Classic Ben Stein massive pile of straw.
The only straw is in your post. Can you refute any of Stein's comments? No? Didn't think so.
Why do you think he went with "fat" and "sweaty" and made the man 70? And why do you think he picked your daughter out? Pulling at emotional heartstrings. Trying to get you to picture Jabba the Hutt licking his lips while ogling YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL. It's nonsense.And supposedly serious people are pretending it’s a big civil rights issue whether a fat sweaty 70-year-old man can sit in a toilet stall next to your five-year-old daughter.
Hilariously oversimplified. Supposedly Ben Stein is ignoring any nuance. Right wingers often do. See, "in the name of Allah" isn't sufficient detail. They want to know why. Why kill people. Why that club. Why target homosexuals. There's more to violence than "a book told him to." If you don't see that, I feel sorry for you.And a man takes a semi-automatic sporting rifle, and he’s a Muslim. And he’s shouting that he’s going to kill all the people he can in an Orlando nightclub in the name of Allah and ISIS — and the media are debating what his motivation was.
No. They aren't. They're suggesting that easy access to tools that can cause serious harm contributes to the frequency and magnitude of these events. Have you ever seen a headline "50 killed by man with baseball bat?" In mass stabbings, the number of deaths is usually quite low. The tool matters, and how easy it is to get that tool matters. If we'd sold nuclear bombs for ten bucks at Wal-Mart we wouldn't have a country anymore.And they’re blaming a piece of metal, a totally inert piece of metal, for the murderous acts of a crazy man.
Words in a book don't make you into a murderer. Murderers use books as a justification. Sometimes. When the worst people in history didn't have a book, they just wrote one.And we’re supposed to believe that Islam is a religion of peace
Ben Stein:
“Out there, there are riots and people shooting each other. And supposedly serious people are pretending it’s a big civil rights issue whether a fat sweaty 70-year-old man can sit in a toilet stall next to your five-year-old daughter. And a man takes a semi-automatic sporting rifle, and he’s a Muslim. And he’s shouting that he’s going to kill all the people he can in an Orlando nightclub in the name of Allah and ISIS — and the media are debating what his motivation was. And they’re blaming a piece of metal, a totally inert piece of metal, for the murderous acts of a crazy man. And we’re supposed to believe that Islam is a religion of peace… I’ll make this short: the rest of the world is going nuts.”
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The world isn't 'going nuts'. Some of the people in it have always been nuts.This is nothing new.
But the world will survive because most people are sane.
What we are seeing is the total failure of progressivism/socialism driven by political correctness.
Of course it looks nutty when you have progressives trying to turn the Orlando massacre into domestic gun violence when it was an act of terrorism carried out by an radical islamist Muslim.
Of course it looks nutty when a group of Democrats stage a sit in singing "WE SHALL OVERCOME" Thinking people ask overcome what? The Constitution? The Second Amendment? Due Process?
What we are seeing is the total failure of progressivism/socialism driven by political correctness.
Of course it looks nutty when you have progressives trying to turn the Orlando massacre into domestic gun violence when it was an act of terrorism carried out by an radical islamist Muslim.
Of course it looks nutty when a group of Democrats stage a sit in singing "WE SHALL OVERCOME" Thinking people ask overcome what? The Constitution? The Second Amendment? Due Process?
What we are seeing is the total failure of progressivism/socialism driven by political correctness.
Of course it looks nutty when you have progressives trying to turn the Orlando massacre into domestic gun violence when it was an act of terrorism carried out by an radical islamist Muslim.
Of course it looks nutty when a group of Democrats stage a sit in singing "WE SHALL OVERCOME"The Constitution? The Second Amendment? Due Process?Thinking people ask overcome what?
What exactly would change if Obama called them every offensive name we know?
It's not about name calling. It's about being honest about the cause behind the threat. The threat isn't guns. The threat is radicalized Muslims. Every piece of legislation proposed on gun control would not have stopped Mateen, Farrook or the major at Ft. Hood from carrying out their attacks. They were not on any lists even though the FBI had files on them.
Classic Ben Stein massive pile of straw.
