Why anti gun people are so angry.....

[Bfgrn]

Like I said before, liberals of our founder's generation had fear filled conservatives to deal with, just like today. Always creating monsters...

And, when the Federalists was authored, there was no Constitution. That was the purpose OF the Federalists.

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

 

[ChrisL]

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

 

[Bfgrn]

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

 

[2aguy]

True, as a general threat to Liberty and because it could be used as an engine of oppression by a President / usurper / tyrant.

True, when the state is acting within its constitutional limits. A government that is operating within the principles of its establishment shall enjoy the protections of the Constitution including prosecution of citizens for the crimes of sedition, treason and insurrection (and terrorist acts).

Wrong. A government that has violated the principles of its establishment and exceeded the express powers granted to it, is no longer --- the government established by the Constitution --- it is something else, something foreign and is not to be afforded the protections of the compact it is violating. That now illegitimate government is subject to the people rescinding their consent to be governed and reclaiming the powers the people originally conferred.

If this de-powering cannot be done peacefully, then circumstances demand, "the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, . . . ", employing the fully retained, forever held out from the powers of government, "right of the people to keep and bear arms".

You were amused reading Federalist 29 without recognizing that the same fear (engine of oppression, etc.) held for "standing armies" was felt for the militia UNDER THE COMMAND AND CONTROL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT . . . "apprehend danger from the militia itself, in the hands of the federal government."

Federalist 29 was written to rebut the opposition to Art I, §8, cl. 16 granting the federal government powers over the state's militias. The state's didn't want a standing army and hey disn't want their militias to be under the command and control oF the federal government, FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS.

As I said, you are just too smart for your own good; you know so much you can't even comprehend what you are reading. You should have been laughing at yourself for believing the anti-gun revisionist history that "our Founding Fathers never imagined a well-armed citizenry to keep the American government itself in check" . . . As I said, Federalist 29 has nothing except butt-hurt for anti-liberty people like you.

Arrogance that springs from abject ignorance is annoying; arrogance that springs from purposeful misrepresentation and deception to serve an anti-constitution political agenda, is offensive and despicable.


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Like I said before, liberals of our founder's generation had fear filled conservatives to deal with, just like today. Always creating monsters...

And, when the Federalists was authored, there was no Constitution. That was the purpose OF the Federalists.

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

 

[2aguy]

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

 

[Bfgrn]

Like I said before, liberals of our founder's generation had fear filled conservatives to deal with, just like today. Always creating monsters...

And, when the Federalists was authored, there was no Constitution. That was the purpose OF the Federalists.

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

 

[ChrisL]

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

No, you are wrong again. You give yourself away by referring to them as "gun clingers" and "gun nuts." YOU are the one who is living in fear, I think. "Gun nuts" as you so lovingly refer to them as, are concerned with preserving our rights as citizens. The 2nd Amendment is a constitutional right, no matter HOW much you try to downplay it.

 

[2aguy]

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

You know...in the past...scientists like the ones you quote explained the intelligence of blacks as inferior to whites because of the shapes of their heads....it is interesting to see lefty scientists are still up to their old tricks...........do you want to discuss what lefty scientists were up to in Germany in the 1940s?

 

[ChrisL]

How idiotic. Lol. What a completely idiotic thing to say.

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

Hee-hee! I think it's hilarious that you are SO biased that you would buy into this stuff. How about sticking to the topic here?

Why are you so angry about your fellow Americans practicing their constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms? Hmm?

 

[Bfgrn]

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

More bullshit posing as facts...

A summary of the Manchin-Toomey gun proposal

1) A specific ban on a gun registry

Some opponents of the amendment claimed that the legislation would have thrown gun owners into a national registry so the government could keep track of them.

"If your private gun transaction is covered by Toomey-Schumer-Manchin (and virtually all will be) ... you can assume you will be part of a national gun registry," the lobbying group Gun Owners of America said. (The group added the name of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, one of the co-sponsors.)

Actually, the amendment outlawed any such registry. In fact, a registry was already outlawed, and the amendment extra outlawed it.

It declared that nothing in the legislation should be construed to "allow the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a federal firearms registry. And it included these provisions:

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

• "The Attorney General may not consolidate or centralize the records of the ... acquisition or disposition of firearms, or any portion thereof."

• "Any person who knowingly violates (the prohibition against consolidating or centralizing records) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both." (The threat of prison was a new layer.)

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

another paranoid thread about guns, from both sides.

Why do I need a gun? Why do you need freedom of speech?

