This is an old Zoltar Speaks! blog post.
What drives these people to write such nonsense?
In Greg Humphrey’s recent blog post over at Caffeinated Politics BREAKING NEWS: Gun Violence Continues In America Humphrey has again fallen into emotional fallacy arguments about gun control again.
Humphrey started his rant with this, “This weekend we saw more gun violence from an angry white male”. Humphrey is clearly angry,
Humphrey is clearly a white man, Humphrey is clearly not a spring chicken anymore in fact he would be considered an old man by some of the younger generation; so do we have to worry about violence from this angry old white man named Humphrey too? Is Humphrey oblivious to this perceived natural tendency toward violence all because someone is an angry white man, and an angry old white man at that.
Onward to the guts of the blog post.
When we get to the guts of his argument it appears that his argument consists of, “An AR-15 is a weapon of war” and Humphrey thinks no civilian should ever have a “weapon of war”. First; civilians not having a weapon of war is a matter of individual opinion,
Humphrey is welcome to his own opinion but not his own facts. Something that Humphrey ignores is all firearms are weapons of war, along with all knives, all swords, all vehicles, all boats, all fists, all feet, all hammers, all screwdrivers, etc, etc. Absolutely anything that can be used to kill or make a combatant in war ineffective can be considered a weapon of war, period end of discussion. Humphrey’s home is full of things that can be used as weapons of war.
Humphrey writes,“An AR-15 is a weapon of war. It was developed for the U.S. Military to be used for jungle warfare during Vietnam. “
This is an intentional lie by omission! The AR-15 rifle that was designed for the military in 1957-1958 was developed for the military, the AR-15 styled rifle that civilians can purchase may “look” the same or similar but it does NOT function the same. The AR-15 styled rifle that civilians can purchase was derived from the original AR-15 design but it was stripped of the fully-automatic fire capability that made it a true assault rifle and limiting it to a maximum fire rate of semi-automatic like other civilian firearms e.g. many popular hunting rifles. The Browning BAR used in WWII was also a fully automatic rifle and Browning made a “similar” BAR for civilian usage which is a hugely popular semi-automatic rifle. The same thing can be said for other rifles that are civilian version of military rifles, heck some bolt action rifles and shotguns are EXACTLY the same.
As much as Humphrey, and other anti-gunners, wants to portray the AR-15 styled rifle as an equivalent to the M-16 and its variants, the rhetoric is FALSE! The fact is that it “looks” like the military versions but it doesn’t function like the military versions. These are inconvenient facts that they intentionally omit from their arguments to gin up anti-gun emotions, these people are liars. The anti-gun cult doesn’t give a damn that there is a HUGE difference between an AR-15 and an M-16, it’s all about ginning up emotion regardless of facts.
Of course Humphrey closes his blog post with two standard big lies regurgitated regularly by these intentionally ignorant people to get people’s emotions riled up:
“Why do we allow military assault weapons to be owned by private citizens?”
We don’t Mr. Humphrey, the real facts available to everyone prove you wrong. Stop lying!
“Why do [we] allow our fellow citizens to be mowed down almost daily from these types of weapons?”
“Allow”? This argument, and I use the term “argument” very loosely as it relates to Humphrey’s statement, is hyperbole to the point of complete absurdity and straight up emotional bull shit, it’s an outright LIE. No Mr. Humphrey, we don’t “allow” people to use assault styled rifles to “mow down” people anymore than we “allow” a drunk driver to kill others with their vehicle, or“allow” a murderer to stab someone to death with a kitchen knife, or“allow” gangs to shoot and stab each other in inner city turf warfare, or “allow” a terrorist to fly planes into buildings. Mr. Humphrey you’re full of shit!
“Almost daily”? This is more hyperbole to the point of complete absurdity and straight up emotional bull shit, it’s an outright LIE. Mr. Humphrey should read this: LOGIC VS EMOTION.
To sum up this all up nicely, here is a great blog post about the 2nd Amendment that Mr. Humphrey and those that share his anti-gun and anti-2nd Amendment stance should read and learn from: Putting Gun Control In Perspective: The Second Amendment’s Purpose, And How To Protect It
[UPDATE May 8, 2019: More emotional nonsense from Humphrey in this May 7th blog post, “This nation must pull together and tell the powers that be, “Enough is enough.” They are pulling the trigger right along with these madmen when they refuse to stop these horrible killings.” Gotta love how this anti-gun wing-nut tries to directly blame “the powers that be”, translation Republicans, for assisting in pulling the triggers; in other words, he’s calling Republican lawmakers accessories to murderer. This is the worst kind of in-your-face emotional bull shit political rhetoric out there, it’s blatant lies, it’s unethical, and it’s immoral.]
In conclusion: Mr. Humphrey should better educate himself.
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Agreed. The “AR-15 is a weapon of war” meme/lede/belief is intended to misrepresent the argument. It goes like this:
The drafters of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights did not have the ability to think of future weaponry. They existed in the late 1700s where the maximum fire power was a canon and a muzzle loader. They had no idea what 200 years would develop. And besides, those frontier guys needed rifles to hunt.
The 2nd Amendment states that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is limited to an “organized militia”, which either means an army or, more likely, the state contingency of the national guard.
AR-15s and the like are beyond what the drafters had in mind.
Besides, AR-15s are mean and look mean.
So, AR-15s don’t qualify for protection under the 2nd Amendment as applicable to individual use but are limited to state and federal police/military apparati.
Therefore, AR-15s are subject to banning.
If we are worried about weaponry of war, then that maniac in Oklahoma showed that fertilizer is a nice substitute for guns. We should, then, ban fertilizers.
jvb
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Progressives can no longer fight on the playing field of ideas: they have to resort to this sort of rhetoric. Used to be, they had the ability to debate, and chose not to. Now the newer generation, the product of socialist schools, has lost that ability. This is all they know.
It will take force to convince them otherwise. Or the hand of God.
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There is an onslaught of social justice warriors, like Greg Humphrey, trying to control things in our area – especially the schools and the police. Their arguments are absolutely absurd but their “feelings” tell them their absurdity is correct.
If you want a “fun” short read, read the comments in this article where the prominent Liberal/progressive author is actively opposing the wing nuts trying to get the cops out of the violent schools. Of course this prominent Liberal/progressive kept his damn mouth shut, like a good little Liberal/Progressive sheeps’ sphincter, during the campaign so the social justice warrior progressive extremists would win.
This school behavior problem did cause Greg Humphrey to temporarily break with his extremist neighbors and support maintaining discipline in the public schools by thus implying that the schools should retain the ERO’s; Humphrey publicly supported an old white guy Conservative candidate for school board that he knew would most likely loose to the younger social justice warrior black lady. I’ve commended Humphrey for this effort.
By the way the Conservative lost the election for the school board race in this little Liberal/Progressive bubble surrounded by reality, but he stood up for his beliefs, he stood firm against the onslaught of social justice warrior’s ignorant smears and threats, he stood up for maintaining discipline in the schools, he stood up for the teachers being assaulted, he stood up to keep the ERO’s in the schools, he did what he was compelled to do; in this regard he is a hero. He’s the only candidate I’ve ever given money to for their campaign.
P.S. You might recognize some of the rhetorical styles in the commentary.
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I updated the blog with more of Humphrey’s emotional nonsense from his blog post yesterday.
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