There's political motivation behind a
lot of the debate and strategy … but do some solutions really need to
be political or have an agenda?
-Do Something(TM): This is a political
tactic, and a Twins of Liberty brainchild that acknowledges the guns
rights community has not been proactive and been caught off-guard by
the anti-rights movement. The idea is that gun control measures are
emotionally driven by sensationalism in liberal media that's backed
by billionaire Bloomberg, and people act as sheep by being coaxed
into temporarily wanting this restriction placed in their lives. One
of their motivators is the idea that they're the only ones offering a
solution to an ongoing problem... which is kind of true, because all
the guns rights community has offered is angry dissent, rather than
their own ideas. Do Something(TM)'s premise is to offer legitimate
alternatives in order to expand discussion beyond gun control
measures. Turning it into a discussion counters the passionate wave
the gun control movement relies on, and acts as a delay tactic for
measures that are intended to strip us of our rights. It's a win-win
approach that prevents stupid laws AND supports credible solutions.
-#DoSomething: An agenda, not a
movement. This is not about actual solutions, but taking advantage of
an opportunity granted by the death of children to pursue a gun ban.
They don't care about actually protecting schools and decreasing
violence. A real movement would be proposing a hundred valid
solutions, yet they're only pursing one flawed idea. In fact, here's
a good example of them ridiculing a perfectly legitimate security
practice because it doesn't fit the narrative they're trying to
produce - Texas
official blames school shooting on too many exits and entrances.
They took the Lt. Governor of Texas out of context, and made him
sound like a complete fool. Controlled access points into buildings
that can be monitored and have random bag searches is a well
established practice in nearly every major office or government
building. The idea of armed security or teachers is also treated as a
joke, as if somehow active self-defense is more ridiculous than lying
in a fetal position kissing your ass goodbye when faced with a
threat. The fact they'll try to discredit valid solutions is proof of
what they really care about.
One of the things that has me beating
my head into the wall is “How do they get away with blocking actual
solutions, yet still rally people under a #DoSomething banner?” The
fact is, the typical liberal is not the intellectual that they
pretend to be. They're very shallow and concerned about an image,
which has to do with the fact that its majority is a younger
demographic (I was even one of them before shifting towards
libertarian ideology as I matured). They have excellent marketing that
sells an image of being the good guys... being the ones with the only
solution, being the ones that care, and holding a moral high ground.
Image trumps actual logic and reason.
-F@#$ing Doing Something: This is one
of my frustrations... We have easy ways to fix this. We could stop
sensationalizing these actions in order to prevent copy cats that
want to be immortalized. We could put School Resource Officers in
every school, or train teachers that are willing to be armed if
funding is an issue. But what about solutions that fall completely
within the control of our own households?
I can't ignore the fact that
irresponsible gun owners contribute to the problem. We're all quick
to criticize someone in a picture that isn't practicing trigger
discipline, or muzzling their friends in a video... but we don't say
anything to those folks in our lives who we know keep a loaded gun in
their closet that's accessible to a child. I don't care how well
trained you THINK your children are, they shouldn't be anywhere near
a gun without direct supervision. It's negligence to not lock up your
firearms. Does punching in a digital combination add a few seconds to
your reaction time for home defense? Sure. But is it logical to
introduce a new threat in order to counter another? The added
reaction time is worth the elimination of this realistic consequence.
It's a fact accidents and many mass shootings could have been
prevented with parents using a gun safe that their children don't
have access to. F@#$ing do something to ensure it's not your child
shooting up a school.
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