Monkey Reflections: September 2016

Saturday, September 17, 2016

How to smash the gun lobby

I was on yahoo and this article poped up. "How to smash the gun lobby."

Well snowflake lets see what you have to say.

"Twelve people are shot in Chicago every day on average. The victims enter the rolls of the city's more than 500 homicides (the overwhelming majority of them shooting deaths), thousands of injuries, and vast webs of families and communities shattered by gun violence in 2016 alone."

Alright, starting off with statistics. Not too bad. Lets see where you go with this.

"I think a lot about Chicago's guns because I live next door; the country thinks a lot about them because "Chicago" has become shorthand for a kind of context-less chaos we fear lies just beyond our front step (where "our" means [mostly] white, middle-class news consumers).

Here we go. What she doesn't say is the vast majority of the shooting victims in Chicago are poor black males. Her statement about "white middle class news consumers" I assume was written to invoke feelings of white guilt for not doing more to prevent blacks from hurting each other.

"Furthermore, it's easier to wring our hands over Chicago than it is to grapple with the much larger, national truth: Even with its growing homicide rate, the city represents a small percentage of America's 33,000 annual firearms deaths — nearly two-thirds of which are neither mass shootings nor individual crimes but, in fact, suicides. Thirty-three thousand is about the same number of people who live in Bozeman, Montana; three times the population of Sedona, Arizona; 10 times the population of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Every year — every single year — we accept the violent deaths of an entire town's worth of Americans. Why?"

We also get another appeal to emotion over the number of suicide by gun deaths in the U.S. Well snowflake I hate to tell you this. if we rounded up every single gun in the U.S., people would still kill themselves. Gun don't cause people to kill themselves. They are the regarded as easiest and most painless way to do it.

"And don't tell me it's the Second Amendment. The Constitution is and was always intended to be a living document — you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, the three-fifths clause is null and void, and the 21st Amendment is as real as the one it repealed."

Yes, prohibition was repealed. Yes, the Constitution was amended. What we have here is an irrelevant comparison. Consuming alcohol is not the same thing as the right to self defense. Consuming alcohol is not the same thing as owning a tool that is intended to protect the other freedoms found in the Bill of Right. Sorry princess, try again.

"Poverty, racism, unchecked crime, and a pervasive culture of toxic masculinity all play key roles in the deadly churn; improved mental health services would surely save many potential suicide victims.

There's that term, "toxic masculinity" This term is applied by feminists to anything men do that they want to shame men from doing anymore. In other words, they want stop men from being men.

But the foundation upon which our annual slaughter rests is one simple fact: The gun industry is exactly that — an industry. Gun manufacturers don't make up some kind of Second Amendment honor guard. They are businesses that profit handsomely from the fear and bloody mayhem that they promote and facilitate. People make bank off dead Americans."

Ah the red herring. Capitalism bad. Listen snowflake, The only reason you are able to write the garbage and have it published for the world to laugh at is because of capitalism.

There's not much of the article left but I'm not going to do anything with it. The whole point of the article is to blame guns for the large number of suicides by gun in the U.S. This moron, the author, doesn't address the root cause of what causes people to commit suicide. She tries by blaming poverty, crime and men. Ok, lets dig deeper. What causes poverty and crime? Well lots of things like having a stagnant economy and low work force participation. Want people to feel better about themselves, feel like they have a purpose, and stop resorting to crime to be able to live? They need to have a job to feel those things. What in your article did you come up with to help get the economy back on track and get people back to work? Nothing. Let me guess, you didn't take any economics classes in college?

I'm done. I could write an entire research paper on the lack of critical thinking demonstrated by this special snowflake.