Seeing Death

@josephw said
If the media showed the American people how many times assaults and murders were thwarted by a legally armed American it would change the entire argument.

Are these armed Americans you speak of teenagers with military style automatic assault weapons and hundreds and hundreds of bullets?

@josephw said
The truth is out there, but the "media" isn't telling it.

If the TV showed the American people uncensored footage of the bodies of elementary school children who'd been blown apart with military-style assault weapons, would it affect the gun safety/regulation debate?

@FMF

I think you must be very naive. Do you actually believe that disarming law abiding citizens will curb the carnage?

@josephw said
I think you must be very naive. Do you actually believe that disarming law abiding citizens will curb the carnage?

You are deflecting. I have not suggested that U.S. citizens be disarmed. And I am not disputing that your constitution gives you the right to "keep and bear arms". This is the question:

If the TV showed the American people uncensored footage of the bodies of elementary school children who'd been blown apart with military-style assault weapons, would it affect the gun safety/regulation debate?

@josephw said
Do you actually believe that disarming law abiding citizens will curb the carnage?

I don't believe the right to own firearms will ever be taken away in the U.S. That isn't the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is the debate about guns.

@fmf said
If the TV showed the American people uncensored footage of the bodies of elementary school children who'd been blown apart with military-style assault weapons, would it affect the gun safety/regulation debate?

Of course it would.

But the media is as biased as hell.

It would be politicized. They, the liberal left, want to abolish the second amendment, and that is, and would be, the only reason for showing the graphic "uncensored blown apart bodies" of children.

Why would you suggest such gore?

@josephw said
Why would you suggest such gore?

I see no reason for society to be insulated from it.

@josephw said
Of course it would.

I think so too.

@fmf said
I don't believe the right to own firearms will ever be taken away in the U.S. That isn't the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is the debate about guns.

Don't be so sure. And if "they" should try to take away the guns you'd see, if the media was allowed to show it, more bloodshed than anyone in their right mind would want to see.

A hundred million guns and a trillion rounds of ammunition will not be easy to take.

@josephw said
They, the liberal left, want to abolish the second amendment, and that is, and would be, the only reason for showing the graphic "uncensored blown apart bodies" of children.

Why would you suggest such gore?

The liberal left want to abolish the second amendment

I have never seen it on any credible U.S. politician's manifetso.

@josephw said
Of course it would.

But the media is as biased as hell.

It would be politicized. They, the liberal left, want to abolish the second amendment, and that is, and would be, the only reason for showing the graphic "uncensored blown apart bodies" of children.

The media is as biased as hell

So, if they are biased, and if it would affect the debate, as you claim, then why aren't the media "showing the graphic uncensored blown apart bodies of children"?

@josephw said
Don't be so sure. And if "they" should try to take away the guns you'd see, if the media was allowed to show it, more bloodshed than anyone in their right mind would want to see.A hundred million guns and a trillion rounds of ammunition will not be easy to take.

So then, we agree, right? I said: I don't believe the right to own firearms will ever be taken away in the U.S.

@FMF

Man, I'm not going down this political/social/culture path. Too many arguments and opinions.

I post in this forum exclusively because I'm interested in things relative to spirituality.

I should have stayed in the ataraxia thread. Now I'm all stressed out. 😁

Past my bedtime.

@josephw said
Man, I'm not going down this political/social/culture path. Too many arguments and opinions.

I post in this forum exclusively because I'm interested in things relative to spirituality.

I should have stayed in the ataraxia thread. Now I'm all stressed out. 😁

Past my bedtime.

Mmmm. You got yourself in a bit of a knot and so you flee.