Barack Obama, "Greatest Gun Salesman in America"

[Straw Man]

92. Once again, you miss the point. By a mile.

Prove it. You're telling me that baseball, hockey, football, and basketball is the same as hunting and soldiering? C'mon.

No, and neither is target shooting. They all derive from them. Got it?

Baseball bats derived from clubs. Team sports based on manipulating balls or other objects derive from the practice of grabbing various kinds of loot from other tribes. The sport of polo, for example, is derived from the Afghan sport of buzkashi, which involves teams of men on horseback vying for possession of a calf carcass.

The parallels between football and pre-firearm infantry combat are too obvious to bear enumerating. Do we even need to talk about rugby?

Your suppose sense of "zen-like experience" in relation to "precision rifle shooting" is culturally ingrained nonsense unrelated to a sense of pure pleasure - rather it is a product of indoctrination.

In a word, crap. You have perhaps heard of Zen in the Art of Archery? It's the same principle. Is that also a product of "indoctrination"?

That is a sickness of mind, a love of violence expressed nominally as pleasure when it really is fetishism.

Well, I guess your extremism is pretty much out in the open now, right? Anyone who has anything to do with guns is a sick fetishist in your estimation. Does that about sum it up?