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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Thankful For Social Media

What am I thankful for today? Social media. Why?

Remember back about 20 years ago when cigarettes were generally accepted? Many of my friends smoked and, while people knew it was bad for them, they still did it without much of a social stigma.

But now there is a pretty big stigma and people that smoke are generally thought of as white trash and really pretty dumb. Sure, there were laws passed on cigarettes and higher taxes but the pushing out of normality regarding cigarettes was generally a cultural shift. Everyone goes outside, even in their own homes, to smoke. People that smoked were generally older and some of them died. Younger people either quite or didn't pick up the habit. In short, we grew out of it. And that's exactly what's going to happen in the next twenty years with guns.

In fact, with social media like Facebook and Twitter, it's going to happen much sooner. We are going to grow out of Gun Cult thinking and into a more rational approach to the (very much limited) 2nd amendment. The recent revelations about Adam Lanza show that we don't have a choice. The annual culling of our citizens is going to stop and it will be because of the new media.

Thanks, new media!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are going to grow out of Gun Cult thinking and into a more rational approach to the (very much limited) 2nd amendment.

Mark's idea of "rational": If you give up your ability to defend yourself, they won't hurt you!

You really are something else, Mark. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.

Anonymous said...

Is the Constitution law? (323 days and counting) (See also)

Anonymous said...

Even Joe Biden admits that the administration's gun control actions won't stop the shootings. So why do those things? (311 days and counting)

Anonymous said...

Given your reasoning that any "inconvenient" check and balance can now be discarded to deal with the current crisis du jour, what makes tyranny Not Possible in this country? (291 days and counting)

Anonymous said...

Since the leaders of the Democrat's effort to implement universal background checks say that "any bill without a records provision would be as toothless as an honor system", do you still assert that "[n]o one is talking about universal registration" and/or that it can be implemented without registration? (275 days and counting)

GuardDuck said...

And that's exactly what's going to happen in the next twenty years with guns.

Yeah, except the anti-cigatette side had facts on their side. The anti-gun side doesn't.

the (very much limited) 2nd amendment

You know how I know you don't understand the words written in the Heller decision? Because you say you agree with it.....

Larry said...

This must be what be what Marxadelphia means by "social stigma": The Gun-Control Movement’s Thug Tactics in Colorado.

The implicit threat in the flyers that by signing the recall petition, your name will become a matter of public record is a particularly nice touch. Not potentially intimidating at all, no sirree, Bob. They can go fuck themselves. The gun controllers are losing by significant margins despite outspending gun rights advocates by eight-to-fucking-one.