Reply #20: A Question of Possible Interest [View All]

[Herman74]

"....for the last several decades, the vast majority of gun rights opposition has come from the Democratic party." -- pipoman

Now why do you suppose that is? Perhaps this photograph here might be of some help:



You see, over the years thousands upon thousands of people have gotten shot to death, and unlike Republicans, true Democrats value human life over property rights. We don't mind sacrificing our right to own a rifle if it means that some hateful person can't be able to buy a gun and shoot and kill the President of the United States (or others for that matter).

Of course there are other means to murder people besides the gun, but they often just aren't as effective. This guy here survived attempts on his life that came from both bombs and daggers, but it was a bullet that brought him down:



Funny, I just don't see a moral giant like Mahatma Gandhi ever carrying a gun for self-defense, how about you?

Nor do I see this very progressive guy, a passionate advocate of nonviolence, ever carrying a gun for any reason:



Of course, a gun wouldn't have helped Martin Luther King, Jr. to any degree at all, as there was no way he saw the bullet (fired by a rifle some distance away) coming. Here's what the bullet did to him: "The bullet traveled through his right cheek, smashing his jaw and then going down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder." (Wikipedia). Think about that. You see, there's that pesky fact that the criminal, having foreknowledge that a crime is going to be committed, draws his gun first. NOTHING, REPEAT NOTHING, the gunlovers can say can ever change that fact. When faced with a gun pointed at him, even Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly knew that the gun in his holster was at that point in time, useless.

Shortly after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., we Democrats had to endure the murder of a very progressive, egalitarian fellow who would have saved us (and the world) from Nixon (and the merciless bombing of Vietnam, and Watergate, etc.), if only a bullet hadn't cut his life short:

Poor guy, never saw the bullet coming: Wikipedia reports "One bullet, fired at a range of about 1 inch (2.54 cm), entered behind his right ear, dispersing fragments throughout his brain."

This guy here imagined a world of people living in peace (how very progressive), until he was a shot and murdered by someone completely demented:



Alas, gunlovers are just concerned about their own rights, not about the right of others to live in peace, and don't give a damn that future killers aren't born with a tattoo declaring, "I'm crazy, don't sell me a gun!" Consequently, giving the law-abiding a right to own a gun also gives the crazy a means to kill. So the killing goes on, with the United States (with its relatively loose gun laws and high gun prevalence) easily the leader in the murder rate among all countries within the OECD (i.e., highly industrialized countries).

I hope that I have shed some light on the reasons why "for the last several decades, the vast majority of gun rights opposition has come from the Democratic party."

Do you yourself have additional reasons?