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A Response to the Liberal Minded Mentality Regarding Gun Control

by steve on May 3rd, 2007

I thought I would create a new blog post based on a comment I received on a different post. It was in response to whether or not we should allow kids to play with toy guns and knives. I said I didn’t have a problem with it as kids who play with toy guns don’t grow up to be killers.

I received a response from a person who obviously has a lot of anger built up inside them… one who is trying to preach peace. I will show portions of their response. Theirs is on the color block and my rebuttal is underneath.

Steve,

I ‘StumbledUpon’ this posting; rarely do I reply but this posting is so riddled with self-incrimininating and offensive material, frankly I don’t know where to start.

Remember this is my personal blog. If you don’t like it nobody is keeping you here. Remember my right to free speech.

1. Above all, there’s a deep insensitivity here - you should really have thought harder about how this might have sounded to the parents of the 32 children who were tragically ‘hunted’ down last month. Or for that matter, any parent of the 16,000 shootings that fatally kill a child (no matter how old) each year in this country.

I understand your concern for the victims who were killed at Virginia Tech. And I know all people are stunned. But if I were a parent who had a child killed just like what was done at VA, or Columbine for that matter, I would be angry at the people who made it possible for my children to not be able to defend themselves. Taking the guns out of the law abiding citizens allowed this freak to accomplish what he did. The only thing I think was wrong, is that this guy should not have been able to purchase his weapons legally based on his history. That is where the system failed.

But again, playing with toy guns doesn’t make people grow up to be killers.

2. Not only does a posting like this give Bloggers a bad rap it helps perpetuate the notion that dads are neanderthals when it comes to being responsible, thoughtful parents.

Right on brotha… First off I don’t care for the reputation of bloggers as we are all different and unique human beings and not lumped under one stereotype these days. Secondly for somebody to think ALL dads are not responsible parents because one blogger in the blogosphere has an opinion is their problem not mine.

3. So when exactly is a hunter not a killer? When you’re hunting to survive, when it’s desperation, or when it’s just a fun pastime to kill a defenseless animal? Judging by your video you’re above the poverty line so I have to conclude the latter. Is it God’s will for you to kill unnecessarily, I wonder?

Sure what about the butcher. If it wasn’t for the butcher we would have to hunt to survive. But since we have become a prosperous country we pay others to raise our livestock and slaughter them. Just because a person chooses to go out and get their meat these days and not purchase from the grocery store doesn’t make them any worse than the butcher so you can drive your frickin Volvo to the Supermarket (hit a couple squirrels on the way) and pick up that nice slap of meat.

To say I live above the poverty line is getting a bit personal don’t you think there Petie?? I know what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. And if you have a problem with my lifestyle don’t let that get in your way a$$hole. I shoot my own meat because it saves me money, it keeps me close to nature, it helps regulate the herds, and it bonds me to my children and family. So I don’t kill unnecessarily you uninformed waste of life. It is people like you who are killing this country so please for the sake of our great nation do us all a favor and take you and your kind and move to Europe. We don’t want you.

4. Aside from the shameful wastefulness of hunting, I fail to see the purpose / usefulness of what you’re teaching your children. Idealogically, aren’t we having children these days to create a better group of people for the future, a more rounded society, smarter, more sensitve to the world we inhabit albeit a brief occupancy. A society that is free of the quirks and flaws that hampered us and our own anticedents? Isn’t that the responsibility of being a parent - to create a better version of yourself? Isn’t it upto our children to decide if they want to live with the gun or not - letting them play with them at an earlier age is hardly creating a neutral starting point, now is it?

Hunting is not wasteful you tool. For those who choose not to hunt, they just let others raise up animals only to be slaughtered. Just because you don’t see the meat cleaver slicing through the livestock doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Hunting is not only the best way at managing our herds but it is necessary for our health. Meat products are a very important and large part of a balanced diet. Hunting for your own food or having someone else slaughter the cow is a choice. For someone who is a free thinker I am shocked to see how intolerant you are to other people’s views unless they coincide with your own.

Just because something has been around for a long time doesn’t mean it is outdated which a lot of people seem to think so. But, the gun is not going away. You can try to get rid of them but you are only taking the ability to defend one’s self away and leaving the gun in the criminal’s hand. We need to get to the root of the problem and it is not simply taking guns away.

Metaphorically take a tree as a symbol of a problem. Why spend time ripping off the leaves one by one. Once you do that the leaves will just grow back. It is because picking off the leaves only hides the problem momentarily and doesn’t really solve the problem. It would be best to cut the tree down at its roots right. I believe the root of the problem lies deeper than just guns. It is the person who picks that gun up and plans out a way to kill innocent people.

Here is a question. Do you think cars should be outlawed? In other words, should all cards be banned and people must resort to walking or the bicycle?

Cars accidents are the number one killer of all children. Guns are a small percentage.

Try to think a little harder before you go public with something like this and help the world be a better place; putting a toy gun in the hands of a child teaches them one thing. A gun is fun, it’s good to shoot and I’ll shoot whatever I like.

I have thought long and hard and I am saddened to think a person feels the way you do. Putting a toy gun in the hands of a child does nothing of what you describe. You are deceived. Kids know the difference between a toy and the real thing. We put kids in toy cars which is the number one killer of teens. We place them in fake cars even though it is illegal for them to drive. “Oh dear lord… our poor poor children will grow up to think driving cars is just fun… oh my god… we must ban all toy cars…. LOL”

So before you post stupid and moronic statements that only hurts your deceived and warped liberal view on society maybe YOU should think a little harder before you go public with them. Base your statements from fact and not from emotion and you may get a little more respect.

The End

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