I guess...seems rather illogical to blame something that has never been actually the reason...and moreover does nothing by advocate for a civil right, and teach firearm safety...Because it's an easy target. No pun intended.So why is the left blaming the NRA?I don't know. None that I can think of.when has a mass killer said the NRA drove them to do the killing?That's correct.You: Give them credit, the NRA and talk radio have spent the last 3+ decades filling these guys with both rage and paranoiaI believe that you believe I did.Sure you did. You just won't own it now that you have been called out to prove it.As I tried to explain, I didn't say what you claimed I said.Why are you running away from your post?I blamed the NRA for these shootings?You blame the NRA for these shootings, yet can't show a single shooter who is associated with the NRA in any way.What did that have to do with my post?Were either of these recent shooters members of the NRA?Give them credit, the NRA and talk radio have spent the last 3+ decades filling these guys with both rage and paranoia. Guns are a natural fit for that.The grim reality is that the entire nation is in the thrall to a minority of extremely insecure mostly white men who, drunk on decades of NRA-fueled propaganda, have decided that having the ability to commit mass murder at a moment's notice is a crucial component of maintaining their manhood against the ever-encroaching threats from de-gendered Potato Heads and lady video game players. Most of these men claim exoneration because they don't personally grab one of their many overpriced killing machines to lay waste to a grocery store or high school. Grotesquely, some even use these mass shootings to indulge in public fantasies about how they would totally stop an active shooter, though somehow they never seem to actually get around to doing it. But ultimately, they've become complacent in the face of mass murder from decades of being told by right-wing media that there's a binary choice between preventing murder and watching Michelle Obama personally run off with their testicles in her handbag. Worse, the right has cultivated an overall suspicion of the very concept of concern for the lives of others at all.
Pollster Frank Luntz recently held a focus group of vaccine-hesitant Republicans, and one of the justifications offered for refusing to get the vaccine was chilling precisely because the defiance was conveyed so matter-of-factly: "We are not all in this together."
The comment really cut to the heart of the cultivated stance of sociopathy that has fueled the GOP for decades now. There is much that conservatives think is owed to them, like the icons of their childhood such as Mr. Potato Head or Dr. Seuss to never change with the times, or for Ghostbusters to never be female, or to never have to press 1 for English nor ever see a Black athlete kneel instead of stand during the national anthem.
The NRA way of life is ruining our nation
Decades of gun propaganda has created a nation of sociopathswww.salon.com
And lets not leave out the sociopaths in Congress. The majority of America wants tighter gun restrictions, and the tyranny of the minority won't be able to hide behind the filibuster much longer.
Today, these guys think the commies will be rolling down the street at any moment, literally, and that their God is on their side, literally.
No?
Ok, STFU.
Nothing?
Okay.
Keep clutching those pearls, Nancy.
You're so hypersensitive and emotional that you just make stuff up in your mind.
I can't help you with that, sorry.
Give them credit, the NRA and talk radio have spent the last 3+ decades filling these guys with both rage and paranoia
You guys are too emotional for me. You're not attached to reality.
This is the kind of thing that is so fascinating about you people.
Again, there is nothing I can do about that.
The person who pulls the trigger is responsible for what happens.
If some Antifa idiot throws a brick through a window, that's his fault, even though he exists in an ideological environment that enables and motivates that crime.
Is this too complicated for you, slugger?
Both ends of the spectrum do that.
I wonder why the left never goes after Hollywood or Silicon Valley, which both glorify gun violence in movies, TV and video games....and frankly, I have heard killers use as a defense for their actions before