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originally posted by: TownCryer
a reply to: Sunwolf
Yes, I know what I'm talking about. Just because you don't like it, (which by the way, who cares what you like?), doesn't mean that I'm talking out my a$$. You gun nuts are going to keep pushing your completely wrong 2nd Amendment adgenda so far, (you walk into a McDonalds lately with you high-powered killing maching strapped to your back?), until the governement has no choice but to crack down. I'd love to see how Die-Hard you are when a SWAT team's at your front door. I know, I know - you talk a big big game now, here on-line, when you're not starring at a dozen maching gun barrels. But in real life, I'm pretty sure you'd fold up like your NRA applications. Most people in this country believe that tougher gun comtrol laws are way over due. The other fanatics on this site are not representative of society. Believe what ever the hell you want, but those laws are coming, and you will comply, or go down. You know what? No one else really gives a crap about what happens to you.
Yes, I know what I'm talking about. Just because you don't like it, (which by the way, who cares what you like?), doesn't mean that I'm talking out my a$$.
You gun nuts are going to keep pushing your completely wrong 2nd Amendment adgenda so far, (you walk into a McDonalds lately with you high-powered killing maching strapped to your back?), until the governement has no choice but to crack down.
I'd love to see how Die-Hard you are when a SWAT team's at your front door. I know, I know - you talk a big big game now, here on-line, when you're not starring at a dozen maching gun barrels. But in real life, I'm pretty sure you'd fold up like your NRA applications.
Most people in this country believe that tougher gun comtrol laws are way over due. The other fanatics on this site are not representative of society.
Believe what ever the hell you want, but those laws are coming, and you will comply, or go down. You know what? No one else really gives a crap about what happens to you.
originally posted by: TownCryer
And allowing anyone who can fill out an application to get a rifle that armies issue to their soldiers, is foolish, and will change, whether you like it or not.
originally posted by: fishy6
a reply to: gladtobehere
Every family in America should own a 22LR, AR15, AR10 and a 45 ACP and teach their kids to shoot.
originally posted by: Astrocyte
Ah, this thread and this site in particular could make up a whole psychology course. You could call: The Psychology of Conspiratorial Thought: bio-social factors in predisposing unorthodox thinking.
So many of you know so little about how your own minds are working as you prattle on about Obama and conspiracy and a new world order. So little consideration is taken of the scientific method. You just ascribe motives - and with those motives come such amazingly unreasonable and unjustified assumptions about the present moment - about the people you're talking about, and overall, ignoring psychological facts about human nature.
You will of course invoke the past, the Nazis, the Soviets, the Fascists, and other totalitarian regimes, and you will probably insist that if the public isn't armed to the teeth, the leaders that be - for whatever satanic reason - will gradually being into being a police state. And when the police state is in place, what then? People will be systematically murdered?
The past does not repeat itself, in the exact same way. Of course, there are general patterns which often repeat themselves. But this does not mean that people can't learn from their past. For example, I was one way at 19, and at 28 (my current age) I am significantly changed. Things I did when I was 19 I would not do today. People can change, and they change because they have either learned to think differently about things, or some environmental circumstance has led to (unconscious) changes in how they think.
There are two major factors influencing contemporary society that didn't exist in the 1940s. They are:
1) The Internet
2) Watchdog organizations.
In other words, there are so many eyes on government, so much open communication about the happenings within society, that it would be utterly improbable that a police state would emerge.
Now, again, you can say "when you have a gun in your face you do what you're told", that is, a public without guns would be helpless before a government which wields police forces equipped with the kind of weaponry showed in the above pictures.
To me, this simply does not sound reasonable. Todays cultural consciousness and awareness is substantially more evolved than that of the 1940s. Simply contrast todays present media - which would mean books, tv, magazines, internet, theatre - with the cliched rhetoric of the 40s. Of course, I know there is still a long way to go in improving our cultural consciousness, but so much more is spoken about openly today, and there is conscientious discussion on every topic you can think of from CNN, to the View, to University classrooms.
This thread has focused in so narrowly on the "possible" reality that it has excluded from contention an EVEN MORE probable reality: that the world we see is an act of creation. That is, it takes myriads of DIFFERENT human beings to build the world we see. Obama is just one man. He is limited by innumerable factors. Anyone who has a decent understanding of politics understands the pressures placed on government from business, science, religion and environmental groups. WE DONT NEED GUNS - we already have this.
The people who preside in positions of power likely want to make the world a better place. They probably appreciate the genius and wisdom that has gone into making human civilization. With the advancement in technology and the promise of a better life for a greater percentage of people, it would take someone impervious to the psychology of human experience to think that everyone in government - and the president "especially' would only have macabre interests like tearing apart civil society and putting police on every corner.
Most normal people don't want such a world. And theres good reason to think that politicians are "so different" from the average person, that their interests align with the "dark side", as opposed to a more logical and informed perception of the politican as: prone to corruption, but still affected by the underlying exigencies that shape the minds of all other human beings.
They dont have AK's first off stop listening to pierce morgan, didnt brittain take him back yet?