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I wasn’t paying attention to the news yesterday and completely missed the horrific headlines of the latest bloodletting in Connecticut which comes right on the heels of a mall shooting in Oregon. The reason I looked at the news was because I noticed an old posting I did was getting renewed viewing – The Joke’s on Us: Guns in a Sociopathic Society. I re-read the post and stand by everything in it. There are nearly three times as many licensed gun dealers in America than there are grocery stores. Gun dealers are about as common as gas stations in this country! And I’m reminded again of this society’s ingrained gun culture. Take for instance the Christmas event that was started recently in Arizona:
Scottsdale Gun Club offers photo opportunity with Santa | azfamily …
It’s actually pretty fun, you’ve got the guns with Santa and everything and you get to hold them, just a fun family event,” said Scott Daugherty after taking a family photo with Santa as well.
This is the third year the gun club has offered this “Santa and machine guns” photo opportunity.
While some people find the idea of posing with Santa and guns inappropriate, the line out the gun club’s door proves gun aficionados love it.
“We got here about an hour early to make sure because last year the line was really crazy and we decided not to stay, so we figured we better come early this year, we were about third or fourth in line and we’re off to breakfast and ready to ship these pictures off to our family,” said a woman by the name of Abby on her way out.
Such a yuletide family event by Pax Americana in its twilight years:
I had to go back and look up the definition(wikipedia) of Christmas after seeing those photos. I have to wonder if this gun culture is reinforced by a country whose economy revolves around war and the militarization of our society. Maybe a previous President had a point when he said:
“We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Chart of Smith & Wesson revenues:
I’m sure this year will break records for gun sales. Oh, it already did:
And you think this species has a chance at long-term survival?
Egalitarian dispersal of hierarchical State power is the intended purpose behind the “right to bear arms.”
The Americans’ egalitarian bent expressed in the Second Amendment issues directly from close contact with the egalitarian/power-sharing Non-State eastern woodlands tribes, as documented in Jack Weatherford’s Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America (1992) and Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (1988).
A good example of that dispersed—egalitarian—power being used against an entrenched, elite hierarchy, is The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) in August 1946.
Egalitarianism expressed in the Second Amendment coincides with how Christopher Boehm describes egalitarianism in his Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1999) as a “reverse dominance hierarchy,” that depends on the less powerful to band together “to deliberately dominate their potential master if they wish to remain equal.”
So the “gun culture” you deprecate is one of the strongest expressions in modern times of primitive human society’s egalitarianism.
The Second Amendment is a relic of the frontier days. The “right to bear arms” which you imply is a way to counter State Power is a rather naive belief to put forward. Although Judge Scalia says that you may be able to use hand-held rocket launchers, per the Second Amendment. Still, these would be pea shooters compared to what the State would throw at you.
While it’s rather ironic, at least we know where you stand – firmly with the elite City-Statists (Civilizationists) who don’t want the proles to be able to fight back with the Matrix’s main tool of domination carried by their enForcement Classes.
“Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.” ~Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization, p. 1
Pssst… The coup d’etat is over, and the corporations won.
While you might want to roll over and expose your belly like a submissively whimpering puppy, others still have their wits about them, like assistant principal Joel Myrick who wasn’t so completely domesticated and broken to dependency on the City-State (Civilization) and stopped a murderous rampage in Mississippi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting
Or would you rather 27 be killed like in “gun control” Connecticut?
Well, I guess that answers everything – guns for everyone makes for an “egalitarian” bloodbath. Or, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
…see the TOLES cartoon below.
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Gail said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0Y4qIZ4PA
“If you white and under twenty one, I am running for the hills!” LOL.
More typically Leftist rhetoric; again, thanks for letting us know where you stand, xraymike. An infamously convicted environmentalist penned a rather perceptive exposé of your kind of which he was so very familiar:
“Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom….”
~FC
The danger of Leftism
Industrial Society and Its Future
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-society-and-its-future
Quoting Ted Kaczynski here just shows what a wingnut you are.
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“Gun Control” is right there with “Economic Growth” when it comes to delusional objectives. We can only maintain the illusion of growth through creative accounting that does not factor in the debt to the biosphere that has been created since men started cutting down trees etc. We’ve had human population growth but when it comes to economics there is in fact a balance sheet and there are in fact no “off balance liabilities”. What has grown is debt.
So, what would gun control look like? There are already millions of guns out there. There are millions and millions of bullets out there. If gun control is to take away all the guns, we’d be better served to take back the pollution in the atmosphere. If the idea is to restrict ammo sales then we’ve just created a new black market for smuggled-in foreign ammo.
The problem is brain and organ malfunction due to the toxic conditions we have created. Those conditions, that are what this site is all about. We are seeing the response of organs that are facing conditions for which they have no previous experience. We have no genetic record of successful response to the current conditions on Eaarth. We’re in a giant experiment of molecules and concentrations of molecules and magnetic fields and temperatures and sound and light levels and frequencies of radiation that are not part of our genetic record.
Our organs are making it up as we go.
The mechanism for these heinous acts of mass murder is described by William Sargant in his book, BATTLE FOR THE MIND. Sargant references Pavlov’s dog conditioning experiments in addition to his own observations of “battle fatigue” patients in WWII. He proposes that at high levels of stress the normal response system can have a 180 degree reversal. In this case of extreme stress, what had been a positive stimulus draws a negative response, and vice versa. It seems consistent that these extreme acts could be considered as creators of reverse esteem. In their up side down mind they do a wonderful thing by slaughtering people.
I’m not sure how much the ‘mericanpeople will actually fight to keep their guns.
No doubt some will. All we can do is die trying…
Thought: Demand to own Military strength weaponry is part of a plan to overthrow Democracy in the US: The interest groups led by War Lords shall reign awhile, till the ammunition supply dries up. or they are shot in the back. Usual stuff seen elsewhere,but “it couldn’t happen in America”
The Republic is dead, the Empire that replaced it is dying and the coming fascism is just stretching its wings……………