SouthernBoy wrote:
I have used this little piece of text a number of times this past year. Very true in this case.
However, the one thing I believe is common across the board with these people. They don't like guns. And they don't want to own them. But it's not enough that they don't like them and don't want them. They don't want us to have them either.
In most cases, we would not try to shove our ideas, concepts, and opinions down their throat. They, on the other hand have no problem doing just that. While we wouldn't dream of forcing them to own and carry guns, they have no compunction trying to remove our rights to do just that.
And perhaps the most outrageous thing about their agenda is this. They are perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of innocent victims on the alter of their "greater good" than to "stoop to our level" and admit that maybe, just maybe, a gun could have saved the day for someone.
I think you have to consider the personality types that are involved here. I agree with your assessment that these are people who have no problem ramming their agenda down the throats of others. Last I looked we have one right here on this forum with that same trait.
That is why they do not like firearms. They know that someone might just use a firearm to stop them from forcing their idea of Utopia on the rest of the world.
So in fact their fear is quite real, because while most people here would agree that everyone has a right to their opinion, we all also have a right to oppose the opinions of others. But so long as you have a firearm you have the upper hand in the discussion because you can silence opposition and THAT my friend is what they are afraid of.
If you notice their argument is frequently based on the example of someone becoming angry and attacking people with the firearm. In fact if you push them they will usually admit that that is how they might react if they had a firearm. They do not come by that vision without cause. These are people who frequently irritate others, by forcing their views on people around themand so they provide you the example that scares them the most and the one they think they would actually see in their lives. To them this is a real fear and if you remove the firearm from that scenario, it provides them the safety to do as they please without fear that they might get shot for pushing their ideas on an unwilling person or society.
In the case of the Brady group their vision of being shot for ideas is not far from the truth. Although Brady himself was actually collateral damage in the attempt on President Reagan's life, Brady's wife does not see it that way. She sees all firearms owners as fanatics who can at any moment burst forth in a fit of violence and kill an innocent person. She does not see any possible provocation behind these incidents beyond the ability to carry them out, and it is the firearm that makes it possible.
While I do not wish to seem insensitive, people like her are shameless in their use of anything to reach their goal, including pushing Brady out on the political stage in a wheel chair to silence those who oppose her by shielding herself behind him. Notice how little he is allowed to speak, and when he does how he repeats the same lines over and over. While tragic that is all that is left of Mr Brady, and his wife is using that to its fullest.
We all keep pointing out that knives, ball bats, sticks, cars and lots of other stuff are or can be just as deadly. But that argument falls on deaf ears because what they see is that a firearm allows you to reach out an touch someone from a great distance and do so with anonymity. This is why they fear the Barrett .50 so much. Listen to them and all they talk about is that you can hit a target from over a mile, and the thing shoots through armor plate. Try that with a car, a knife, or a ball bat.
In short, yes they are crazy. But not totally without cause, because they have a fear of being shot for what they are trying to do. Until they can get the guns out of the hands of citizens, the rest of the socialist agenda cannot be enforced.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Regards
