Religious War

[Michael McMahon]

One reason gun ownership can be redemptive is because there’s no limit to self-deprecation. For example Wonka was sincere in trying to be sarcastic but might have underestimated just how sarcastic they were about England to those who didn’t care too much about England! So the Catholic monks were parodied as being too upbeat in a secretive way with their chanting in a way that ironically promoted Catholicism to those who’d think that’s how serious monks actually should’ve been had they taken the afterlife very seriously! The lack of an Asian actor implied that England could indeed descend into a musical if they forgot about the existence of Asia! English people weren’t offended by the movie when they’re all so resilient but that’s why sarcasm can be impersonal and indirect when they don’t know who’s watching.


Wonka - Pure Imagination- Timothée Chamalet

Likewise the lack of a black actor in The Lord of the Rings was a subtle warning of how extreme people could view themselves to be if they forgot how stoic black athletes could be! Needless to say the humour is consensual!


The Fellowship of the Ring - Council of Elrond Part 2

 

[Mungo Jerry]

If we sided with deism that God created the world and tried to reconcile it...

Nothing in this salad does anything to propose, must less demonstrate, a rational argument for the need "to defeat gun ownership".

 

[Michael McMahon]

Nothing in this salad does anything to propose, must less demonstrate, a rational argument for the need "to defeat gun ownership".

One reason gun rights didn’t descend into much higher casualties is because an entire society can adapt passively by being very polite to everyone. So it’s still amazing why there aren’t way more sniping and mass shootings in a gun zone if it guns were only recently reintroduced in an original gun control state. Yet ultimately politeness could backfire if it downplayed the need to sincerely help people!


The Truman Show 3/9 - Being Spontaneous

 

[Michael McMahon]

One way flawed self-defence policies can be aggravated is that mass shooters really aren’t meant to be even a tiny bit redeemed in “stress testing” a self-defence policy because the educational ability of evil people wouldn’t be needed if engineers were assigned to pre-empt such policy failures. For example a plane crash might always be worse and more tragic than it is helpful in terms of identifying the cause of the mechanical failure to stop other planes crashing with the same mechanical failure.

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Mayday: Plane Crashes into the Water - Aircrash Confidential Ep 1

 

[Michael McMahon]

“95% of American public schools drill students on lockdown procedures. Yet, there is almost no research affirming the value of these drills for preventing school shootings or protecting the school community when shootings do occur.”
https://www.everytown.org/solutions/active-shooter-drills/

Perhaps a more extreme version of a school mass shooter drill would be if a SWAT team were given an order to evacuate students in a school as a surprise drill!

 

[Mungo Jerry]

“95% of American public schools drill students on lockdown procedures. Yet, there is almost no research affirming the value of these drills for preventing school shootings or protecting the school community when shootings do occur.”
https://www.everytown.org/solutions/active-shooter-drills/

Perhaps a more extreme version of a school mass shooter drill would be if a SWAT team were given an order to evacuate students in a school as a surprise drill!

All I see here is your inability to propose, much less demonstrate, a rational argument for the need "to defeat gun ownership".

 

[Michael McMahon]

Perhaps carrying swords might lead to a temptation to be more aggressive as a person to defend against weaker people knowing that they’d always be guaranteed to have a small chance of defeating you. Swordfighting might look like it’d take a long time to learn but axes and hatchets are so flexible that momentum can be more important than technique. Gun control could technically legalise large contact weaponry to carry like swords if only to compete against gun ownership! It’s hard to know whether a sword fight is less fair or “natural” than a fist fight given that ancient warfare seldom used fistfights! Smaller people could have an unfair advantage by training nonstop with a sword but larger people can always charge or use a high risk strategy to overcome a lack of training. Fencing is possible as a self-defence system only if larger people refused to glorify a violent mindset to increase their advantage were a swordfight to occur knowing that the chances of being attacked are still fairly low. I always offer women a sword before a fight(!):


Wednesday and Bianca’s Fencing Match

 

[Mungo Jerry]

Perhaps carrying swords might lead...

You clearly cannot meet the challenge issued to you.
Buh-bye.

 

[Michael McMahon]

You clearly cannot meet the challenge issued to you.
Buh-bye.

A problem with stronger people is that they can accidentally appear more serious than they intended on an issue because they were serious about some other life issue or social problem. So some people from a larger country who agree with a political issue might actually do so passively without much thought in spite of appearing emphatic in a way that could lead to a downward spiral of other passive people appearing to be emphatic supporters. So it’s possible that gun control might be more tolerable to others in the future if other social issues are resolved beforehand. For example a CEO could make a snap decision to change an architectural plan or replace board managers where the influence of superrich people in America could be volatile for gun control in future decades!