 

[Bfgrn]

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

You know...in the past...scientists like the ones you quote explained the intelligence of blacks as inferior to whites because of the shapes of their heads....it is interesting to see lefty scientists are still up to their old tricks...........do you want to discuss what lefty scientists were up to in Germany in the 1940s?

This is not 'the past'...that right wing "science" was based on fear...

This is actual MRI scans of the human brain.

 

[ChrisL]

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

You know...in the past...scientists like the ones you quote explained the intelligence of blacks as inferior to whites because of the shapes of their heads....it is interesting to see lefty scientists are still up to their old tricks...........do you want to discuss what lefty scientists were up to in Germany in the 1940s?

This is not 'the past'...that right wing "science" was based on fear...

This is actual MRI scans of the human brain.

Sorry, but I'm not buying it. It seems to me, and is obvious to anyone reading, that it is YOUR side who is living in fear. The only problem is, your fear is irrational. You have a bigger chance of drowning in your backyard pool than you have of being shot. Especially when you consider that most legal gun owners do obey laws and are NOT criminals . . . that much being obvious by the fact that they are LEGAL gun owners. Lol.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

You know...in the past...scientists like the ones you quote explained the intelligence of blacks as inferior to whites because of the shapes of their heads....it is interesting to see lefty scientists are still up to their old tricks...........do you want to discuss what lefty scientists were up to in Germany in the 1940s?

This is not 'the past'...that right wing "science" was based on fear...

This is actual MRI scans of the human brain.

oh yes, science you disagree with doesn't count does it? LOL

 

[2aguy]

Ba-ha-ha!

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

More bullshit posing as facts...

A summary of the Manchin-Toomey gun proposal

1) A specific ban on a gun registry

Some opponents of the amendment claimed that the legislation would have thrown gun owners into a national registry so the government could keep track of them.

"If your private gun transaction is covered by Toomey-Schumer-Manchin (and virtually all will be) ... you can assume you will be part of a national gun registry," the lobbying group Gun Owners of America said. (The group added the name of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, one of the co-sponsors.)

Actually, the amendment outlawed any such registry. In fact, a registry was already outlawed, and the amendment extra outlawed it.

It declared that nothing in the legislation should be construed to "allow the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a federal firearms registry. And it included these provisions:

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

• "The Attorney General may not consolidate or centralize the records of the ... acquisition or disposition of firearms, or any portion thereof."

• "Any person who knowingly violates (the prohibition against consolidating or centralizing records) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both." (The threat of prison was a new layer.)

and we know how the gun grabbers think....

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

that is the sticky part....how do you know if a private sale is a violation of the law if you don't know who has the gun originally. So they will mandate a simple record of ownership...you know...so that the guns "come out of the shadows"...especially older guns that have no original paper trail...and the Attorney General won't be consolidating the records......they can mandate the states do it....for the Feds......or they will withhold federal funding for whatever they want...


Please.....this isn't our first rodeo....

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

More bullshit posing as facts...

A summary of the Manchin-Toomey gun proposal

1) A specific ban on a gun registry

Some opponents of the amendment claimed that the legislation would have thrown gun owners into a national registry so the government could keep track of them.

"If your private gun transaction is covered by Toomey-Schumer-Manchin (and virtually all will be) ... you can assume you will be part of a national gun registry," the lobbying group Gun Owners of America said. (The group added the name of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, one of the co-sponsors.)

Actually, the amendment outlawed any such registry. In fact, a registry was already outlawed, and the amendment extra outlawed it.

It declared that nothing in the legislation should be construed to "allow the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a federal firearms registry. And it included these provisions:

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

• "The Attorney General may not consolidate or centralize the records of the ... acquisition or disposition of firearms, or any portion thereof."

• "Any person who knowingly violates (the prohibition against consolidating or centralizing records) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both." (The threat of prison was a new layer.)

and we know how the gun grabbers think....

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

that is the sticky part....how do you know if a private sale is a violation of the law if you don't know who has the gun originally...especially older guns that have no original paper trail...and the Attorney General won't be consolidating the records......they can mandate the states do it....for the Feds......or they will withhold federal funding for whatever they want...


Please.....this isn't our first rodeo....

No, you're wrong on that point. Background checks for individual sales are easy without any sort of registration.

It's simple. If I sell you a gun without a background check and you never commit a crime with that gun, it's no problem, and no one would ever even know.

But if I sell you that gun, and you DO commit a crime with it, you get charged with a further crime if you can't tell the police where you got the gun, and if you tell them from me, and when they come and ask I can't prove that I ran a background check on you, then I get charged with a crime.

As long as the purchaser never commits a crime, the state neither knows, nor cares , if the background check was done. It's only illegal IF the gun is used in a crime.

