Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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15. From what I have seen from some controllers, it is more about taking advantage of tragedy...

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 01:07 PM

Jul 2015

We all have the capacity to feel compassion, however filtered in mass media and on the internet. But as has been documented in these threads, some controllers explicitly advocate swooping in fast and capitalizing on a tragedy in an effort to push their agenda. The queer thing about this phenomenon, is some equate vitriole and hate toward gun-owners with compassion, and yet accuse gun-owners of having no compassion, even demanding proper displays of regret, sadness, even shame when little is exhibited by the controllers themselves.

Why would anyone publically waltz to the tune of sadness in a farcical and contrived amosphere like what was seen here after Charleston?

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If gun control really is about sympathy for the victims [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 OP

From another OP discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2015 #1

Don't see any sympathy from the gun control side for people murdered by other then a gun either Lurks Often Jul 2015 #2

And if gun control was truly about sympathy for the victims........ pablo_marmol Jul 2015 #3

Well, it would end at some point shadowrider Jul 2015 #4

"Do they only have moral value if they're raped, murdered, robbed and/or beaten?" Shamash Jul 2015 #5

While there is sympathy Matrosov Jul 2015 #6

If only you could find a reality in which that was true Shamash Jul 2015 #7

The problem is estimation Matrosov Jul 2015 #8

THe US is ranked 108th out of 218 countries for intentional homicide rates worldwide Lurks Often Jul 2015 #9

No, it is not a problem of estimation Shamash Jul 2015 #10

If "estimates" are a problem how is it that you speak with such certainty that offenses Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #11

They hate guns with a passion. MicaelS Jul 2015 #12

I can't help but recommend this, it's very true AuntPatsy Jul 2015 #13

Gun Control is about CONTROL....nothing else. ileus Jul 2015 #14

From what I have seen from some controllers, it is more about taking advantage of tragedy... Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #15