Rigby5
Diamond Member
One has to give republicans (dark money) credit, they have managed to brain wash the snowflake base with BS and more BS. If guns make us safe and secure, why so many gun deaths compared to other civilized nations? If the premise were true we'd have few deaths, but instead we lead in a category no one should be proud of. But I give them credit for keeping their base in line. Mention abortion, gun control, welfare, food stamps, immigrants, and the snowflakes sell their soul, work for peanuts, care nothing for living children, and have poor health services, oh and die too from gun violence. While insanity may be expecting different results, one could also say it is following too close slogans sans positive results. And so it goes....
"The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining." Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
That is easy to explain.
Guns simply empower average citizens, and if things are wrong in society, they will be used more than if things are good in society.
The US is the only country in the world with an insane War on Drugs, which entices poor people with potential huge profits, the side effect being large amounts of cash, turf conflicts, an inability to use banks, an inability to call police if one is robbed.
And you also are forgetting that police shoot thousands of innocents each year, which goes away if you have armed citizens instead of armed police.
Anyone who would arm police and not citizens, not only if a fascist, but has no understanding of law or what a democratic republic means.