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Anthropologist: Guns have an almost supernatural potency to change the people who possess them into
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To many, the men died because the occult forces they had been using for unethical gain had ultimately turned against them—opening them up to conflict and failing to protect them.
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So they were using dark forces to gain unfair advantage and the universe decided they should be punished. But it's the gun's fault? M'kay....
To many, the men died because the occult forces they had been using for unethical gain had ultimately turned against them—opening them up to conflict and failing to protect them.
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So they were using dark forces to gain unfair advantage and the universe decided they should be punished. But it's the gun's fault? M'kay....
Shark_Cage
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News scoop: “Cameras also steal your souls in Haiti”
Dennis in MA
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So do the Clintons.
Ok, I read the article.
The author gets close but goes all new-age layering (literally) magical powers onto the inanimate object.
The gun is a tool. It is only a tool. It allows one to extend their intent beyond their normal reach. The gun does not make one good or evil. If possessing a gun makes you evil, you were already evil but did not have the means to express it. If possessing a gun makes you a hero, you were already a hero.
This is the fundamental concept that we all understand and the antis will never understand. We see the tool for what it is and recognize that those who would do evil with a gun will do evil without a gun. We seek to end evil actions by ending the cause of the evil. End the desire to use the tools and there is no need to remove the tools. Others see the tool as the cause and seek to end evil actions by removing the tools. End the ability to use the tools and the desire remains to seek a new tool.
The author gets close but goes all new-age layering (literally) magical powers onto the inanimate object.
The gun is a tool. It is only a tool. It allows one to extend their intent beyond their normal reach. The gun does not make one good or evil. If possessing a gun makes you evil, you were already evil but did not have the means to express it. If possessing a gun makes you a hero, you were already a hero.
This is the fundamental concept that we all understand and the antis will never understand. We see the tool for what it is and recognize that those who would do evil with a gun will do evil without a gun. We seek to end evil actions by ending the cause of the evil. End the desire to use the tools and there is no need to remove the tools. Others see the tool as the cause and seek to end evil actions by removing the tools. End the ability to use the tools and the desire remains to seek a new tool.
The guy might want to venture out of Haiti and see what a non chithole country looks like.
He might soil himself if he learned there were what 30 million gun owners (I'd say that's lowballing it ) here.
No one should be left alive .
He might soil himself if he learned there were what 30 million gun owners (I'd say that's lowballing it ) here.
No one should be left alive .
Classic causation/correlation error. 3 men died, they all had owning the gun in common ergo the gun caused their deaths. That kind of thinking leads to rain dances and turning your cap inside out when your team is losing. “I got laid when I wore this shirt, therefor it’s my lucky shirt and if I wear it I’ll get laid” and you go out and you get laid - see? It’s the shirt!
MachineHead
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I guess my question would be was there a man named Nesta (Nestor?) involved in possession of said .38 at any point?
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StevieP
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This can't be true. Hillary spiffed it up with all those donations, donchaknow....
Jason Flare
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I’m not supposed to have a lucky shirt?
QFMFT
I've been to Africa and saw first hand what people there do to each other. They did a thorough yet extremely ugly job using machetes. No guns involved. Just a blade and evil, vile people. I'm sure our anthropologist has a plausible explanation. But it probably comes down to white people being the problem.
Nick Fury
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I was living in the Virgin Islands when then Senator Adelbert Bryan blamed the gun problem on “Transient White Males” yet strangely enough shot (In the back) and killed his own son a few years later...
amm5061
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Now you're catching on to how student loans work!
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A lot has to do with "every resource of the state will be used to find and punish you" vs. "no big deal, happens every day, if you insist we will take a report but that's about it". Ever hear of a 3rd world s-hole country (ok, I just disqualified myself from holding public office) investigating a case for years until it finds out who done did the deed, or keeping actual evidence on file for decades because murder cases are never really closed?
