Comments on: Emptying My Notebooks: Thought Fragments on Mass Homicides

By: Jack Darkes

Jack Darkes — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:47:04 +0000

It is interesting that there is a long list of rights that “liberals” want protected, but they work to deny those that others value. I might even say, to react to your earlier post about defending rights, by force if necessary, that it seems a rather exclusive approach to 2A rights. Personal choice is an expansive concept. That is, those who might, at some point want them banned, see their necessity when they want to defend what they envision as THEIR personal rights, when THEIR personal concerns or safety are paramount.

It would be more accurate to say that “We have a violence” problem and some violence is done with guns, but it is also done by other means. In countries with severe restrictions, violence still occurs with the tools available (and sometimes “illegal” firearms). As recent events show, they happen here with alternatives, as well. Thus, violence is the problem and the focus on guns is the favored position of those who do not want them. Attempting to solve violence that involves firearms by restricting them is admitting that we have no idea or inclination to curtail violent actors in our culture, so we must create a society that limits their tools. It is too difficult to dispassionately evaluate our culture, to look at the individual predictors of violence, for people to do so willingly….when they can simply blame something or someone else. We need a more in-depth evaluation causes, beyond means.

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By: Zendo Deb

Zendo Deb — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:56:18 +0000

On the assault weapon bans… “Why does anyone need an AR-15?”

Why did Rosa Parks need to sit in the front of the bus?

If you talk to all too many people on the Left today, they will have trouble answering the question “Why do you need free speech?” (I’m old enough to remember when the Left was all about free speech, free expression, etc.) But then I lived suburban Chicago in the late 1970s when a certain political group tried to march through Skokie, Illinois – which is how that same questionable political group ended up being lampooned in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980)

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By: Zendo Deb

Zendo Deb — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:47:34 +0000

On the subject of mass murder… For a long time the most deadly incident in the US had been by way of arson and the Happy Land Fire, which had been accomplished with $1 worth of gasoline in 1990.

Then there are all of the examples of SUVs and Trucks and vehicles generally

From New Orleans in 2025, and Germany in 2024 (the Christmas market attack) to Zhuhai, Guangdong, China also in 2024 to Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021.

As far as I can tell, no one (except some extreme green activists) want to outlaw gasoline or private vehicles.

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