As you realized that was directly your quote from one of the climate change threads where we were discussing nuclear power with the single change I made to reference shooting in italics.
I used your quote to maybe get your attention and put some thought into your position instead of immediately gainsaying it like you’ve done to most of the other posts here.
I’m not sure what CBD is either. Since it was your quote I assumed you would know. Probably conservative or cognitive brain defect.
Likewise I’m shocked that you’ve put so much effort and ego into your firearm ownership. I wouldn’t have thought that someone who was so against the risk of commercial nuclear power which hasn’t killed anyone in the US doesn’t see the problem with guns in the US. I mean Chernobyl potentially killed 100,000 in the 35 years since the accident. In the same time we’ve had over 1.2M gun deaths and 1,000s of school shootings. There are many moms there that might disagree with your stance
I’m not against self-defense and I don’t want to see self-defensive criminalized but the facts speak for themselves. Outside of some very specific circumstances owning a gun makes you less safe. What you are doing with your weapons by being responsible helps decrease that safety deficit but it never brings it back to equal.
This thread is proof of that risk. The guy was obviously well trained but started hearing voices. How can you be responsible when your own mind starts failing you?
I recognized the argument not the quote. CBD would indeed be Conservative brain defect. I take a similar position with regards to banning guns, it goes against human nature, the right of self defense. As I have argued before, I have no doubt that statistically gun ownership can be risky to gun owners but I believe it is their right to make that assessment, not the right of fearful authoritarians to make it for them. I have no doubt either that that easy gun availability makes attacks with guns more likely. I am for rational gun control. I regard banning guns as absurd as promoting nuclear power, there is profound resistance to it. I like guns. In an ideal world I would be a collector, assuming money time and interest which would also mean I would have to be less interested in other things. Guns are absolutely irrelevant to my sense of well being. I would be tickled pink if they were never invented. But here they are and in the millions and I'm not holding my breath that they will be banned in America. That is why I focus not on gun bans but on mental health issues. In a sane world everybody could have a million guns and nobody would be in danger with perhaps a few exceptions where there are organic causes and not self hate issues causing the mental illness.
In time the freedom to own a gun that our forefathers saw so much wisdom in may fade where fear of victimization outweighs traditional norms of freedom. Everyone not physically endowed with a powerful physique will have to rely on someone else who has a gun to protect them. I pity those who would otherwise successfully defended themselves who will die as this result of the fear of others being able to protect themselves. Fear makes people insane. This thread, in my opinion, is full of just such people.
I have devoted lots of posts to what I see as the rise of fanaticism on the left, cowardly little chicken shits suffering herd mentality, programmed fearful bots, knife wielding bully putdown artists.
And what really happened to the mind of the individual in question? It seems he lost a job and a women. Not many better ways to make a self hater feel worthless. What if he had lived in a culture that taught those things could trigger feelings that were in fact only lies we learned as children.
A sophisticated person wise to the ways of the self will find opportunity in feeling offended. He or she will know that what is happening is a door to a suppressed feeling is being pried open and a chance to explore and heal is being offered. The ignorant will think the devil is trying to take possession of them. But. as I have said many times, people would rather kill than remember how deeply hurt they were as children. And woe unto anybody who tells them so. You can always tell the biggest self haters in that crowd.
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