Recreational Shooting
Personal Protection
Because millions of fundamentalist, racist, homophobic lunatics own them, and that scares the hell out of me.
I don't see jr's comment as being hate oriented at all. Just the opposite. It's realistic. He is protecting himself from the haters. People who hate others for no other reason than the color of their skin, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, etc. truly are scary people deserving to be feared.
Recreational Shooting
Personal Protection
Because millions of fundamentalist, racist, homophobic lunatics own them, and that scares the hell out of me.
Recreational Shooting
Personal Protection
Because millions of fundamentalist, racist, homophobic lunatics own them, and that scares the hell out of me.
1. Why would strict adherence to a religion that demands kind, peaceful treatment of one's neighbors scare you?
Because while a religion may demand it, the so-called faithful of some religions do not always follow the teachings. Whether that's attributable to prejudice or to their simply being fallible human beings, I cannot say.
2. How do you define 'racist'? By some people's definition, I am automatically a racist by virtue of not agreeing with Obama and more so by having a problem with the likes of Jackson and Sharpton making a cottage industry out of perpetuating a rift that needs healed.
You're not the racist. They are. That word has become the latest in a series of trump cards to use when losing an argument. Certainly, there are some who own guns and are *exceptionally* racist, in many directions. I personally find such behavior contemptible, moreso when it results in violent action.
3. How does disapproval of selected behaviors based on the belief that they are morally wrong translate into an irrational fear of the behaviors and/or the practitioners of these behaviors?
See above, on both points. Mere disapproval is not, in and of itself, worthy of fear. Sadly, however, there have been many people who have been injured or died because some took their belief and turned it into action. (look up the name Matthew Shepherd) Groups such as the Pink Pistols and posters such as this one, from Oleg Volk, exist to put a quick end to such threats, hopefully without violence, but allowing for the necessity, should it be there. "Better to have it and not need it..." and so forth.
4. How do any of the above serve to indicate that a person is insane? In some cases I would agree that such a person is misguided, but that does not stand in evidence of being mentally deficient or unstable.
I don't see jr's comment as being hate oriented at all. Just the opposite. It's realistic. He is protecting himself from the haters. People who hate others for no other reason than the color of their skin, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, etc. truly are scary people deserving to be feared.
How does disagreement stand in evidence of hate. In fact, I get sick and tired of being accused of 'hate' when disagreement is the actual condition at hand. You also fail to take into account that valid, objective observations are no less truthful when they are not politically correct. A favorite example would be the cry of racism on account of prison populations being demographically dissimilar with the general public and the charge that this is prima facie evidence of racism while completely ignoring the simple fact that the prison population represents the people who were caught, tried, and found guilty (and also that people of all demographics occasionally get unjustly convicted).
In case I have failed to adequately make my point, once again, disagreement=/=hate. People who hate necessarily disagree, but it does not necessarily work that people who disagree must also hate.
I will also point out that liberty ultimately defaults to the right to be wrong (in the opinion of the beholder).
That last part was'nt intended as code for the GOP was it? Just curious. I mean, if it was'nt then you could've just ended the post with "Personal Protection"Recreational Shooting
Personal Protection
Because millions of fundamentalist, racist, homophobic lunatics own them, and that scares the hell out of me.
while looking down the barrel he asked the following "why would you want to own this" ...so why do we own guns?