 

[Michael McMahon]

In unenforced gun control zones it can still be ethical to brace people for the risk of mass shooters even if you don’t have a gun to shoot back(!):


Heart-rending Titanic Most Emotive Violin Scene

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’ll pre-empt the social rejection of my thread by musing that gun ownership is a cultural identity crisis relative to gun control! Perhaps America is caught between a rock and a hard place by having a love/hate relationship with both Europe and Asia such that Americans failed to unite their country under gun control. No matter how cosmopolitan Japan is or how much more capitalist China became they were still former nuclear enemies of America. Europe deters America being more insular while Asia deters America being more cosmopolitan. There are many Asian immigrants in Ireland but not a huge amount relative to how many billions of Asians there are as if there were a creepy ultimatum that Asia full exists or doesn’t exist instead of half-existing when Asia is far more powerful than Ireland! European capitalists are often flawed to not care much about Asia in spite of Asia having a never-ending work ethic throughout their history. Los Angeles is geographically closer to Tokyo and Australia than it is to London or Paris but Los Angeles still has a large European population such that Hollywood often portrays their city very inconsistently where humility is needed to limit how serious and cosmopolitan America yearns to be.


Speed (2/5) - Jumping the Gap - 1994 Keanu Reeves

 

[CLAX1911]

I’ll pre-empt the social rejection of my thread by musing that gun ownership is a cultural identity crisis relative to gun control! Perhaps America is caught between a rock and a hard place by having a love/hate relationship with both Europe and Asia such that Americans failed to unite their country under gun control. No matter how cosmopolitan Japan is or how much more capitalist China became they were still former nuclear enemies of America. Europe deters America being more insular while Asia deters America being more cosmopolitan. There are many Asian immigrants in Ireland but not a huge amount relative to how many billions of Asians there are as if there were a creepy ultimatum that Asia full exists or doesn’t exist instead of half-existing when Asia is far more powerful than Ireland! European capitalists are often flawed to not care much about Asia in spite of Asia having a never-ending work ethic throughout their history. Los Angeles is geographically closer to Tokyo and Australia than it is to London or Paris but Los Angeles still has a large European population such that Hollywood often portrays their city very inconsistently where humility is needed to limit how serious and cosmopolitan America yearns to be.


Speed (2/5) - Jumping the Gap - 1994 Keanu Reeves

You do know that movies aren't real right?

 

[Michael McMahon]

You do know that movies aren't real right?

I’d a dream last night in which a man on a horse approached from behind and hit a woman on the head with a golf club. So who knows whether gun ownership could appear less ridiculous if horses were frequently used by criminals. Although it might be easier to hear a horse galloping towards you compared to a human’s footsteps! Who knows how difficult it might be to stab an attacker on a horse if we’re not medieval knights! Perhaps the wild west was more about cavalry charges rather than revolvers!

 

[Michael McMahon]

It’s possible to exploit loopholes in gun control where theoretically a criminal could release several guard dogs against you only that someone walking with so many strong dogs would likely be visible to many pedestrians.

 

[Michael McMahon]

Owen Wilson’s ultimate attempt to escape a war-torn country away to peaceful Vietnam almost parodies an attempt to flee a gun zone to a socialist gun control zone. It almost symbolises how few people are willing to declare an emergency to escape to a local gun control zone ASAP:


No Escape 2015 - Owen Wilson - Rooftop Jump Scene

“Vietnam has one of the strictest gun laws in the world. The policy reflects the cultural and historical influences that have shaped the nation. Little has been written on Vietnamese gun control, in part because of the inaccessibility and loss of documents as a result of the country's violent history.” i2i org

 

[Michael McMahon]

A limit of gun rights is that if everyone tried to be the strongest version of themselves then anyone stronger and more relaxed than you is immediately helped by knowing their own passive baseline is stronger than your most energetic or angriest self. This happens consensually in sports competitions and can be both good and bad depending on the ethics of stronger people. So gun ownership can almost be an ironic and mild form of team sport. Vice versa anyone too relaxed and complacent with upper body strength in a gone zone might be outcompeted by more cardiovascular and smaller people! As such an appropriate physique can be a tricky balancing act.

(Argo 1:03:55)
Canadian Ambassador: “I was expecting more of a G-man look.”
CIA agent Ben Affleck: “I think you’re thinking of the FBI, sir.”