Comments on: Please Keep the Poor, Frustrated Gun Control Advocates in Your Thoughts and Prayers, Won’t You?

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:32:01 +0000

In reply to Dude.

Dude,

Here is a quote (apparently from her) on her linked Instagram page:

“We need to protect our communities by enacting laws like safe storage and protective orders that keep weapons out of the wrong hands …”

Safe storage and protective orders are demonstrably ineffective at preventing / stopping bad actors from attacking innocent victims. And yet she is claiming that something which does not work will work simply because she wants it to work. When a toddler does that, Psychologists call that “magical thinking”. I find it interesting that Psychologists drop the “magical thinking” label when adults do it and consider it important discussion.

By: Hush

Hush — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:13:36 +0000

In reply to uncommon_sense. Mr _sense: Me thinks to many will not, for what ever reason, think for themselves and rely on media wobble heads etc for their views/opinions on issues. I have encountered several who refuse to listen to anything outside of their normal sources.

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:53:18 +0000

Something like 50% of our population ignores facts and reality and conducts themselves on emotion which is often destructive and contradicts reality.

I am unable to wrap my head around that way of operating–and how it is so commonplace.

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:30:35 +0000

She seems to think that safe storage and red flag laws are how you stop mass shootings. She even does the gun owner and hunter dance that she thinks gives her some sort of authority on the subject. I’m embarrassed for her.