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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, February 23, 2018

The Dawn Of Understanding

For whatever reasons, most likely pertaining to the heightened politicization of the times, the gun control advocates are beginning to realize something.  There is no persuading Second Amendment Fundamentalists.  They exist within a belief system that is simply impervious to evidence or persuasion.  Reading the linked piece, you can see the violent, authoritarian mindset of the ammosexuals.  Their solution to violent criminals is to be violent with their own children.

Here is a map of states that allow corporal punishment of children in schools:

Here is a map of murder rates:


It's not a perfect correlation, but it's striking.

If you believe that somehow the same video games in Japan somehow lead to America's mass shooting problem, because Jesus, then there is really no ability to persuade that person that their position is wrong on the merits.

There is only one thing to do.  Vote down the pro-gun representatives.  Organize, out vote, win.  Make new rules.

And they can suck on it, frankly, because I'm tired of hearing about how another school or concert or business was shot up with a weapon of war.

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