Tag: Death Machines
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America + Guns = Magical Thinking
Stone cold fact: a significant chunk of America really and truly thinks that having more guns around makes everyone (and America) safer. Never mind that every scrap of data screams the exact opposite. People compelled to own guns don’t care about statistics. Even “responsible gun owners” increase the chances that something bad will happen inside…
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Every Gun Is An Accident Or Tragedy That Just Hasn’t Happened Yet
Repeat: every gun is an accident or tragedy that just hasn’t happened yet. And, while we’re at it, there’s no such thing as “responsible gun ownership”. That’s gun owners wanting to put the best possible face on their gun ownership. They’re not irresponsible jerks like the gun owners whose guns kill people. Their guns could…
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The Second Amendment Does NOT Give Anyone The Right To Own A Gun
Ya wanna be an originalist? Go read the original: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Please point to the word “own”. Good luck. It ain’t there. Instead, the amendment’s authors chose two different words: “keep”…
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What If We Stopped Calling Them “Guns” And Started Calling them “Death Machines” Instead?
Stone cold fact: from the get-go, guns were imagined as a way to kill living things more efficiently than the technologies preceding it could. One can mass murder people with a bow and arrow but it’s way harder than doing it with an AR15. Way harder. Yeah, sure, one can take out a crowd with…
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When Gun Owners Call Themselves “Responsible” What They Mean Is “Lucky – So Far…”
Sorry, “responsible gun owners”, but you’re probably the worst possible judges of your “responsible-ness”. The proof? You call yourselves “responsible gun owners” like it was a magic protective shield against accidents or life’s unpredictability. You seem to honestly believe that you are truly “responsible” – the exception to the rule. Oy… every time a “responsible…