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malaise

(297,921 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 09:42 PM Nov 2015

I don't get how people who have no problem with little children being killed

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by gun nuts are so afraid of dying. This irrational fear is unbearable. I've turned them off.

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I don't get how people who have no problem with little children being killed (Original Post) malaise Nov 2015 OP
I know. The cognitive dissonance blows my mind. I just can't stand it anymore. nt adigal Nov 2015 #1
They live in a lesser world, one that is black and white and without any color. Rex Nov 2015 #2
By and large, gunz are revered by racists and bigots. Muslims are just the boogie man to them. Hoyt Nov 2015 #3
Locking. Sissyk Nov 2015 #4
 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
1. I know. The cognitive dissonance blows my mind. I just can't stand it anymore. nt
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 09:51 PM
Nov 2015
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. They live in a lesser world, one that is black and white and without any color.
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 10:01 PM
Nov 2015

I would place their existence/awareness level somewhere around a roving CHUD. Pity them like you would some dumb creature stuck in the mud and just getting deeper and deeper as they thrash with rage.

Thankfully they are not going to evolve with the rest of us and will phase themselves out.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. By and large, gunz are revered by racists and bigots. Muslims are just the boogie man to them.
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 10:03 PM
Nov 2015

Kids being shot are just the price we have to pay for them to have more and more gunz to assuage their fear of the boogie man.

Sissyk

(12,665 posts)
4. Locking.
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 12:22 AM
Nov 2015

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