Stop accepting blame, stop apologizing, and stop feeling guilty

2ifbyC said:

In response to Rocket Man’s (not the Korean) image of a utopian world,

here’s one just as ludicrous:

Every individual that is captured committing a violent crime is subject to treatment called Ludovico’s Technique, a form of brainwashing that incorporates associative learning. After being injected with a substance that makes you dreadfully sick, you are forced to watch exceedingly violent movies. In this way, you come to associate violence with the nausea and headaches you experiences from the shot. Thereafter, the mere thought of violence has the power to make you ill. Ego, no more repeated evil acts. The program would be expanded for those other's believe may be thinking of committing evil.

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2ifbyC said:

In response to Rocket Man’s (not the Korean) image of a utopian world,

here’s one just as ludicrous:

Every individual that is captured committing a violent crime is subject to treatment called Ludovico’s Technique, a form of brainwashing that incorporates associative learning. After being injected with a substance that makes you dreadfully sick, you are forced to watch exceedingly violent movies. In this way, you come to associate violence with the nausea and headaches you experiences from the shot. Thereafter, the mere thought of violence has the power to make you ill. Ego, no more repeated evil acts. The program would be expanded for those other's believe may be thinking of committing evil.

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grampajack said:

I'm pretty sure that only works in A Clockwork Orange. Good book, but I don't think it would work in reality.

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Rocketmedic said:

^And that's what I mean. Gun owners are letting themselves be defined by a stubborn adherence to hard-line commitment to enabling easy mass murder with tools that are relatively disposable to society, not by hunting, sports or even the traditionally-associated tools of patriots and freedom fighters. Sure, a lot of veterans use modern weapons in combat and support gun rights- but a lot of us also don't really like Omaha Beach re-enacted on the Strip either, and we're a lot more liberal than our grandparents were.

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Sam1911 said:

As that other notable person who thinks as Rocketmedic does, said recently, "So what? ... I certainly hope so."

(That was Nancy Pelosi when asked point blank whether this bill would be a slippery slope toward banning other guns.)

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BigBore44 said:

Good point Sam. He also doesn’t understand that the 2nd was designed to protect the citizens (from the poorest to the wealthiest) from their government, not empower the only wealthy to have more because they can afford it. I mean, Stephen Paddock was a millionaire.

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Rocketmedic said:

In my perfect view, semi-automatic shoulder-fired weapons that are magazine-fed would be treated as NFA items, the registry would not reopen except to receive those weapons that already exist, and the NFA process would make them way harder to get (think a $2k tax stamp instead of $200). In exchange, semi-automatic pistols (capped at 15 rounds, because I'm a liberal) are left alone (pistols over 15 rounds would be NFA), nationwide constitutional carry and mandatory NRA Eddie-the-Eagle gun-safety training in schools for everyone, and a constitutional amendment forbidding federal, state or local gun, ammunition, accessory or property confiscation, bans or other forms of limiting access unless a clear and present imminent danger exists from a specific source and due process has been executed fairly and faithfully (say, a penalty of all of MSRP payable by the detaining authority, compounded weekly, pending a judicial decision). People could carry firearms anywhere, openly or concealed. Additionally, citizens and resident aliens could access military firing ranges as available to shoot, and states would be encouraged to form and expand state militias including gun owners to support state disaster, unrest, etc. That's my gun-control dream. Will it get guns out of the hands of criminals? No, but it will limit access to semi-automatic massacre enablers. Will it stop mass shootings? Maybe not, but it's a lot harder to kill 58 people with a lever or a bolt than an assault rifle.

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Rocketmedic said:

In my perfect view, semi-automatic shoulder-fired weapons that are magazine-fed would be treated as NFA items, the registry would not reopen except to receive those weapons that already exist, and the NFA process would make them way harder to get (think a $2k tax stamp instead of $200). In exchange, semi-automatic pistols (capped at 15 rounds, because I'm a liberal) are left alone (pistols over 15 rounds would be NFA), nationwide constitutional carry and mandatory NRA Eddie-the-Eagle gun-safety training in schools for everyone, and a constitutional amendment forbidding federal, state or local gun, ammunition, accessory or property confiscation, bans or other forms of limiting access unless a clear and present imminent danger exists from a specific source and due process has been executed fairly and faithfully (say, a penalty of all of MSRP payable by the detaining authority, compounded weekly, pending a judicial decision). People could carry firearms anywhere, openly or concealed. Additionally, citizens and resident aliens could access military firing ranges as available to shoot, and states would be encouraged to form and expand state militias including gun owners to support state disaster, unrest, etc. That's my gun-control dream. Will it get guns out of the hands of criminals? No, but it will limit access to semi-automatic massacre enablers. Will it stop mass shootings? Maybe not, but it's a lot harder to kill 58 people with a lever or a bolt than an assault rifle.

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Rocketmedic said:

If it's tyrannical to ask that we regulate access to certain particularly-lethal weapons, then I reckon I'm pro-tyranny?

When the next mass shooting occurs, with an AR-15 or other assault weapon, we'll revisit this same place, and there will be even more dead Americans sacrificed on the altar of the RKBA.

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Rocketmedic said:

If it's tyrannical to ask that we regulate access to certain particularly-lethal weapons, then I reckon I'm pro-tyranny?

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Rocketmedic said:

If it's tyrannical to ask that we regulate access to certain particularly-lethal weapons, then I reckon I'm pro-tyranny?

When the next mass shooting occurs, with an AR-15 or other assault weapon, we'll revisit this same place, and there will be even more dead Americans sacrificed on the altar of the RKBA.

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