Gunfighter Nation

This week on Moyers & Company, one year after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, Bill speaks with cultural historian Richard Slotkin about the role of firearms in America's national psyche.

[@JB-uv4hm]

The Legacy of Conquest.

[@charold3]

Good lord. Only 4K views and 48 likes, as of today. Maybe others watched through the Moyers site. Meanwhile, how many thousands or millions watch lame-brain segments by Hannity and the like? (“Them thar’s real Americans!”)

[@bobthebuilder914]

Hiller vs. DC from 2008.

[@Tsnore]

The 2nd Amendment is a modern day Achilles Heel in the American justice system and an embarrassing social blight. Taken as an intractable right and divorced from its 18th century "Militia" context by SCOTUS, it appears as detached anthropologists can see cultures - an inability to self-correct - and hence, a self-sentencing to strife if not collapse. Many countries that are quite safe when it comes to gun violence (Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, South Korea) have sensible laws governing the ownership and use of firearms. Rifles for hunting are usually allowed as are pistols for home protection/collection, but repeaters and enormous magazines are not permitted, just as grenades and bazookas and tanks are of course forbidden. The UK and Australia are proof positive that gun regulations work. Simply compare the gun carnage statistics before and after. This speaker is sensible when he says why wouldn't you want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, potentially violent people (proven by records of such), and the insane and disturbed, and why wouldn't you want rules about safe storage, licensing, and use? This gun-nut notion of a slippery slope to massive government regulation (by reinterpreting the 2nd Amendment for the 21st century) and a looming seizure of firearms is as absurd as the notion that bullets protect you from a mythical evil government (of black helicopters?) out to take away your rights and freedom. Being unable to walk around your premier cities after dark in general and through numerous neighborhoods any time of day actually belie a lack of freedom. And that is not to mention the encroachment on freedom of having cops search school children and mall visitors or anywhere citizens are being subjected to scanners and the fear of active shooters in public and private locations (a psychological lack of freedom). Every time there is a mass shooting, actually 2-3 per day in the USA, I have little defense when people here (Asia) ask me what's wrong with America.

[@ken1139]

---When people ask you, tell them the truth. ---Or, maybe you didn't notice. The "mass shootings" are fake - they are staged events. Each one has been targeted at a specific demographic group to enlist support for the political agenda (AZ=congress, CT=school children/parents, CA=elderly/disabled, SC=blacks, FL=gays, etc.) ---Have you ever noticed that these events increase by more than ten-fold when the Demonrats are in power? ---Study history - specifically "Operation Gladio", the "strategy of tension" and the KZbin video "NATO's Secret Army". These events are nothing new. The US Government has used this tactic for 200 years. ---Fortunately, they failed this time. In fact, the tactic backfired completely. Very few people were fooled into compliance. Most reacted logically by providing for their own self defense. The government will NEVER protect you, and disarming in the face of such corruption and treachery is unthinkable. ---We'll keep our rights, thanks.

[@spiffinz]

Tsnore typical leftist, brain eaten away by cultural marxism

[@JohnPaul-ve4pg]

Ken1139 is a sick dude. Wonder if he was at the capital attack.

[@JB-uv4hm]

@@ken1139don’t bleed out on the couch..