I Have A Question About "From My Cold Dead Hands"

[ChoppinBroccoli]

For anyone who has ever uttered this phrase, clearly you are indicating that you are willing to DIE for your guns. My question is simply this: is there any OTHER inanimate object in your house that you're willing to DIE for?

Because honestly, I don't remember hearing anyone proclaiming that we'd have to pry their asbestos insulation from their cold dead hands, or that we'd have to pry their lead-based paint out of their cold dead hands. I don't remember anyone willing to lay down their lives to protect their set of lawn darts or their non-childproof caps.

So if guns are the only objects in your house you're willing to literally die for, what makes them SO special to you? What is it about a gun that has inspired THIS level of devotion? Because quite frankly, I wouldn't be willing to die for ANY inanimate object in MY house. Sounds like you may need some mental health counseling to be THAT attached to an inanimate object.

[Effete Snob]

1. My Vitamix blender

I don’t have a gun, but give me smoothies or give me death.

[MerryBlooms]

2. Why did you mock this OP?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

3. I Didn't Take It As Mocking--I Thought It Was Funny

[MerryBlooms]

6. What was funny about it? Comparing a kitchen

Appliance that annilates broccoli, to dead kids annilated by a gun? I find it disturbing and despicable,. Your mileage varied.

[Effete Snob]

11. No one made that comparison

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This was the question in the OP:

"is there any OTHER inanimate object in your house that you're willing to DIE for?"

No one, other than you, is comparing broccoli to shooting victims. You are the only person making that comparison.

For the record, I have never put broccoli in a blender, and I'm not sure why I would.

[inthewind21]

19. Overreaction much?

[Effete Snob]

10. I thought I was answering your question

"is there any OTHER inanimate object in your house that you're willing to DIE for?"

I like my Instant Pot too.

The post literally invited responses naming a household object to which one is attached. Really bizarre for someone to go off about dead kids.

Since this is DU, I doubt you'll get a lot of crazed gun-humpers to whom the post is rhetorically directed, so in the anticipated lack of responses, I thought I'd mention that I really like my Vitamix. It has changed my whole outlook on blending.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

13. Since you are clearly new to the internet, that wasn't mocking.

I can direct you to some place where you can see what mocking looks like on the internet. It won't make you happy, though.

[PTWB]

16. LOL amen

I couldn’t live without my smoothies.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. This country is an inherently and historically violent society

and that history of violence, as a product of the European colonizers, predates the 2nd Amendment by at least a century, if not two.

The people who are convinced they must cling to their weapons to the death think that way because they are still, several hundred years on, living with the idea that this continues to be a violent country and the only way they can keep that violence away from their doorstep is with firearms.

It also shows a huge amount of insecurity in the country they live in, the government they ostensibly put in charge and the people they share the landscape with, as if anyone and everyone is a potential threat to their way of life, including the aforementioned government. As comedian Jim Jeffries pointed out, "who the fuck are you that you have people who want to kill you?"

As the old saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you are so wrapped up in your perceived need to own an arsenal because you are absolutely sure you might have to use it on your fellow countrymen, the likelihood you are eventually going to shoot at someone rises dramatically.

[Hugin]

14. There it is.

Inherently poverty of thought. If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. No need to come up with alternative solutions or compromise.

So maybe even some laziness mixed in there.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. Oh, absolutely laziness.

No doubt.

How much real thought or insight does it take to be afraid of something that poses no true threat?

It’s far easier to be afraid than to look at the larger picture with a critical, logical mind and determine there isn’t really any danger at all.

[piddyprints]

5. I'm totally with you.

I've found the "cold dead hands" thing to be offensive and downright idiotic ever since the first time I heard it.

I do not own a single inanimate object that I'm willing to die for. I would give my life for my family. That's it.

You are right on target about the mental health counseling. The big question, though, is how can we get it for them? The first step is to admit you have a problem. If they don't admit, or even realize, they have a problem, how can they be helped?

[inthewind21]

20. Why

are we constantly making an excuse for the hateful, self centered and downright evil things citizens of this country do by screaming "mental health" for the bad that happens at the hands of a US citizen? It is possible that a very LOT are just idiots, or have an evil streak and are perfectly aware of what they do and why? Who CHOOSE to be the way they are? Of course it is. See Republican party. Do you think the US is the ONLY country on the planet with people who actually do have mental health issues? Did you think the 911 terrorists were all mentally ill? Funny thing, I didn't hear ANYONE claiming mental illness must be the issue with the terrorists after 9/11. Personally, I believe the public's rush to immediately create and find a blame , such as "oh he/she was mentally ill" is part of the problem. 9/11, 2,977 people died, Bunch of evil terrorists who need to be hunted down and killed, tortured, waterboarded whatever the vengeance of the day was. With the full backing of the US population, for the most part. Hell we bankrupted ourselves waging war for over 20 years. Kids shot dead in the US by US citizens in 2020, 4,122 but oh, We need more "mental health" help. It boggles my mind.

[piddyprints]

21. I am not saying that "mental health"

is to blame for mass shootings.

I am just agreeing that the excessive love for guns is not exactly healthy and that anyone who would be willing to die in order to keep one ( "cold dead hands" ) should seek help. That is all.

What I am NOT saying is all that other stuff. You and I actually agree that it's wrong to blame "mental health" for mass murder.

[MerryBlooms]

7. I agree with you. I have people in my family,

That you've described perfectly, and I stopped talking to them years ago. One thing that they all had in common, was they were bullies. Tormented me in childhood. Mocked and gaslighted me as an adult. I don't miss any of them.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. Incandescent bulbs? 3.4 gallon toilets?

[Effete Snob]

12. well...

With those other toilets, you have to push the lever ten, fifteen times.

[Frasier Balzov]

22. And he STILL won't go through.

[48656c6c6f20]

9. Your proposal is acceptable

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[Bucky]

17. It's not THEIR cold dead hands I'm concerned with

It's all the other cold dead hands pooled about in classrooms and hospitals and shopping centers.

[Mosby]

18. I think the gun is being used as a metaphor

for the second amendment, which they are willing to die for.

I just wish those folks cared as much about the rest of the constitution.