Video: “Gun nuts have many good points”

He went to say that “our fascination with the Second Amendment just looks like masochistic stupidity.”

Did he say the same thing about our fascination with ANOTHER Constitutional Right, say that of Speech or Press?

Or abortion?

Anti-gunners always like to use words like ‘fascination’ or ‘obsession’ when talking about American gun rights. When I hear those words, what they tell me is that they don’t understand gun owners and have no wish to do so, they are too foreign to comprehend their thought processes. Which is funny when you think that liberals believe they have a superior ability to understand other cultures and peoples, yet don’t even want to try to understand their next-door neighbor if his house contains a gun safe. Very tolerant of them.

For those exceptions, it’s about self-defense: Do we have a right to it or not? If not, then our continued existence is left to the mercy of criminals, since the government that disarms us denies that it can be held responsible for failing to protect us. To exercise self-defense we need the tools to effectively do so, just like freedom of speech needs printing presses. The government doesn’t get to decide what kind of printing press you “need” to fulfill your right, and the politicians and pundits debating this or that type of firearm are in no position to determine what kind of gun you “need” to protect yourself. Certainly the debate about whether or not to throw people in jail because their rifle’s grip goes down instead of down-and-back doesn’t inspire us with their superior insight into an individual’s potential risks and responses.

So if you want to say I’m “fascinated” with my continued existence and what I can do to increase the odds of that happening, then I guess my question is: And you’re not?

Socratease on February 2, 2013 at 10:51 PM