Mortdooley wrote on Nov 20
th, 2020 at 11:08pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 20
th, 2020 at 1:12pm:
Set your emotions and superior attitude aside and tell us what benefit restrictions will produce. We have already seen a Media so obsessed with the Virus that any mass shooter can not expect the international fame like in the past. What difference does it make to people outside the Country what Americans own?
What business is it of yours?
It’s none of our business, Mort, just a test of our logic to place the prevention of mass shootings in the hands of an out-of-control pandemic, that’s all.
Americans love freedom, we get that. You love the freedom to own semi-automatic weapons, just as you love the freedom to go about your business, freely spreading coronavirus and seeing the world’s highest number of cases as a result. You even love the freedom of a Media to obsess over it, freely reporting the increasing daily death toll, with 1962 people killed by the virus just yesterday.
What you don’t love, we assume, is your government’s responsibility to do something about it. That’s what makes people in other countries take notice. There’s America, we see, the richest, smartest and most powerful country in the world, and its government won’t even take the most basic steps to stop its people dying.
The doctors and nurses and scientists and funeral directors are working overtime, but your prez is hiding from the public, doing nothing.
Sure, you just voted him out, but the guy who replaces him is going to have an uphill battle on his hands to protect his citizens. He’s already been called a “radical” for discussing health care. Your current prez refused to discuss it. He said he had a plan, that’s all. When journalists asked to see it, they were told to wait and see what happens.
Same with guns. Whenever a killer goes out and machine-guns a crowd in a school or church or big event, your prez offers his thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. I know that’s your business, but when foreigners see this, they don’t understand why nobody does anything about it.
A lot of Americans worry about China beating America and becoming number 1, but China doesn’t sell any old person with cash a gun. China doesn’t have a raging pandemic, even though coronavirus started there in the first place. People in China don’t love freedom as much as the Americans, but they don’t have 1962 people dying from coronavirus each day. The Chinese government took action, shut down states, built hospitals and made sure people wore masks. While they did all this, your prez was saying there’s no problem. China has it all under control, he said. It’s a couple of cases, nothing to worry about.
Freedom, as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four“. Totalitarianism does not just deny “the validity of experience... but the very existence of an external reality.” While your guns are none of my business, your leaps of logic are everybody’s business.
Mass killers aren’t denied access to international fame by “a Media” obsessed with a pandemic, they are enabled by quick and easy access to semi-automatic weapons. The media is obsessed with a pandemic because it’s currently skyrocketing, a steep line up. Your hospitals are full, your economy is staggering, your death toll is unprecedented - over half the total of US deaths during WWII.
In some states, the rate of positive coronavirus tests is over 50%. You have no ability to contact-trace, monitor or control the spread. Your country is now encountering the worst-case scenarios forecast by your chief scientists earlier in the year. Your president was shown the potential rates of transmission, were he to do nothing. He subsequently did just that, and here you are, enjoying your freedom to own guns.
That freedom may not be our business, Mort, but no matter what you say, two plus two still equals four. That, you see, is ours.
You can enjoy that freedom too, while you still have it.
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