Las Vegas carnage and overlooking the obvious.

[basquebromance]

Take your ignorant calls for "gun control" right now and put em where the sun doesn't shine. Be useful: donate blood, pray.

 

[Roudy]

Vegas odds are its either a Muslim or Leftie nutjob. All the victims are country music listers which would obviously be "Trump supporters" or conservatives.

 

[mdk]

Guns don't kill people, violent media kills people.

 

[WinterBorn]

The BRA has claimed suppressors are for deer hunting?

 

[basquebromance]

Jordan McIldoon, one of the victims

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

Laws and Judicial Degrees Made by the "A Punk Is a Hunk" Ciique

Most movie and TV violence shows good guys killing bad guys, or at least shows the subhuman criminals winding up dead. Those who oppose such "violence" want to protect the bad guys.

 

[Pogo]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

Excellent and salient point. The disease of the Cult of Almighty Gun is exactly the issue I joined this site around.

And if there's the slightest doubt that the point is, no pun intended dead on target, witness the myriad attempts to deflect it away to (so far) "silencers" and "laws", "Isis", "heroes that protected lives" and even "Liberals".

Noooooooooooooobody wants to talk about the disease, ever. That's how it was when I got here in 2012 right between Jovan Belcher and Adam Lanza, and they still don't have the guts.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

On October 2nd, the suspect was dead!

 

[Old Rocks]

Naw, they are claiming they are for target practice. Apparently they have never heard of industrial grade noise suppressing ear muffs. Just another expensive item to sell to the fruitloops that are cheering for a new civil war.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

war weapons?

My shotgun is a war weapon to some.

Holds five below and one in the chamber, so weapon of mass destruction to some.

Hate to see their faces if they ever saw a real battlefield weapon...

 

[Pogo]

Why do liberals always want to shoot people?

-Geaux

Why did you post a picture of a Klan funeral march on some trolley tracks in Wisconsin and claim it was the Democratic convention in New York?

Answer that, and I'll answer yours.

 

[Old Rocks]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

On October 2nd, the suspect was dead!

And how many more with arsenals are out there alive? Are you one of them?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

So what, The GOP/DOPers are planning on passing a New Gun Nutter Moron rights' law soon.
So it will be legal to have GUN Silencers. So to protect the shooters hearing.
Not to protect their victims btw.

So..GOP/DOPers,! Now would be the right time to bring that bill up for a vote.
Gun Nutters need to save their hearing when they shoot deer.

Suppressors can be made from PVC, washers, and some brillo pads. Oil filters make great ones. Another leftwing loon who doesn't have a fucking clue what they are talking about.

 

[Pogo]

So, if we take everyone's guns away, will this stop?

Nope. If God Herself oozed down and proclaimed, "that's it, no more guns will be made, ever", there would still be waaaay more than enough to arm every soldier of the Cult of Death. It's not the tool; it's the user.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

So, if we take everyone's guns away, will this stop?

Sure and then I wake beside Vikander and she is my love slave...

Oh you mean in the real world and not morbid dreams!?!

Then no...

 

[Art__Allm]

Most criminals acquire their guns illegally, so gun control would never reduce criminality.

 

[basquebromance]

"Durn tootin’, great shootin’. Cool dude sertin’ he’s 2nd Mendment rahts. Hell yeah! Every country has its psychopaths. In US they have guns" - Richard Dawkins

 

[Old Rocks]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

war weapons?

My shotgun is a war weapon to some.

Holds five below and one in the chamber, so weapon of mass destruction to some.

Hate to see their faces if they ever saw a real battlefield weapon...

For either an AK or an AR, you can empty a 30 shot clip in under ten seconds. That is not a hunting weapon, that is a war weapon. Designed specifically for killing people.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

war weapons?

My shotgun is a war weapon to some.

Holds five below and one in the chamber, so weapon of mass destruction to some.

Hate to see their faces if they ever saw a real battlefield weapon...

For either an AK or an AR, you can empty a 30 shot clip in under ten seconds. That is not a hunting weapon, that is a war weapon. Designed specifically for killing people.

So is my shotgun and believe me it can kill easily in the wrong hands...

What is my point?

You start with the AR and later come for my gun because six rounds can kill too many...

 

[Geaux4it]

Today is a good day to clean my weapons. Might need to defend myself again someday from some whacked out leftist

-Geaux