Friday, February 23, 2018

The Left's obsession with your guns

The left has their act down. Honed over decades. They want the 2nd Amendment reversed and they're not going to stop until they get it. Each gun related incident is their opportunity to advance their position. Their power to do this is emotion. So each incident the emotion is escalated to deafening levels and coverage that is total. Their single answer is give us your guns. They'll settle for this takeover in increments.

The right has its act down too. Dealing with this gun-grabbing obsession for decades. They know this political gamesmanship top to bottom through and through. Just as the left is locked and loaded, they too are prepared to immediately dig into every single element surrounding the incidents and expose the entire environment that allows such catastrophes to happen. They've heard their one time AG say "never let a catastrophe go to waste" and they respond.

Today Oregon Muse summarizes. Parkland shooter was known to local police, known to the FBI, known to teachers and school administrators, who all did nothing. The armed guard at the school allowed six minutes of shooting as he cowered outside the building. At every level of government top to bottom, law enforcement, schools, public services all failed to do their jobs, and still the answer is clamp down on guns. Not a single one of them accepts the responsibility of their own jobs.

The left insists on a national conversation but shaped and directed by them to drive their gun grabbing agenda under the wording of sensible laws. They are not capable of discussing their own policy and behavioral failures. Compare national conversations between CNN scripted version and Trump's own of actual listening.

Yesterday Tucker Carlson tried to interview Florida state Senator Gary Farmer specifically about this stacked failure, but Farmer's idea of government failure is its failure to successfully clamp down on guns. While filibustering his own script, the single thing he can discuss and with no variation, he actually says, "you're not listening, Tucker, that why you have two ears and one mouth." As usual, guilty of the thing he is charging. Tucker is trying to get him to respond to known government failures at several local points of responsibility and national level of FBI, but Farmer cannot even hear that. Farmer cannot allow that to be discussed, so he bathers and accuses Tucker of interrupting his filibustering.

If you're not on blood pressure medication, I recommend these three short videos. This is what you're in for if you're interested in engaging conversation. Better, I think, to just beat them to death electorally until they can face the futility of exercising their obsession, their manipulation of traumatized young people, and their emotion-based methods to eliminate your Constitutionally protected rights. There really is no point in talking.

Tucker Carlson attempts to interview Gary Farmer.

Disclosure: I don't own any guns and I don't want any. All of the gun owners I know are Democrats. In their view they are being reasonable. They're not interested in busting a move Constitutionally protected rights. They just don't see a point in allowing such fierce weapons. They would disagree with this characterization.

I don't understand Trump. I acknowledge he's more clever than I am. He's offering to make bump stocks illegal and raise the age for allowing gun ownership. I wouldn't budge an inch. He says that he's willing to accept those restrictions while also hardening soft target schools. Maybe he knows the restrictions will not pass Congress. Maybe this is his art of the deal. I don't know, but he sure is fascinating to watch. His listening session was real. He had his own handwritten list of points he wanted to be sure to make, including, "I hear you" while he had no idea what his invited guests would say. And it was heart wrenching. For some reason, he wanted his list shown. He showed his card. He knows what his opposition will do with whatever they see. CNN's contrived Town Hall was scripted, and they used the children for maximum emotion and for national indoctrination. They do know how to put on a show. But so does Trump. And Trump does it better. CNN's show works only for CNN viewers. Trump's show works for every reasonable viewer. Trump's audience grows while CNN's audience diminishes.


11 comments:

Amartel said...

I think an aide gave him that list. He never read from it nor did any of the words and phrases on the list make their way into his comments during the session. The list is a big deal on MSM chatterboxes because they want to create the stigma that Trump is scripted. HAHAHAHHAA. From the people who brought you the scripted Town Hall witch trials and TOTUS. Suddenly notes are bad. From the people who read from the same blame-the-gun/NRA script every time there's a shooting. Every time. As an attorney, I use notes all the time because I'm a visual learner and I like to assemble all the themes and points I need to make and look at them and think about them before I get up and start talking. They're not a "script". The MSM Bad-Republican-Reads-From-Script meme is a script, and although it worked with Bush I it's not going to work with Trump because no one really believes he's scripted. Unlike the MSM which keeps running the same script over and over and over.

Amartel said...

Do you think the average gun grabber actually understands why they're "obsessed with your guns?" I don't. I think they have some vague notion that guns kill people and must be stopped but that that's as deep as it goes. It's pure programming at this point. I think the obsession is not really about your guns but about their pride. Quintuple down on stupid exploitation, lefties, your credibility is on the line!

The Dude said...

One jerkwad "friend" suggested that "We just take a break for a year, lock up all guns, see what happens". The irony, of course, is that this dimbulb lives in Gettysburg, PA. Might she have suggested that all Y*nkees lock up all their guns in early July, 1863? She is truly a stupid woman.

