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In reply to the discussion: Dear pedantic shits saying it's a Sig Sauer MCX, not an AR-15, and not an assault rifle: FUCK YOU [View all]King_Klonopin
(1,308 posts)Straining out the gnat and swallowing the camel, I always say.
I love your analogy referring to alcoholism and drunk driving laws !!
I lost my shit with someone at work yesterday. She seemed disappointed
when the motive behind the shooting was revealed to be psychological in
nature and something other than "Muslim". She has been brainwashed into
believing "Muslim" causes the motive to mass-murder.
Muslim or not, you have to be pretty fucking disturbed to do what he and
all the other mass-murderers have done. You pointed to the root of the problem
quite succinctly.
Whether it is done in the name of "Radical Islam" or the burning cross of the KKK,
it's all done by the same animal: a hate-filled murderer.
Whether you call it an assault rifle or a high-capacity weapon, it is all the same
animal: a death-machine.
The labels in and of themselves mean nothing and change nothing, and they are
meant to distract from the real issues.
If you are an Islamic militarist, or a Klansman, or a homophobe, or an antisocial,
psychopathic, angry, violent, man with a toxic sense of masculinity who glorifies
violence, then it is a short walk from having murderous thoughts to acting-out your
murderous fantasies, here in the U.S. -- too short of a walk.
It is also clear to see that the term "Radical Islam" demonizes an entire group
(of about 9 billion, no less), and this fits the very definition of bigotry.
Republicans have been trying to bully Obama into saying "Radical Islam" because,
as I see it, they want to force him to condemn and "turn on his own kind", which
is racially motivated. And to scapegoat the bad, brown people in order to take
the focus off of the pernicious culture of gun-worship.
Just say that all the brown, Islamic people are bad, Obama !