But some guy in the comments (Dr. kenneth) thinks it is ok to shoot people in movie theaters. So what reason other than racism do we have for it being ok for white guys to shoot in a theater but not ok for black guys to do it, as per Dr. K? Please explain.

Through so many of these social experiments (Communists, Fascists, et. al.),we have learned that stories about good, conservative, people behaving goodly not only don’t sell, they don’t make anyone behave goodly either. And lots of good people end up in jail and suffer harsh interrogations.

You people really think that if all movies were about Jesus, everyone would act like Jesus?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/obama_and_the_lessons_of_histo.html

Yes, there are serious hunters and serious home defense types. But its entirely fallacious to claim that they compose even a majority of gun owners and/or NRA members. I know far too many overgrown juveniles who are NRA members, have never hunted in their lives, know squat about home defense, but do play with guns.

I live in the Texas panhandle, a place where one of the main recreations of choice is to get blind drunk on piss poor beer and shoot at the beer bottles. You can’t tell me that NRA members don’t play with guns, I’ve watched ‘em do it.

Scalia is a brilliant jurist, if you’re remotely interested in original intent of the founding fathers. Clarence Thomas is also a serious scholar of not only the constitution but of the Federalist Papers and other writings of the founders, as is Scalia. Libs hate jurists that do not share their belief that the constitution is a ‘living document’ from a judicial perspective. It IS a living document from the people’s perspective…hence the amendments to the original document, NOT judicial activism…from either side of the idealogical divide. ERL doesn’t seem to be well read on the actual decisions of SCOTUS or the writings and arguments of the individual justices. I’m not certain he understands the constitutional function of the Supreme Court.

Guns bring out the weird in people, unlike any other tool in civilized society. I am for outlawing screwdrivers…they have pointy ends and look scary.

Hunting, violence and cancer are all part of mankind’s history and make-up. Hunting provides food. Violence provides an outlet for anger. Cancer kills. We should celebrate hunting, but ‘we’ condemn it while whining about violence as we attempt to elevate it to ‘culture’ status. We don’t elevate cancer to culture status, but we depict deviates like Notorious BIG as heroes instead of the cancer on society that they truly are. Our society is dysfunctional, as all socialist societies have been, especially at the start of collectivism. This nation was founded on individual freedom, responsibility and accountability. Only weaklings advocate collectivism, as they are not strong enough to succeed on their own efforts and merit. They must form a herd or mob in order to establish and bolster their group esteem-they have no self esteem, which is earned, so esteem must be bestowed by the group to itself. The truly strong tend to be loners and individuals. The weak are members of herds, mobs and the democrat party.

This is why I get very angry when libs try to make me part of the “African-American Community”. This stems from their desire to be part of the “Guilty White Liberal Community”. My son was once asked why he was Catholic instead of being a member of a “Black Church”. He’d still be whipping that kid’s ass if his mother didn’t haul him out of there by his ear.

I am an American. My skin is black. Don’t project your own weakness and guilt on me. I want no part of it. I am in my middle sixties, grew up in the south during the fifties and sixties, served three tours in Viet Nam. I am an American and I love this country. I have no desire to see it destroyed to indulge the vanity of liberals, be they white, black or otherwise. If you don’t like it here, move to a country that is already a socialist haven and leave the rest of us grown ups alone.

Ugh fine.

Play (verb, used without object–first definition)

“to exercise or employ oneself in diversion, amusement, or recreation.”

How does that meaning fit the horrific instance of gun violence, particularly in urban and african american communities. How does that meaning NOT fit the recreational use of firearms to shoot, e.g, deer? If we’re gonna play the “plain meaning” game, you’ve got it exactly backwards. Context is everything.

I think this point is quite silly and trivial, but I do think it serves to illustrate the extent to which you’re disinterested in opposing viewpoints.

To refer to shooting and killing human beings as “playing” is an insult to the victims of gun violence.

And I’m not saying I want black males or anyone else to be prohibited from having guns. No double standard here, although nice try in building THAT strawman. What I want is a culture that teaches them to use those guns responsibly. The culture I grew up with taught that. The culture Bigs grew up in did not. That’s what this website is about – culture. See, like many on the left, you assume (because people tend to assume other people share their own mode of thinking) that if people on the right don’t like something, they automatically want to outlaw it. This is untrue. We’d MUCH rather have a culture which PRESSURES better behavior. It’s far less coercive and far more conducive to individual liberty, which is our touchstone.

Someone imitating the gangsta lifestyle is ABSOLUTELY playing. It’s just that they’re playing a very deadly game, and usually are too young/immature/stupid/high to understand the consequences of their sorry little game.