And good luck "locking up all guns". Try that shit on the south side of Chicago and see how long you last.

For the record, YTD, 323 shot in Chicago, 62 killed. So far. So what is that, more than three times the number killed in Coward county FLA? Where are the teary protests about that crap?

I'm Full of Soup said...

I am convinced most liberals are uninformed about almost everything except getting elected. Their promises are great help in getting them elected to gain more and more political power. When they have political power, they almost never fix anything- most of their programs are YUGE failures yet they continue to support unqualified candidates like our last A.A. president [AA stands for affirmative action] who was the most unqualified president we have ever had. Obama was not qualified to run a one-store Rita's Water Ice.

edutcher said...

The eminent Mr Surber made a point that, when I read it, realized people don't think much about.

We've had gun control for over 50 years, ever since Jack Kennedy got shot. Has it made things better? The US of A in '63 (19, that is) was a pretty civilized place. Then the Lefties took over.

I don't understand Trump. I acknowledge he's more clever than I am. He's offering to make bump stocks illegal and raise the age for allowing gun ownership. I wouldn't budge an inch. He says that he's willing to accept those restrictions while also hardening soft target schools. Maybe he knows the restrictions will not pass Congress.

Exactly, Trump is a great one for setting little traps. I'll give you something, but you have to give me something in return.

DACA? Dead in the water, but the Wall is now going up outside San Deego.

Same here.

Sixty Grit said...

One jerkwad "friend" suggested that "We just take a break for a year, lock up all guns, see what happens". The irony, of course, is that this dimbulb lives in Gettysburg, PA.

Don't say that about Gettysburg. Middle of Amish Country. Don't get more Conservative.

For the record, YTD, 323 shot in Chicago, 62 killed. So far. So what is that, more than three times the number killed in Coward county FLA? Where are the teary protests about that crap?

You don't get it. Blacks can kill black, Nips can kill Chinks by the million. Lefties don't care. The murder rate in Chiraq is just keeping a lid on the hoi and the polloi. Mexico sends its troublemakers North. We let ours kill each other.

Only when white people are involved do the Lefties care (although I doubt it ever enters their pointy little heads they might be on the receiving end some day). Then they can make a race thing out of it (white Hispanic and Saint Skittles) or a power thing.

Amartel said...

Do you think the average gun grabber actually understands why they're "obsessed with your guns?"

They understand nothing. They absorb what they're told to think through all the "think pieces" in the Gray Lady and the Atlantic. Then, of course, they'll claim to be "right-thinking people" and go around saying Conservatives get their daily dose from Rush.

The Left is about emotion, not reason. Same-sex was ghastly to them until some Democrat strategist realized urban homosexuals bloc vote. Suddenly, it's a civil right.

Amartel said...

"We've had gun control for over 50 years, ever since Jack Kennedy got shot. Has it made things better? The US of A in '63 (19, that is) was a pretty civilized place. Then the Lefties took over."

The scripted progressive answer is always: MORE. More money (to support delusional policies), more time (for delusional policies to work), more control. Moremoremore.

Amartel said...

The TV person who is telling you that Trump is scripted is LITERALLY reading from a script. Also figuratively. Both at the same time. Now that's programming!

ricpic said...

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The "shall not be infringed" part is clear. And absolute. Barring another amendment revoking or limiting "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."

In my layman's understanding, any infringement, such as "you can bear arms but not AR-15's, " whether that were to be attempted by Executive Order or by congressional legislation would immediately be challenged and ruled unconstitutional, given the clarity of "shall not be infringed."

I suppose liberals could argue that since the United States now has a huge Army "a well regulated militia" already exists guaranteeing "the security of a free State," thereby rendering pointless "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."

The kicker is "free."

edutcher said...

IIRC All adult males are part of the militia, so we have a right to be armed. And, at a mere 10 divisions, the Army isn't that huge (at the end of WWII, George Marshall wanted Universal Military Training on the Swiss model).

And, at age 70, Trump is just being smart by having bullet points written down.

Amartel said...

BULLET points?
#triggered

Chip Ahoy said...

I just now invented an egg roll. It's nigirisushi but omelet egg instead of rice. Filling is avocado drenched in lime with cucumber. American horseradish.

And it's uckingfay eliciousday.

Especially with its sauce. I could eat a dozen eggs worth. With 2 avocados and 2 cucumbers. That's how good it is.

The sauce sounds horrible but it's actually sweet and charming and addictive. It makes you want to dip everything in it. (I just now thought of something really rude, but that's the teenager in me that refuses to grow up. In a group of males I would say it. And it would get a laugh.)

toasted sesame seed oil (horrible)
fish sauce (horrible)
mirin (sweet)
rice vinegar (tart / sweet)
soy sauce (salty)

Together, boom, beautiful.