Why do you think he went with "fat" and "sweaty" and made the man 70? And why do you think he picked your daughter out? Pulling at emotional heartstrings. Trying to get you to picture Jabba the Hutt licking his lips while ogling YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL. It's nonsense.
Sure. Let's look at his phrasing.
Why do you think he went with "fat" and "sweaty" and made the man 70? And why do you think he picked your daughter out? Pulling at emotional heartstrings. Trying to get you to picture Jabba the Hutt licking his lips while ogling YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL. It's nonsense.
Hilariously oversimplified. Supposedly Ben Stein is ignoring any nuance. Right wingers often do. See, "in the name of Allah" isn't sufficient detail. They want to know why. Why kill people. Why that club. Why target homosexuals. There's more to violence than "a book told him to." If you don't see that, I feel sorry for you.
No. They aren't. They're suggesting that easy access to tools that can cause serious harm contributes to the frequency and magnitude of these events. Have you ever seen a headline "50 killed by man with baseball bat?" In mass stabbings, the number of deaths is usually quite low. The tool matters, and how easy it is to get that tool matters. If we'd sold nuclear bombs for ten bucks at Wal-Mart we wouldn't have a country anymore.
So maybe, just maybe, we can make it a little harder for madmen, drug dealers, murderers, and terrorists to get bigger, more dangerous weapons. "BUT DEUCE," you immediately vomit onto message boards "CRIMINALS WILL STILL GET GUNS." No ****, sherlock. But a black market AR-15 in Australia can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Criminals can drop $15,000 on a handgun. It makes a difference. Are they still going to get guns? Yes. Are they still going to kill people? Yes. What, you have an option that stops all crime, do you? I'm all ears.
Words in a book don't make you into a murderer. Murderers use books as a justification. Sometimes. When the worst people in history didn't have a book, they just wrote one.
When things not going your way means everyone else is crazy... that makes your sympathizers sympathizers of what pathology, exactly?
When things not going your way means everyone else is crazy... that makes your sympathizers sympathizers of what pathology, exactly?
There are relatively few radical Muslim terrorists, and not all are even Muslim. I would be offended if every time some criminal that was raised Christian killed someone the news media presented it as terrorist Christian murders. If we demonize all Muslims it wonbt be long until Christians or Jews or some other religious group is next. It is funny the RW can be so sensitive to the war on Christmas or any other perceived or made up offensives against us Christians, but insist on being offensive as possible to everyone else.
If he was shouting that he was killing in the name of Christ, might that lead you to believe that he was killing in the name of Christ?
Classic Ben Stein massive pile of straw.
Sure. Let's look at his phrasing.
Why do you think he went with "fat" and "sweaty" and made the man 70? And why do you think he picked your daughter out? Pulling at emotional heartstrings. Trying to get you to picture Jabba the Hutt licking his lips while ogling YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL. It's nonsense.
Hilariously oversimplified. Supposedly Ben Stein is ignoring any nuance. Right wingers often do. See, "in the name of Allah" isn't sufficient detail. They want to know why. Why kill people. Why that club. Why target homosexuals. There's more to violence than "a book told him to." If you don't see that, I feel sorry for you.
No. They aren't. They're suggesting that easy access to tools that can cause serious harm contributes to the frequency and magnitude of these events. Have you ever seen a headline "50 killed by man with baseball bat?" In mass stabbings, the number of deaths is usually quite low. The tool matters, and how easy it is to get that tool matters. If we'd sold nuclear bombs for ten bucks at Wal-Mart we wouldn't have a country anymore.
So maybe, just maybe, we can make it a little harder for madmen, drug dealers, murderers, and terrorists to get bigger, more dangerous weapons. "BUT DEUCE," you immediately vomit onto message boards "CRIMINALS WILL STILL GET GUNS." No ****, sherlock. But a black market AR-15 in Australia can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Criminals can drop $15,000 on a handgun. It makes a difference. Are they still going to get guns? Yes. Are they still going to kill people? Yes. What, you have an option that stops all crime, do you? I'm all ears.
Words in a book don't make you into a murderer. Murderers use books as a justification. Sometimes. When the worst people in history didn't have a book, they just wrote one.
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