Markos Moulitsas On Guns And The Paris Attacks
BY Herschel Smith
9 years ago
Here is Daily Kos himself:
So if those countries, awash in weaponry, couldn’t stop those terrorist attacks, then what kind of moron thinks that it would’ve made a difference in Paris?
The reality is that Paris-style attacks are surprisingly simple to carry out. It’s a blessing that they’re not more common in the West. So rather than try to create an oppressive surveillance state or pretend that more guns are a solution to anything except a lack of death and mayhem, perhaps we could focus on addressing root causes?
And maybe, just maybe, we can even try not being the root cause in the future? Crazy shit, I know.
Of course, stopping terrorist attacks isn’t the point. Controlling borders is more to the point, i.e., not letting people in like MS13, cartel enforcers, and Syrian, Somali and other radicalized Islamic immigrants. But you know that.
What we see in Markos is sad, pitiable, even repulsive self-loathing. It seems like something I shouldn’t be watching, done in the privacy of his own bedroom. But as unseemly as this is, I can’t turn away, like driving by an accident without looking at the carnage.
Markos thinks he’s responsible, or if not him directly, his kind, or his ilk, or those who share his skin color who don’t think like him, or something like that. Only he could tell us for sure. But ISIS is apparently someone’s fault other than ISIS. This is the progressive sickness, to be sure.
Every sin isn’t really a sin, just a dysfunction cause by bad white Americans and colonialists and Patriarchal bigotry and wealth densification within certain demographics, and so on and so forth. It must be tiring to live with progressive guilt and outrage. And I’m sure based on what I know about ISIS that if we left them all alone, they would be okay just beheading women and children in Iraq and Syria and killing young people in Paris.
As for Markos and his revulsion towards guns, I share it. I don’t want Markos to have a gun either. Ever. I want Markos to be as defenseless as he wants everyone else to be in the face of danger. Markos and I actually agree on something. As for me, I will always have weaponry. Markos is probably smart enough to know that we would never give it up without a fight.
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On November 17, 2015 at 7:46 am, Kerry said:
As Markos’ “we” certainly includes at least himself, perhaps he should atone for his ‘sins’ by washing his mouth out with a revolver.
On November 17, 2015 at 2:16 pm, Arizona Gunowner said:
ISIS is Islam in its purest form. It is not a creation of anybody except Muhammad.
And there is only 1 way to save our country – get rid of Islam.
I wrote this back in 2007 –
http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposed-constitutional-amendment.html
(but I am not the Pedetrian Infidel).
As long as we pretend that Islam is a “religion”, rather than the VIOLENT political ideology of conquest that it is, we cannot stop it.