Leftists attack guns not root of hate.

K

Keiller TN

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I have grown to expect the 2nd Amendment to be attacked every time we have another shooting. Why isn't the 1st Amendment attacked with the same fervor? If the 2nd Amendment were the cause of all these deaths, then the 1st would be even more so. It is the wrong thoughts that feed the desire to murder. A lot of violence comes from the intertainment industry, but I don't see Clinton attacking them every time we have another shooting. Of course Hollywood is a big source of funds for the leftists. Maybe it is not about the children after all.
 
some actors say that movies are where people go to fantasize and would never think about trying doing what they saw on the big screen. That is how they can support the ban on guns but use them in their movies.
 
I think Jesus has something instructive that would apply to this issue: "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matthew 15:18, 19 NKJB) Bad things come from within man, not what is in his hand. Many think that if we just changed the environment, that all the evil would go away. We have met the problem and the problem is us.

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While one may think he knows what's best for me, I still believe that I should be held accountable for my own actions, and be man enough to face that truth when confronted with an err in my judgement. That said, I further believe that I should be given the choice to decide what is best for me, not a person(s) who hasn't a clue of my lifestyle, or my surroundings, or my tribulations through life.

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That reminds me of the movie "2001:A Space Oddysey", by Stanley Kubrick.
And the scene where the Neo-man takes the stick, and uses it as a weapon.
Is the stick an evil thingnow, simply because it's going to be used with deadly intent.
At what point in time does it transform from an evil entity, to one of safety, and warmth? When it's used to make crude huts, and provide fuel for fire, when it's used to hold the carrion for cooking.
When the Neo-man uses shaped stones to enhance his weapons, does the stone now become evil as well, by virtue it provides more effecient manner to dispatch animals, or enemies?

Best Regards,
Don


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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
The first amendment is under as much of an attack as the 2nd, but the goals and methods are not the same. Those in power want to control and use the media for their own purposes, not destroy it. They put a tremendous effort in this direction.
 
I agree the First is under constant attack as well. The 'problem' is that a gun crime has a specific firearm to 'blame' and demonize. An 'AK-47', a 'semiautomatic', an 'assault weapon', etc.

However, when a crime is committed, there is not usually a specific movie or book to blame. I will note that there have been some specific instances where criminals have indicated they were influenced by a specific film, book or piece of music. And, in those cases, it is not uncommon for the 'anti's' to attack the distributor of that work.

Regards from AZ
 
The first amendment not under atack?!? Well let's see, the Parent's Music Resource Center? Tipper Gore's project, I do believe.

The freedom of spech is the freedom to say what is unpopular, against the grain, not nice, what you hate to hear. The Freedom of the press is the freedom to print and publish what you don't want to see. The same people who go after Marylin Manson's songs and Christie Hefner's magazine are the same people who want to ban your guns.
 
G50AE, I am not advocating attacking the the 1st. I simply think there is a double standard. I think the 2nd Amendment is so heavily under attack because some in high places are uncomfortable with the peasants being armed. If the politicians really were concerned about "the children," they could more easily justify attacking the 1st Amendment rights of the intertainment media, because ideas are the origin of actions. Metal is not the origin of murder.
 
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