tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post3632651267007804827..comments2024-03-29T07:16:56.810+00:00Comments on Sean Linnane: MAKING SENSE OF IT ALLSTORMBRINGERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18405613458419510116noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-88891621315218423662012-12-23T05:47:05.145+00:002012-12-23T05:47:05.145+00:00No sale on the "Violent Video Game" thes...No sale on the "Violent Video Game" thesis. It's as much malarkey as Wayne LaPierre's "violent movies" thesis.<br /><br />What's at fault here is plainly, simply, grouping convenient clumps of defenseless sheep together in opposition to the obvious knowledge that some infintesimally small percentage (0.00001%, in fact) of people are homicidally crazy, and a rather larger percentage (about 3%)are criminal, and both will respond with poor impulse control when presented with a free meal. Much like sharks in a chum line presented with a dangling carcass, they tend to be rather predictable.<br /><br />Violent video games were preceded by violent movies were preceded by violent radio plays were preceded by violent operas were preceded by violent books were preceded by violent Shakespearean plays were preceded by violent Greek tragedies, ad ininitum ad nauseum. Blah blah blah. If anyone wants to preach control of expression, HuffPo and DemUnderground are always looking for new (fifth) columnists.<br /><br />Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were driven by which of these influences? They demonstrably murdered more masses than anyone in history. Preceded by Napoleon, Genghis Khan, and the Caesars, who were motivated by which of the above nonsensical "causes"? We all know better than to try such easy (and easily provable as false) "outs".<br /><br />People aren't basically good, they're basically evil. Civilization is fundamentally about getting everyone to curb their inate appetites for killing and destruction and taming them for both their own good and the good of the society, so if we aren't going to blame forks and spoons for obesity we can't blame violent __________ for people reverting to their basest behaviors. That's simply scapegoating something you don't like to spare something you do, which is exactly the stupidity we revile about the Leftist lunatics trying to blame Black Guns and high-cap magazines, instead of themselves, for putting defenseless women and children in easy reach of this latest (but certainly not the last) psychotic twisted little f**ker.<br /><br />And beware of wanting to adopt LaPierre's idiotic kneejerk of more "sheepdogs". The current administration views the TSA as "sheepdogs". D'ya want fat morons who couldn't pass a 4th-grade intelligence test or PE test groping kidergarteners in perpetuity? I'll pass, thanks.<br /><br />Revoke the asinine "gun free zones" nonsense, and return the right of concealed carry to any adult - parent, teacher, staff member, whatever - who isn't a crazy or a criminal.<br /><br />Extend "Good Samaritan" immunity from prosecution to any bystander who acts in defense of others using such weapons according to the same "reasonable man" standard used to keep jackasses from suing people who render aid at traffic accidents, and mass murders will cease faster than icebergs off the Florida Keys.<br /><br />And let's agree to leave the silly scapegoating to the chattering morons on the other side. For the children...?<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Aesop Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-89938737512259174232012-12-19T23:13:01.750+00:002012-12-19T23:13:01.750+00:00The letter Rush's listener wrote is spot on. ...The letter Rush's listener wrote is spot on. Most every point that woman articulated in her email, I have experienced firsthand as I was born in the late 80's. I have seen it amongst my friends, myself, and younger generations of men. There exists a disconnect somewhere in the educational sphere about the simple nature of men ie. natural aggressiveness. <br /><br />Just a small example: the small high-school I attended had seven sports for girls- JV and Varsity. There was only the boys basketball team, and after much male student led outcry they allowed us to create a boy's soccer club, but wouldn't allocate resources for making it an official school team.Monoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-87359841026482434872012-12-19T04:02:00.849+00:002012-12-19T04:02:00.849+00:00Wow. Agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, you are ...Wow. Agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, you are right about boys' learning and what's happened to education. It's OK for girls to be depressed, but boys, not so much. I made the statement that "guns are inert" and got pounced on that I was only saying the old trite mistaken sentiment that "guns don't kill people; people kill people." But I have lived 65 years and I have never seen a gun jump up and pull its own trigger. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-84383018497881421482012-12-18T19:20:58.326+00:002012-12-18T19:20:58.326+00:00Guns are only a means of expressing violence, not ...Guns are only a means of expressing violence, not a cause of it. BlickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com