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Originally Posted by rhoffman@hot.rr.com (Too long to be quoted responsibly) |
I'll, at least partially, agree to a few points here.
First, yes both sides have their extremists and full-on whackjobs. On one side, you have groups blowing up health clinics that provide abortion, lynching those of other races/lifestyles/religions. On the other side, you have groups blowing up clothing stores that sell real-fur clothing, or turning logging equipment into jumbo-sized car bombs. Furthermore, power hungry f**ks are still power hungry f**ks if they call themselves Liberal, Conservative, or Joe.
Second, yes there is a higher percentage of Liberals that fear guns than Conservatives. My mother is a prime example of this. When I was a kid, I got grounded for 2 weeks because I convinced my dad to buy me a "realistic" looking CO2 BB pistol. I'd had my "lever-action" Red Ryder BB rifle for a while. The reason I got "in trouble" with my mom was because the pistol looked like a "real" gun and a cop might shoot me. The Red Ryder was "OK" because you don't really see many people mugging 7-11's with a "cowboy-style" lever-action rifle. She has some issues with general logic some times.
The third point I'll agree with is that our society in general, on both sides of the isle, are waaay too concerned with trying to protect everybody (and everything). I know there have been several cases won by criminals who injured themselves, by their own actions, breaking into a house and then sued the house owners for "Wrongful Injury". I know there was a case in my semi-local area. A criminal punched out a glass window to break into a house that was owned by somebody on vacation. By breaking the window with his bare hand, he managed to sever an artery in his wrist and had to be hospitalized. He won the case suing the owner for medical bills and "pain and suffering" roughly 10 times the cost of the med bills and/or the value of the crap he could have manged to steal from the house. Who knows how many cases have been won by muggers/burglers/murderers that get shot/stabbed/blugeoned by their law-abiding victims. But I digress. Our society is paralyzed by our need to "protect" everybody/everything. I won't even go over protecting our furry (and tasty) friends of the forest, as we can all pretty much agree on that. Many are compelled to protect "kids" (anybody under the age of 18) from the dangers and sins of the human body in its natural form (nude). Or what about "It's ok for a 'kid' to watch a psychopath rip out somebody's intestines and strangle thier victim with said intestines, but seeing two (or more) people making love will damage them"? What a hypocritical load of ****. Speaking of things we have lost due "protecting" against natural selection, does anybody else remember
JARTS?