I know people in Chicago are shot every day but I read about one a while back of a young girl that was sitting on her front porch and was shot by a thug driving past the house aiming to shoot at the windows of the house next door to hers. He died a few hours later in the hospital. No one, not a single person, protested that particular act of violence. But they do protest when a black guy with a criminal record that defies police after being tackled and tasered, reportedly with a knife in hand, and then tries to get in his car for unknown reasons is shot by police. I'm not saying the second one is okay. But the first one happens more often. And no one protests.
Jezz.......the pages of this thread are depressing to read..... Your Country is Fucked.......time for a Change.
The reason we need legalized guns is to protect us from our government. As long as we have asshole liberals in this country who want to destroy our rights and make this a communist country we need an arsenal of weapons. I personally don’t own a gun and have never shot one, but I truly believe it is the only thing that keeps us free in America
Yeah....because it's not like there are free countries in the world where there aren't 3 guns for every 1 person, right? I've asked this question of someone else in another thread.....but what rights have liberals taken from you?
Good example of how media on each side omit or manipulate information in order to suit their preferred narrative.
It's interesting to see this laid out like this blang. Also, it's pretty horrifying to see how easy it is to manipulate the public just by omitting or adding a few words to a story. It's as if media-writers have God-complexes.
So you rely on a ton of people you don't know to own and use guns and give you your freedom? You think that's where your personal freedom comes from....strangers with guns?
Oddly, social media may be the best tool to hold the media's collective feet to the fire and force them to start reporting the truth. The difficult part of that is removing any and all bias off of those platforms when it comes to punishment over opinion while also retaining the ability to remove accounts that destroy the conversation and create avenues for hate. Speaking from first hand experience - It ain't easy to navigate those waters... I think legalization for certain substances probably should, and will, happen but we also are learning so much more about what kind of issues arise from unfettered use of these substances. Just in the past 18 months reports about how marijuana can be extremely damaging to nervous, vascular, optical and cranial systems when it is made easily and constantly available. Moderation is something that we may need to look into considering the long term affects it could have on society. We're breaking new ground on it everyday so there needs to be an open mind from both sides of the legalization argument. As for my personal opinion on cooling people the fuck out - Get everyone moving. Working out is easily one of the best remedies for mental instability and aggression. If killing the heavy bag was a capital offense I'd be buried under a cell on death row, but a couple of hours of work on it daily clears my head and refocuses my attention to the more important things in life. The idiot that cuts you off in traffic bothers you less if you spent the night before practicing methods of human destruction. lol
I agree on it opening up a lot of fresh eyes. This is a conversation that I've had with many people going all the way back to the invasion of Iraq and how differently it was being reported depending on the outlet and the nation reporting it. That was the first time I watched it unfold from day to day as narratives replaced the truth on the ground. We were lied to by the government, and then lied to by the media, and they were doing it for opposite reasons so the truth (the actual truth) was never fully reported. What's worse, is that to this day both sides have clung to their narratives so depending on which side you were on to begin with the historical 'truth' of it is totally fluid. It's bullshit, and they profit off of selling it to us. You're dead on about the virtue signalling, and what's worse is that the media has opened the door for a whole industry of people that will cash in on this disgusting tactic. It has seeped into every aspect of entertainment and social media. We are know living in a world where people are more concerned with how they are perceived than what the truth of their identity is. It's the nation of the lost echoing tag lines from their chosen religion in an effort to prove their worth to people that they will never share a beer or a handshake with and, if they did, they wouldn't recognize the actual person sitting across from them because their preconceived notions based on socioeconomic status and race grievance ladders would blind them from the person they have back and forthed for maybe hours, days, or possibly fractions of a second liking a post as if it was a personal interaction.
If it wasn't for football, working out, boxing, kickboxing, running, and so on...I probably would have murdered countless people by now.
Nearly 250 years ago that statement could ring true and as loud as the liberty bell, but In the last 100 years when have we been attacked by a foreign adversary and been actually forced to use them? or when have we had to do actual battle against an oppressive government? If you think that the threat of our owning our personal weapons can stand up to our military force I have a bell I can sell you it does however have a very big crack in it.
It still remains the best solution for protecting individual rights and liberties. The only other option is to capitulate to a mob that understands the line for what they can get away with has now become fluid because they have been enabled to carry on escalating tactics for months.
I still see opportunity for people to come together but they first have to realize two things: 1. The vast majority of Americans understand the frustration minority communities have with policing and want to sincerely address them in a meaningful way. 2. The vast majority of Americans wants the un-peaceful protests to stop, harassing behavior to stop and private property protected. The groups protesting are not larger than the groups that want both 1 and 2. They're just loud and the media puts a fucking bullhorn with a filter on it to amplify a chosen message.
