Tag: David Yamane

False Alternatives

Gun rights! Public safety! Gun rights! Public safety! [Watch]

There’s no tension between the two. They’re both the same side. And coming closer together to “escape” only means we surrender more increments while they make disingenuous noises about easing up on things of ours that they have no claim to.

Talk about a trap.

There is no “debate.” There is truth and there is falsehood, and the latter should never be credited with equal weight or value. 

And TED Talks themselves are for herding sheep.

Not that this useful idiot and the low information dolts who would fall for this childish ploy can figure that out, which suits the evil minds encouraging this misdirection just fine.

Yamane’s “full spectrum” includes Rob Pincus as representative of the hard core gun advocacy side? Funny, how the “compromise” being lauded never questioned where in the Constitution any branch of government is delegated the power to require federal licensing of firearms dealers in the first place. The sides we’re told are opposite were simply quibbling over the degree of ingringement.

But go ahead and take “expert” gun advice from someone who just admitted to the world he pulled the trigger on a .50 cal knowing he couldn’t see his target.

Be honest, Yamane. Tell us who you voted for so we can see what you enable.

[Via Andy M]

Stay Focused

In my analysis, guns resist simple categorization as either universally good or bad, dangerous or protective, fun or frightening. Instead, they are best under-stood through a “kaleidoscopic view,”considering the issue from multiple angles. To be sure, this requires maintaining a clear-eyed understanding of the lethal capabilities of firearms. [More]

Some of us have a clear-eyed understanding that sees through fabricated distortions.

That’s why we insist on “shall not be infringed.”

And reject kaleidoscopic views of gun owners as a panacea.

[Via Andy M]

A ‘Liberal’ Approach to Guns

In contrast to the dominant scholarly approaches, which focus on gun deviance and harm, I find there is more to firearms than criminal violence, injury and death; more to gun owners than straight white men; and more to gun culture than democracy-destroying right-wing politics. [More]

If not for “straight white men” and “right-wing politics,” you wouldn’t have any guns, you fool.

I’ve written about his DEI “gun culture” before, and rather than unifying us, as he either delusionally believes or pretends to believe for an agenda, it’s a divide-and-conquer tactic, aided and abetted by Democrat-enabling trainers: Remember, with “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.

[Via Andy M]