'Insane Claim': Conservatives Call Out DHS Second Amendment Hypocrisy -- Amid Claims Man Shot and Killed Was

[paleotn]

8. The average gun owning, 2nd Amendment guy....

isn't necessarily a deep magat. Or a magat at all. That's a mischaracterization built upon the quirks of human thinking.

We tend to think in two incorrect ways. Everyone is like us or like them (magats), in group / out group. And everyone must fit into the discrete boxes we've created. It's natural for humans to think that way, I do it myself all the time, and is for the most part inaccurate. Outside of some physical properties, the world really doesn't work that way and neither do humans.

The world is a continuum as are most American's thoughts and ideas. Sometimes varying bell shapes along that continuum, sometimes not, but always shifting and changing as current events and long term trends mold attitudes. That's why we're often surprised when someone holds a certain belief we don't expect. Our expectations are based on the inaccurate way humans see the world.

I think we'll be surprised at who are friends are after this latest atrocity and who aren't.