"Gun Violence" : Word games and political manipulation from

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the left.

I am sick of hearing this ridiculous phrase. There is no such thing as "gun violence". There is only "violence".

Every news organization uses this ridiculous phrase. This phrase has seeped into the English lexicon. I've even seen members of this forum use this phrase.

It's not going to stop, of course, but at least we should avoid using it, ever. There is no point in asking why a distinction is made between using a firearm to commit a violent act, and all other conceivable means to do so. It takes only a moment's thought to know the reasons why this phrase is employed at every possible chance.

We do not refer to "knife violence" or "baseball bat violence" or "manual strangulation violence" and on and on. Reading these terms now, they seem silly, don't they? And well they should, but we have become conditioned to the word games being played by those who oppose the Second Amendment and gun ownership in this country.

Violence does not originate with inanimate objects. Violence and violent crimes comes from one source alone: the human animal.

The underlying suggestion of this ridiculous phrase is that if all guns were removed from society, the world would become a paradise, and this is beyond naive and preposterous.

Rarely do cartoons hit the mark so squarely as the one below.

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What gets me also is the positioning that guns are ‘built to kill people’ when, again, it’s just a tool. It can be used for great things, like fight against tyranny, whether it be a broad level or a personal level. And like any tool, it can be misused.

The implication I've heard from the anti-gun crowd is that guns are uncontrollably dangerous because they are designed to kill. Somehow the dangerous energy within the gun infuses the human to commit violence. Since knives, baseball bats, and cars are not designed with the intent to kill humans, their existence is ok. There seems to be a belief, too, that gun owners harbor latent violent desires which is why they want a gun in the first place.

Yes, some firearms were designed to be used against humans. A friend owns several WWII rifles, all but one of which was used by deployed troops, so they not only are weapons designed for war, they are weapons actually used in war. Some are, of course, bolt action with fixed magazines of low capacity and would be poor choices to commit mass murder or robbery with. They've been repurposed into peaceful sporting equipment which are used to punch holes in paper.

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I am not a fan of the term gun rights either, b/c again, guns are inanimate objects. Guns don't have rights. Gun owners do. I understand the term was coined more or less as a matter of convenience.

I use the term "Civil Right" whenever discussing the issue.

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The Left/Progessives like to Word-Smith terms and definitions, they believe they're the more learned and sophisticated of the political persuasions, repackaging phrases and meanings, warping them to fit their agenda. You throw out the right to gun ownership as a Civil Right, and they're automatically on their heels. Most will attempt to blow you off as some rube not quite understanding 'Civil Rights' and you dig-in, 'at what point, is personal defense and protection not a Civil Right?'.

Most either stammer-off out of frustration knowing they met somebody who's not willing to get verbally run-over or, they'll switch it around to 'well, you don't have a right to murder someone..'
To which I respond 'I sure do have the right to stop someone when their hands are on me or they're in my daughter's bedroom assaulting her'.

At which point, they attempt to mealy-mouth their way into a philosophical argument about society and the rights/wrongs of our culture, but never addressing the threat. Have I described wolly to a 'T' throughout my posts? Why yes, yes I have.

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Speaking of which, good ol' wolly should be along shortly to conflate, comport and portend, lol.

[dilligaf]

You are right.

Guns are not violent.

Guns do not attack or murder people.

Gun's have no rights.  I have never seen a gun voting, but maybe they should, out of self-defense.

Violence is what criminals use to harm and murder people.

The criminal's MIND is what causes him to take up a mindless, inanimate tool to inflict bodily harm and death upon people he does not like or agree with.

The problem with gun violence is we cannot eliminate PEOPLE VIOLENCE..

I have listed in the past  some pretty harsh punishments for people using guns illegally,    The sooner all 50 states put these laws into effect, the sooner we will all be better off.