
protests when they're in situations where they might be
confronted by far-right agitators."[/quote]
Good! (Next, stop associating leftism with progressivism.)
[quote]In the wake of racially motivated attacks like the
Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, which targeted a
predominantly Black community, groups like the Latino Rifle
Association have argued that body armor is "valid protection
from hate crimes."
"If you are POC or LGBTQ+, highlight the fact that body armor is
valid protection from hate crimes, you don't appreciate New
York's attempt to make you vulnerable," the Latino Rifle
Association tweeted last month.[/quote]
In reality, however, body armour is not intended to protect
peaceful people going about daily activities. It is intended to
protect active combatants who expect return fire. Therefore
while I absolutely support purchasing body armour, I advice
using it the way it was intended: put it on prior to launching
attacks on rightist gatherings.
[quote]"We often heard the good guy with the gun can stop the
bad guy with the gun, but in this case, the bad guy with the gun
had body armor on and the retired police officer, Officer
(Aaron) Salter, could not stop him," New York State Senator Sean
Ryan, who is in favor of the bill, told Spectrum News 1.[/quote]
We must become the good guy with the gun and the body armour so
that the bad guy with the gun cannot stop us!
[quote]Justin, the owner of a co-op that designs and sells
firearm accessories with left-leaning views, told Insider a rise
in right-wing violence "is forcing people to make the choice to
have to protect themselves."[/quote]
You will not be truly protected until all rightist bloodlines
have been eliminated.
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 11, 2022, 1:55 pm
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This is what we need! Selective confiscation of firearms from
rightist ownership only! Our enemies complain:
HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/07/10/far-left-german-minister-wants-to-seize-legal-guns-from-law-abiding-members-of-the-conservative-alternative-for-germany-afd-party/
[quote]he left-wing interior minister of the German state of
Thuringia, Georg Maier, wants to withdraw gun licenses from
Alternative for Germany members, which would effectively result
in a mass weapon confiscation.
...
While the interior minister says that they will target
“right-wing extremists,” this list also apparently includes
law-abiding members of the AfD who have never been convicted of
any crime or shown any sign of participating in terror activity.
The rule would, for example, target AfD members who legally own
weapons as hunters or marksmen, according to German news outlet
T-Online. The letter says that “appropriate revocation
procedures should be initiated against these in principle.”
...
AfD Thuringia is suing against this classification in the report
as being for the protection of the constitution. AfD state
spokesman Stefan Möller criticized the actions of the interior
minister. He accused him of using an adapted weapons law in
Germany “as a substitute criminal law against law-abiding
hunters and marksmen in the AfD.”[/quote]
Certainly (and as I have always argued), anyone who has ever
used a firearm to hunt have proven that they do not deserve to
own firearms. (It is of course no coincidence that hunters are
disproportionately rightists.)
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Re: Firearms
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 23, 2022, 2:25 pm
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Every US leftist should own one of these:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/assault-rifle-being-sold-civilians-105625717.html
[quote]New assault rifle being sold to civilians is twice as
powerful as the AR-15 and capable of shooting through
bulletproof vests, report says
...
SIG Sauer's MCX-SPEAR is the civilian equivalent of the US
Army's NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle), specifically
created to tear through body armor, The Daily Beast reported.
"It'll shoot through almost all of the bulletproof vests worn by
law enforcement in the county right now," Ryan Busse, a former
firearms company executive now a senior policy analyst with the
Giffords Law Center, told the outlet.
The gun fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those
from an AR-15 has a longer range, and has a noise suppressor
that could make a gunman harder to locate, the outlet
reported.[/quote]
because every US rightist will soon own one of these, and if
they have more firepower than we do, they will win.
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