Sigh, you just don't get it, do you?
It wasn't the gun part that was the issue. It was the planting of the idea in your head that your neighbor was dangerous and could kill your family at any moment.
Let's say your neighbor gets locked out of his house in the middle of the night, and comes over to knock on your door. You see him passing by your window at 3:00 in the morning.
You don't see any problem with this scenario? No likelihood that you might shoot your neighbor because this idea that he was dangerous to your family was planted in your head?
Seriously, you don't see what I'm getting at here? Or are you just playing dumb?
No one in their right mind would pass by a neighbors window at three a.m... not in Texas anyhow!! The fact is there are some that want to make this country into a socialist country and there will be those (like me) who will fight to protect the liberties of this nation. You're trying to say that just by mentioning the people that have a socialist and/or statist point of view, Beck is somehow inciting violence towards them. That is about as absurd a thing as I've ever heard.
If I tell you a rapist or murderer was loose in your neighborhood and you should take measures to ensure your safety, would that be inciting violence? Of course not. Would you shoot every stranger that you see in the neighborhood? Of course not. And that's what Beck is doing, letting American citizens know that there are those that are jeapordizing our liberties and we should be prepared to defend them.
And to answer your scenario, if I happen to see my neighbor, who I believe wants to harm my family, out my window at three in the morning, me being armed to the teeth and knowing that I have every right to defend (with deadly force) myself, my family and my property, I would shoot first and ask questions later. But I would do that no matter who it was outside my window at three in the morning.
Great, so I guess if your neighbor has any kind of trouble in the middle of the night, they shouldn't come asking for help at your house. Sheesh.
And here is the main problem:
You people are clearly under the impression that folks on the left are not trying to do the right thing for their country, which is what they are doing.
We care deeply for our country, and our democracy, and are trying to do things to help average Americans, like lower the cost of health care.
But because of people like Glenn Beck, you and your buddies have been convinced that everything people on the left do is because of some sort of evil conspiracy that they are hatching.
Which makes you and people who think like you, crazy right-wing, black-helicopter conspiracy-theorist extremists.
Even at the worst times of the Bush administration, I still believed Mr Bush thought he was doing what he believed was right for the country. I questioned his methods, not his motivations. I questioned his competency, and his honesty, but I always thought he was doing what he thought was right, even if the means did not justify the ends.
Sure there were some extremists that believed everything that Bush did was based on some crazy evil motive, but that's what made them
extremists. And that's what you are, a right-wing extremist, just like Glenn Beck.
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you're both bat-shit crazy, seeing conspiracies in everything that people who aren't of your particular political persuasion do.
So, of course you don't have a problem with what Glenn Beck is saying,
because he's just like you.
Let me explain a few things to you, though I'm sure it won't make a difference:
- People on the left DON'T want a totalitarian government, they love their democracy, and will not EVER suffer a dictator.
- When we come up with plans like a public option for health care, we are NOT doing it to "destroy capitalism", we are doing it because we truly believe that people will get cheaper, better health care, and we see this as a good thing.
- Mr Obama is NOT trying to take over the country and turn it into a socialist state. With the car companies, he was just trying to save them. Really he was. And the Bank Bailouts were Bush's, not Obama's.
I'm sure you won't believe me, and you'll just continue to listen to crazy conspiracy theories because that's what you want to hear. But hey, it's worth a try.
