"I'm the majority." Doesn't seem that way anymore.
Based on what, the people they interview for the news? The people who support "common sense" gun laws, because they don't want to disagree with the person holding the clipboard and talking about "common sense"?
No, he is still the majority, like it or not.
"You want to put it at my feet." No one is putting it at your feet. You're just playing victim.
Like hell no one is putting it at his feet. One of the most famous gun rights activists around right now has absolutely blamed the deaths of school children on the inaction of people who continue to fight for gun rights.
"You want to restrict my right." Rights come and go. They are "enshrined" in a constitution and taken away on any given day. Stop putting them on a pedestal. They come and go based on the values of the people of the time.
Rights are more important than "the values of the people of the time." If you don't believe me, let's do a poll of what the majority of people in the US currently think of Muslims and transgender people. I don't think you'd want that majority deciding their rights. I wouldn't want that.
"... to protect myself from the people you are talking about." There have been statements from gun rights activists at the Vegas shooting who have reversed their stance because they realised how absurd the idea of pulling at gun out during a shooting is. And didn't an armed guard/cop wait outside during the latest shooting? Owning guns doesn't make you safe. It makes you FEEL safe, but feelings don't match with reality.
I mean, I've heard stories where women were pro-choice until they actually witnessed late-term abortions, and then completely reversed their stance of abortion. But none of that is some smoking gun or "win button" for a debate on the subject.
Also, the idea that it would be of no benefit to have a gun on you during a situation with an active shooter is absurd. Honestly speaking, if you were locked in a room with 30 other people and a single mass shooter, would you want to have a gun or not have a gun?
"The criminals aren't going to turn their guns in." Yeah, no shit. No one expected this to be easy or quick.
Okay, we agree on that.
"The people who are going to suffer will be us." Your people are already suffering from gun violence. More guns isn't going to help.
If I have a gun, learn to use it effectively, learn to use it safely, and keep it locked up in my house, the ONLY thing that gun would be used for is self-protection. It is a net benefit to my safety, and the safety of my family. If I live in an especially bad neighborhood, it becomes even more statistically important.
"Loonies from the left." Come on now. Don't throw stones in glass houses. Or is it bullets in schools? I can't remember the correct idiom for the US.
Bullets in schools isn't much of an issue, statistically speaking. Your chances of dying in a mass school shooting are statistically lower than getting hit by lightning.
Listening to the handful of mass shooting victims about what we need to do about the gun problem in the US is like listening to the handful of terrorist attack victims about what we need to do about the terrorist problem in the US. Both are cases of people using tragedy to further their agenda, however well-intended they may be.
I'm with you on the "loony left" us vs them personal attacks, though. That's just dumb.
"We need to dispel all these myths and drop all this division." Yes, we do.
"We need to drop all this division" is code for "everyone just needs to agree with me," and it's used by the left and the right alike. Ending myths would be good for both sides of a debate, though. Actually looking into the number of mass shootings that use weapons or are committed by age groups that gun control advocacy supporters are opposed to would be a nice start. As would be the realization that the same murders committed by someone using an AR 15 could have been committed with handguns. If you ban certain guns, people will just use other guns. The deadliest school shooting in US history used nothing more than handguns.
Seriously? Counter speech that sparked a revolution? He didn't bring anything new to the table that hasn't already been addressed. It's time to move on and actually make some meaningful changes, rather than being afraid of it. Change with the times, because it isn't going to wait for you.
Neither did you. Neither did I, for that matter. But we agree about speech being a revolution. It's not. It's been viewed fewer than 85,000 times, and that bit about the AR-15 was kind of silly. This is just people celebrating someone who has the same opinion they do. I didn't find it to be a very good speech, and felt it was actually quite bad from a standpoint of trying to appeal to those who disagree with you.
Dude YOU are part of the problem not some fantasy alt-right invasion you claim every other day .