Done and done.

 

[Bfgrn]

There is no secret that conservatism is based on fear.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

Hee-hee! I think it's hilarious that you are SO biased that you would buy into this stuff. How about sticking to the topic here?

Why are you so angry about your fellow Americans practicing their constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms? Hmm?

Well I just told you in the last post that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property.

Maybe it is not a hearing problem...maybe it is a seeing problem...but I suspect the problem is cognitive.

I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property.

 

[Bfgrn]

Self reflection has never been a right wing trait.

Even this thread is proof... read the fear filled scenarios trying to justify being armed to the teeth, and clinging to guns.

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

More bullshit posing as facts...

A summary of the Manchin-Toomey gun proposal

1) A specific ban on a gun registry

Some opponents of the amendment claimed that the legislation would have thrown gun owners into a national registry so the government could keep track of them.

"If your private gun transaction is covered by Toomey-Schumer-Manchin (and virtually all will be) ... you can assume you will be part of a national gun registry," the lobbying group Gun Owners of America said. (The group added the name of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, one of the co-sponsors.)

Actually, the amendment outlawed any such registry. In fact, a registry was already outlawed, and the amendment extra outlawed it.

It declared that nothing in the legislation should be construed to "allow the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a federal firearms registry. And it included these provisions:

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

• "The Attorney General may not consolidate or centralize the records of the ... acquisition or disposition of firearms, or any portion thereof."

• "Any person who knowingly violates (the prohibition against consolidating or centralizing records) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both." (The threat of prison was a new layer.)

and we know how the gun grabbers think....

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

that is the sticky part....how do you know if a private sale is a violation of the law if you don't know who has the gun originally. So they will mandate a simple record of ownership...you know...so that the guns "come out of the shadows"...especially older guns that have no original paper trail...and the Attorney General won't be consolidating the records......they can mandate the states do it....for the Feds......or they will withhold federal funding for whatever they want...


Please.....this isn't our first rodeo....

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

More bullshit. Why don't you try something new...READ before you emote?

More background checks, but exemptions for family and friends

Manchin, a Democrat, teamed up with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey on the legislation, which came to be known as the Manchin-Toomey amendment (you can read the text of it here). It was a more limited proposal than a larger Senate bill on guns, which would have mandated criminal background checks on all sales between private parties with limited exceptions.

Current law requires checks on purchases only from federally licensed gun dealers. So the Manchin-Toomey amendment attempted to find middle ground by expanding the checks to gun shows and Internet sales, but not requiring them of family members and friends giving or selling guns to each other.

"As under current law, transfers between family, friends and neighbors do not require background checks. You can give or sell a gun to your brother, your neighbor, your co-worker without a background check. You can post a gun for sale on the cork bulletin board at your church or your job without a background check," a press release from the senators said.

For friends buying and selling guns, no background check was required as long as the sale was not advertised online or in a publication.

The amendment went into greater detail on family members, saying that background checks would not be required if "the transfer is made between spouses, between parents or spouses of parents and their children or spouses of their children, between siblings or spouses of siblings, or between grandparents or spouses of grandparents and their grandchildren or spouses of their grandchildren, or between aunts or uncles or their spouses and their nieces or nephews or their spouses, or between first cousins, if the transferor does not know or have reasonable cause to believe that the transferee is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm under Federal, State, or local law."

"It’d have to be pretty distant family" for the background check rule to apply, Chris Calabrese, legal counsel for the ACLU, told PolitiFact.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Um, no. You and your side are the ones who demonstrate "fear." You fear your fellow law-abiding citizens. You fear the right to bear arms. Sad, really.

Most gun homicides are committed by gang members . . . criminals. Criminals who do not obey laws.

Yet it is gun clingers who fear background checks that help prevent 'criminals' from buying guns. I have said more than once on this thread that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property. You gun nuts have a HEARING problem too.

1) we know that a gun registry has been used to ban guns in general in Europe and Australia, and particular classes of guns in our country....California and New York in particular...and that a Universal background check system by design, would need registration of guns to be implemented...in order to track private sales of guns...

2) We know the current system creates more false positives against normal, law abiding citizens than it stops criminals..

3) We know that even with the current background system, criminals and mass shooters still get the guns they want or need to use...whenever they want or need them....

So it isn't that we fear them per se, but we know how anti gunners think and what they want and what methods they will use to achieve their goals...we also know the truth, that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns....

More bullshit posing as facts...

A summary of the Manchin-Toomey gun proposal

1) A specific ban on a gun registry

Some opponents of the amendment claimed that the legislation would have thrown gun owners into a national registry so the government could keep track of them.

