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12/20/12, 22:44
Clever girl..... |  | Russell Brand answers a question
12/19/12, 00:58
Sea gulling!!! | | Rep. Louis Gohmert Doubles Down on Arming Teachers
12/18/12, 10:26
Also his great study is bullshit in another level. South Africa used to be such a high crime area, that everyone had a gun. Problem was the criminals knew this, and still robbed. People still got car jacked before they could pull their gun because the car jacker had the initiative. People where held hostage in their homes, and usually asked to unlock their gun safe with an intruders gun pointed at them. Fuck Louis Gohmert and his "study". | | Rep. Louis Gohmert Doubles Down on Arming Teachers
12/18/12, 10:20
As N.R.A. president Wayne LaPierre expressed in a recent statement on the organization’s Web site, more guns equal more safety, by their account. A favorite gun rights saying is “an armed society is a polite society.” If we allow ever more people to be armed, at any time, in any place, this will provide a powerful deterrent to potential criminals. Or if more citizens were armed — like principals and teachers in the classroom, for example — they could halt senseless shootings ahead of time, or at least early on, and save society a lot of heartache and bloodshed.
As ever more people are armed in public, however — even brandishing weapons on the street — this is no longer recognizable as a civil society. Freedom is vanished at that point.
And yet, gun rights advocates famously maintain that individual gun ownership, even of high caliber weapons, is the defining mark of our freedom as such, and the ultimate guarantee of our enduring liberty. Deeper reflection on their argument exposes deeper fallacies.
In her book “The Human Condition,” the philosopher Hannah Arendt states that “violence is mute.” According to Arendt, speech dominates and distinguishes the polis, the highest form of human association, which is devoted to the freedom and equality of its component members. Violence — and the threat of it — is a pre-political manner of communication and control, characteristic of undemocratic organizations and hierarchical relationships. For the ancient Athenians who practiced an incipient, albeit limited form of democracy (one that we surely aim to surpass), violence was characteristic of the master-slave relationship, not that of free citizens.
Liberty entails precisely the freedom to offend. A gun in every pocket would stifle that.
Arendt offers two points that are salient to our thinking about guns: for one, they insert a hierarchy of some kind, but fundamental nonetheless, and thereby undermine equality. But furthermore, guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name — that is, freedom of speech. Guns do communicate, after all, but in a way that is contrary to free speech aspirations: for, guns chasten speech.
This becomes clear if only you pry a little more deeply into the N.R.A.’s logic behind an armed society. An armed society is polite, by their thinking, precisely because guns would compel everyone to tamp down eccentric behavior, and refrain from actions that might seem threatening. The suggestion is that guns liberally interspersed throughout society would cause us all to walk gingerly — not make any sudden, unexpected moves — and watch what we say, how we act, whom we might offend." | | Alex Jones - Obama Faked His Tears to Come After Your Guns
12/16/12, 21:57
Hey Gmork and Glasseye, apparently the Aussie's, with their down under logic are right along with our backwards logic. And correct.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/brothers-in-arms-yes-but-the-us-needs-to-get-rid-of-its-guns-20120731-23ct7.html
Fuck your logic. Fuck your need for something that you claim is a toy. If it was a toy it would have a plastic orange tip at the end, because that's a government law. | | Alex Jones - Obama Faked His Tears to Come After Your Guns
12/15/12, 13:26
Damn auto correct, making sex out of my ironic sez | | Alex Jones - Obama Faked His Tears to Come After Your Guns
12/15/12, 13:25
"What practical purpose does it serve to have guns that can fire between fifteen and thirty rounds in one second? Would more people have survived the recent mass shootings if the killers had to work with slower guns that had reduced capacity to hold ammunition?"
I think Binro is correct on this, and no it wasn't designed to be a toy. I don't think guns should be outlawed. I do think that no one needs a gun with a clip bigger then five bullets. No one is G.I. Joe, the cowboys at tombstone, being chased by a terminator, or ever going to see thirty deer standing around a sign that sex "shoot us".
Five for evil, fuck Alex Jones. | | 100 Greatest Shut Ups in Films
12/14/12, 05:52
Well your dead now, so shut up! | | The Milli Vanilli story
12/10/12, 11:56
To fight evil, one must make love to it.
Five stars for the ending. I wish they were reserved for the beginning, but there it is. | | Hannity and Palin deliver startling news about the Left
12/05/12, 06:52
Looking forward to victory in 2016. Oh, and fox news trying to attract the Latino vote by eating burritos on air while "la cucharahca" plays in the back ground. | | Arm exploded because of using Synthol
12/05/12, 06:28
That's a nice tattoo. | | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (full movie)
12/02/12, 17:22
Those are some historic babes. | | The greatest play in NFL history
11/30/12, 00:21
Five for evil. | | shut up
11/14/12, 23:49
I think I'm turning Japanese, so I'll shut up now.
Best guitar solo ever, I think I can play the drums in a similar style now. | | Sean Hannity's position on immigration has evolved
11/09/12, 21:38
And to commemorate my evolution, I will now eat a beef and bean burrito while "la cucaracha" plays in the background. Viva la citizenship! | | Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016
11/07/12, 20:28
*Orb* | | Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016
11/07/12, 20:28
Hillary Clinton announces she has not ruled out running in 2016. Ord quadruples in size. | | 'The White Establishment Is Now The Minority' - Bill O'Reilly
11/07/12, 16:41
Oh Blue, its all good in the hood! | | 'The White Establishment Is Now The Minority' - Bill O'Reilly
11/07/12, 11:23
Old white man realizes he isn't as entitled to as many things as he used to be. | | Ohio Romney Rally - Interviews with Supporters
11/02/12, 10:16
He's all three! I wonder what's going to happen to that lady after the election. I wish it would be make a margarita or martini and kick back and relax. But I think spontaneous combustion is her fate, regardless of who wins. | |
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