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Lots of people are exulting that Charlie Kirk did once say, "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
I've repeatedly said that freedom has warts.
Every liberty has a down side, but the upsides more than counter them.
Millions of defensive gun uses that saved someone's life more than counter the thousands of murders and suicides.
Even if all guns miraculously disappeared, there would still be murder and suicide. There would still be a need to defend oneself from murderers and thieves.
It's not the guns that are the problem.
It's the rage that's been sold since, around, 2000, that the right wing are evil.
Rage that has led to violence that was unpunished.
Outright encouragement of violence against "fascists" was the norm.
Antifa and Black Lives Matter destroyed how much property? Injured or killed how many people?
Yet, only the right saw any real punishment. Isn't it amazing how they found everyone who entered the capitol building on January 6, but we can't find arsonists in any of the various places that Antifa rioted in?
It's not guns that told them to go do evil and assured them they would not be punished.
It's not guns that provided bail money and delivered bricks on pallets near where these violent protests would occur.
It's not guns.
It's also not the right that's been murdering people.
I, for one, am sick of being blamed for things I didn't do.
I am sick of being punished for things that other people did.
That's against the entire concept of individual liberty that this nation was founded upon!
Virtually all political violence comes from the left. In the few instances where it doesn't the media over-covers, editorializes, demonizes all on the right. And when it is found that perpetrators of political violence are liberals as mostly happens, then suddenly the media downplays or outright drops it.
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Don't forget the number of times they actually cheer on the violence, like the number of leftist commentators that openly celebrated killing Charlie. I only heard of one being fired for that.
DeleteThe news media is manned (and womaned, and trannied) almost top-to-bottom by people who think Hubert Humphrey was too far to the right. Those who disagree keep their heads well below the parapet. "Newsroom culture" dictates that some stories are extremely newsworthy and some are to be spiked. I've long since learned to take anything the news media says about any subject where they've got an emotional investment with a shaker or six of salt.
DeleteThe anti-white, anti-male, anti-married, anti-right rage has been around since Clinton. Remember all the tv shows where the big evil was white married male conservatives? Yes, it got worse after 2000.
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