Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
You know the college edumatcated people...
They're out there and gunning for ya!!
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The Uneducated Anti-Assault Rifle Warriors. Yea!!!
- Thread starter Twilight Hue
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You know the college edumatcated people...
They're out there and gunning for ya!!
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."
-- Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin'.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
I bet they know guns kill people and they watch "The Big Bang Theory."
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Knowing that 191 innocent people died from multiple mass shootings involving AR15 style rifles since 2012 is probably more important than knowing the difference between a clip and a magazine.
But complete ignorance of the subject makes it much easier to demonize the
weapons, whip up hysteria, call for banning, & utterly avoid real solutions.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Personally, I just want more sensible, stringent, and thorough regulations, restrictions, and requirements. I'm not suggesting that anything be banned. Is that hysteria rather than a solution? People on the left consider me a "gun nut" because I support the 2nd amendment (although I don't own any guns myself), and people on the right consider me a "gun grabber" because I think guns (especially bullet hoses like the AR15) should be a bit harder to obtain than candy bars.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I know plenty of strong gun owners/advocates who misuse terms like clip/magazine and assault riffle. Knowing such details really isn't even what the debates are about.
Done!
I work at a community college and one of the professors told me that she had 7 students march in a protest for tighter gun legislation. When she asked them a few questions about our state regulations, they couldn't answer any of them! It is important to protest so long as you know what, specifically, you are protesting for.
Akivah
Well-Known Member
College students don't seem to bother with such details anymore. It seems like they protest just to make selfies.
Guns fire bullets that kill or maim living things, including people. There are no easily available ways to stop a bullet fired at you.
That is sufficient knowledge.
These morons make me want to pull my hair out. It's no wonder they're derided by the pro-gun crowd. They don't have the faintest idea what they're talking about. They're entirely ignorant of the weapon they're so opinionated about. Their opinions should be dismissed out-of-hand.
Sufficient for what? What's your point?
I think if you know that the availability of firearms in a society positively correlates with mass shootings, you're way ahead of anyone who knows the standard cartridge for an AR-15 but can be no more convinced of any science surrounding the gun issue than a creationist can be convinced of evolution*.
*Note: I am not arguing for banning firearms.
I might not be the brightest bulb on the planet, Nowhere Man, but I'm smart enough to know how unreliable your video is most likely to be. That notion that the video represents all -- or even a majority of college kids -- is quite likely to be ridiculous. I cannot be certain why you picked that video and tried to fob it off as representative of "college edumatcated people", but what seem to me the top three most likely reasons do not any of them reflect well on you.
Sufficient for activism that pressurizes the politicians to enact stricter gun laws aimed at keeping guns out of hands of people who are at risk of using them on people or on themselves.
Do you think those 7 students gave up their right to petition the government because they didn't know the relevant state regulations?
In a larger sense, how much do they need to know before they should have a right to petition their government?
You don't need to know the laws to protest the fact that the current laws have proved inadequate in quelling the rising incidence of mass shootings and to demand that lawmakers craft better an more effective laws.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of it is more "virtue signaling" than it is a sincere effort to influence change. Simply chanting and waving a sign is just as effective as "thoughts and prayers".