Look At This Virtue Signaling
Categories: News
As I sat down to examine the news today, the first thing that popped up on my feed is what you see in the photo above. Virtue signaling out the ass. For those of you who don’t know what virtue signaling is, this is the definition verbatim “the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one’s good character or the moral correctness of one’s position on a particular issue.”
Apparently, telling everyone how bad guns are warrants not one, but two top headlines in my news feed. I didn’t click on the CNN or BBC links, but I’m going to bet a beer or two that despite the innocent headlines, there is some sort of elitist “NoBoDy NeEdS tHeSe TyPeS oF wEaPoNs” eye cancer sprinkled somewhere amongst the drivel.
I’m going to make several bold assumptions here that I feel pretty cool with making. I know the rules, don’t assume because when I assume I make an ass out of “u and me”. But I feel relatively confident in these assumptions.
None of the people writing those articles have ever been in a situation where their life depended on a firearm. If they have, it was probably someone else’s firearm they depended on and not theirs. I’m assuming they either don’t have one, or they won’t carry and if they do carry, they probably do the Israeli carry…which is dumb. If you don’t have one in the pipe you’ve already lost the gunfight.
Since I’ve made these assumptions and I feel relatively confident in them, I’m going to say the following.
I’ll be taking advice on firearm ownership from non-firearm owners when protein farts stop being the smelliest farts ever.
In better news, Missouri decided that they’d go the complete opposite direction by giving tax incentives to citizens for buying an AR-15. Nice.
So are they banning new military-style guns or all military-style guns? That would get rid of almost every gun. Are they picking a certain military (US Russia China Canada)? Who is to say what a military style gun is.
Lets all move to Missouri!
I really don’t trust the tax incentive plan, that just tell the government who has an AR-15, and they can start ‘registering’ them. Sure it sounds good, however, do you really trust the government or politicians?
We don’t, but state governments are luckily usually a little more accountable…usually.
Way to go, Missouri. New Zealand, you should have checked the stats. When are you “I wanna ban guns, limit guns, limit ordnance, etc etc etc” Koolaid-drinking treehuggers gonna absorb TWO important facts.
ONE: Criminals don’t abide by any laws and mass murderers are pretty much topping the criminal list.
TWO: In America, the Second Amendment gives me, as an American citizen, carte blanche to have whatever weapons and ammunition I care to buy.
THIS WE’LL DEFEND
Way to go, Missouri. New Zealand, you should have checked the stats. When are you “I wanna ban guns, limit guns, limit ordnance, etc etc etc” Koolaid-drinking treehuggers gonna absorb TWO important facts.
ONE: Criminals don’t abide by any laws and mass murderers are pretty much topping the criminal list.
TWO: In America, the Second Amendment gives me, as an American citizen, carte blanche to have whatever weapons and ammunition I care to buy.
THIS WE’LL DEFEND
My take is pretty simple:a large portion of Americans are veterans of military service.
Most of us have been trained on the AR15/M16 pattern rifle. It’s what we know, there’s a certain muscle-memory response to the rifle. We’re comfortable with it.
The problem is, most people, lawmakers included, are not comfortable with the fact that WE have a certain level of comfort and familiarity with something that scares or unnerves the general populace. To put a not-so-pretty face on it, we (the enlisted) have taken it upon ourselves to accept the burden of taking lives in the process of ensuring that other lives are preserved to, hopefully, fix a system that requires people like me to even have to exist.
We don’t WANT to have to do what we do, but if we have to, you can damn well bet we’ll do it better than anyone else.
Regrettably, most lawmakers and higher-ups won’t or don’t see it that way.
Your mileage may vary…