Have People Changed?

[Mister D]

Yes. It involved the problem of evil. People cannot be evil so guns must be. It is the story of the (e)scape goat. The sins of the people are laid upon the head of that goat which is forced out into the wilderness.

So we vilify guns instead of recognizing that some people are filled with evil and must be stopped, one way or another.

To a leftist, I think, the solution is always to impose the collective upon the individual. One must conform or be crushed.

I think people vilify guns because they're raised to believe there is a mechanical solution to every social problem. For them, fixing society is like fixing a car. Ban guns and murder goes away. To your point, this is certainly a matter of evil in some cases but, IMO, a bad way of life in others. My grandfather could have bought a Thompson submachine gun from the Sears catalog but somehow no one ever mowed down the audience at a baseball game in his day. That said, you raise a great point. I think you are spot on when you say that progressives just don't understand evil. It's something they cannot wrap their minds around. The idea that some people really are just bad people is something they can't accept.

[Peter1469]

I haven't changed at all in 72 years. But many others have; for the worse!

Now, we have partisans who put the party over the people. And the Orange Chrush is determined to crush the people, and hand us over to the corporatocracy. Just one look at his cabinet shows that he IS THE SWAMP!

You are 72. Put on your big boy pants and stop using baby talk.

[Mini Me]

You are 72. Put on your big boy pants and stop using baby talk.

Tell that to man-boy Agent orange!

[Mini Me]

[Peter1469]

A 72 year old baby.

Tell that to man-boy Agent orange!

[Peter1469]

A 72 year old baby.

[Peter1469]

At least I know that I am an adult and not a baby.

[Mini Me]

For your amusement!

[MisterVeritis]

For your amusement!

It is a shame to see such decline up close.

[Chris]

I'd have to see the context. I suspect this has something to do with the topic of mass murder. If so, I would suggest that people haven't changed much at all. It's just that basic human psychological and emotional needs are not being adequately me in an atomized and highly competitive social environment.

The liberal agenda has moved organic dependence on society to dependence on organized government, and here we have run into a wall where we are faced with a problem the government cannot solve.