The thing that gets me about the culture of gun rights activists is that they would even WANT unhinged people being able to access their precious inventory of guns.
Wouldn’t they, of all people, want to be extremely selective about the kinds of people who deserve the right to carry guns?
They love the idea of citizenship. Wouldn’t they be the ones gathering together to demand congress pass laws so that their culture isn’t stained by people who aren’t properly vetted and registered to use guns to protect instead of to incite violence?
I’m amazed that staunch gun rights activists would not only waste their time defending these unhinged people’s ‘rights’ but that they wouldn’t use their time getting them as far away from their gun culture as possible.
To me it makes the NRA itself appear unhinged.
Guns don’t shoot themselves? That’s right. They’re either shot by law-abiding people who find it necessary to own a gun, or they’re shot by people who are looking for a way out of their hell and have found it easier to access a gun than to access help.
That the NRA has decided against common sense has shown, at least to me, that the entire organization has sunk beneath common sense.
Gathering together after the murder of children to banter about evil, as if evil exists on its own, as if it hasn’t been created and mass-produced with the help of an entire society whispering, “You have no value unless you are aggressive at every turn.”
So much immaturity.
And all their advocates and staunch supporters letting their own triggers be pulled like little mini Pavlov’s dogs at the mere mention of words like ‘assault rifle’ ‘ban weapons’ ‘background checks’.
The NRA and those who’ve received much of their fortunes through the NRA have trained their members to be attack dogs instead of offering their members a paradigm through which to think deeply and responsibly.
Poor Eddie Eagle would be in tears.
The NRA could be helping people to juggle multiple contexts at once and be available to discuss solutions with flexibility and nuance so that solutions could work to make not only the gun culture more respectable, but solutions that could actually help keep citizens safer.
But instead, they’ve dumbed it down to dangerous. They’ve indoctrinated their people to viciously support labels at the expense of better ideas.
Well to me, a loud voice is only good for one thing—sounding an emergency. And I hear all those people yelling, but not thinking clearly enough to identify the real emergency and what to do about it.
It’s listening and responding that brings change and invites intelligent conversation to begin.
-JLK