"If your private gun transaction is covered by Toomey-Schumer-Manchin (and virtually all will be) ... you can assume you will be part of a national gun registry," the lobbying group Gun Owners of America said. (The group added the name of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, one of the co-sponsors.)

Actually, the amendment outlawed any such registry. In fact, a registry was already outlawed, and the amendment extra outlawed it.

It declared that nothing in the legislation should be construed to "allow the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a federal firearms registry. And it included these provisions:

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

• "The Attorney General may not consolidate or centralize the records of the ... acquisition or disposition of firearms, or any portion thereof."

• "Any person who knowingly violates (the prohibition against consolidating or centralizing records) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both." (The threat of prison was a new layer.)

and we know how the gun grabbers think....

• "The Attorney General shall be prohibited from seizing any records or other documents in the course of an inspection or examination authorized by this paragraph other than those records or documents constituting material evidence of a violation of law."

that is the sticky part....how do you know if a private sale is a violation of the law if you don't know who has the gun originally. So they will mandate a simple record of ownership...you know...so that the guns "come out of the shadows"...especially older guns that have no original paper trail...and the Attorney General won't be consolidating the records......they can mandate the states do it....for the Feds......or they will withhold federal funding for whatever they want...


Please.....this isn't our first rodeo....

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

More bullshit. Why don't you try something new...READ before you emote?

More background checks, but exemptions for family and friends

Manchin, a Democrat, teamed up with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey on the legislation, which came to be known as the Manchin-Toomey amendment (you can read the text of it here). It was a more limited proposal than a larger Senate bill on guns, which would have mandated criminal background checks on all sales between private parties with limited exceptions.

Current law requires checks on purchases only from federally licensed gun dealers. So the Manchin-Toomey amendment attempted to find middle ground by expanding the checks to gun shows and Internet sales, but not requiring them of family members and friends giving or selling guns to each other.

"As under current law, transfers between family, friends and neighbors do not require background checks. You can give or sell a gun to your brother, your neighbor, your co-worker without a background check. You can post a gun for sale on the cork bulletin board at your church or your job without a background check," a press release from the senators said.

For friends buying and selling guns, no background check was required as long as the sale was not advertised online or in a publication.

The amendment went into greater detail on family members, saying that background checks would not be required if "the transfer is made between spouses, between parents or spouses of parents and their children or spouses of their children, between siblings or spouses of siblings, or between grandparents or spouses of grandparents and their grandchildren or spouses of their grandchildren, or between aunts or uncles or their spouses and their nieces or nephews or their spouses, or between first cousins, if the transferor does not know or have reasonable cause to believe that the transferee is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm under Federal, State, or local law."

"It’d have to be pretty distant family" for the background check rule to apply, Chris Calabrese, legal counsel for the ACLU, told PolitiFact.

Shit, some of my family members , I'd INSIST on a background check.

 

[ChrisL]

Yeah, sure. It is not FEAR to acknowledge the truth. In fact, I would say that you liberals are in fear. You fear your fellow Americans. You are also not very bright, wanting to arm a rogue country with nukes. This is not based in FEAR but in common sense.

There is even scientific proof...

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscience -- is considered sacrosanct.

But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Or the truth...that the liberal center of the brain for truth, rationality, facts and common sense is grossly underdeveloped.....hence the resistance to reality, the truth, facts and common sense...........and the part of the brain that protects the self concept of the individual is so over developed it contributes to a false sense of superiority........

It explains why, when there is, in fact, crime each and every day, the typical liberal believes it does not exist, so there is no need to take common sense, precautions in case these situation arise.......

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't just make shit up and call it facts....

The study of the brain not only found that conservatives have larger fear centers (amygdala), conservatives have a smaller anterior cingulate, which is responsible for courage and optimism.

Liberal brains have more gray matter associated with anticipation and decision-making.

Brain study reveals right-wing conservatives have larger primitive amygdala Daily Mail Online

Hee-hee! I think it's hilarious that you are SO biased that you would buy into this stuff. How about sticking to the topic here?

Why are you so angry about your fellow Americans practicing their constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms? Hmm?

Well I just told you in the last post that I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property.

Maybe it is not a hearing problem...maybe it is a seeing problem...but I suspect the problem is cognitive.

I SUPPORT the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family and their property.

Sorry, but I'm not a newbie to these kinds of forums. You are not fooling me. You are what we refer to as an "incremental" gun banner. And plenty of liberal "thinkers" would just love to take away our 2nd amendment right. It is important that we defend ALL of our rights equally, even the ones you may not like. I'm sure that you can figure out the WHY.