There are a million things on my mind, but animal rights is usually at the forefront. Since humans are animals, fighting for their rights is fighting for our rights as well, but there's a catch.
I fight to protect them for one reason, my rights to health and safety will never be achieved in this society so I fight for them, in turn I fight for me by proxy. Which is why I do no support spay and neuter.
Being transgendered in a world still healing from the damage done by religion is like walking a minefield just to buy bread. While we are attacked socially, we are also neglected medically.
So Target does something right, they are working toward gender neutral bathrooms, which is a step forward to making their stores safer for everyone, especially transgendered. But this us not a new, or novel, concept.
In the past there was no segregation for restrooms, even in Europe the segregation was never popular. But as a species we are fundamentally insane, we always have to blame the weaker or fewer people for all our problems.
Our species is also the only species to celebrate psychotic tendencies, even to elevate them to positions of power. Thanks to religion, psychotic behaviours are actually encouraged and considered divine.
Since gods are made by us, perhaps there is truth there, we created divinity therefore it would contain our social flaws. But religion contains only our flaws and none of our positive traits.
I have seen humans risk their lives to rescue other animals, as I have seen other animals rescue those of other species. A puma once adopted the fawn of a deer she had killed for sustenance, and she raised that fawn as her own, as if she felt guilty for orphaning it.
Wolves have commonly adopted other species into their packs, they even defend humans they regard as friends. Lions bond to humans who rescue them, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
Other apes rescue other animals, even whales will befriend dolphins and learn to work together. So what is wrong with us?
We can't even offer our own decent healthcare, safety, and piece of mind just because of an inconsequential difference.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
The Science of Science
The confusion about what science is has grown to epic proportions, even among those who do not deny scientific findings. First, we created science, it was not discovered nor taught to us by some outside force.
Science is a tool, a method of finding which claims are fact. It is not a secret, elite society, it is also not a collection of knowledge.
The first use for science was to weed out fraudulent claims of miracles made, the Catholic church developed the tool. Ironically, it worked too well and soon they discovered that there are no divine miracles, just a bunch of natural phenomenon.
So the church locked up all the "miracles" that were not yet debunked to keep the masses from questioning them, and regretted having created the most powerful tool. Of course they cannot deny the facts found by thus tool, and they don't, instead they just rule like a autonomous government, a boys club.
As for science, it became the standard method of discovery, in spite of the fact that it doesn't actually discover anything. There is the crux of it, scientists do the discovering, they notice some phenomenon or event then work to understand it.
To do that you need to know what is fact and what is not, such as the claim of DNA driving the traits of organisms. Once this claim or phenomenon is noticed it gets tested.
Now when we say tested we mean rigorous testing, but to make the tool work you need these tests verified. Enter the peer review process.
A scientist who has tested evidence, found it to be fact, then submits their evidence and the tests they performed. Then every scientist in that field does their best to find an inconsistency.
Tests are done to find flaws, not to prove anything, being unable to find a flaw in the evidence determines that the evidence is fact. Facts do not change, no matter what happens, they always remain fact, but what we think are facts can be found to be a phenomenon instead.
Phenomena are subjective, they can, and often do, change based on circumstances. Unlike facts, phenomena can appear as fact until one variable changes.
One phenomena that is often used as a grounds for many biological sciences is cellular mechanics. Cells usually behave a certain way, but only under certain conditions, changing the conditions changes the behavior, meaning there is no one fact of cellular mechanics, it is a phenomenon.
Another common phenomenon is planetary motion, while there are a lot of facts that can help predict the motions, by changing one influence by a fraction the motions can change drastically. This means that how they move is not a fact, but a lot of facts explain why they move the way they do.
The next aspect is the theory, the most misrepresented aspect of science. A theory is an explanation, yes, but it explains the interrelations of facts. No one bit of a theory depends on another, though they do influence the others.
This means that fact A will be a fact even if B is wrong. Thus you don't debunk theories, they are established relation and they are explanations that have produced workable results.
You can attempt to show that a fact is not a fact, by testing it then having others try to find flaws in these tests. But renown is important to prevent any of the clueless folks from poisoning the findings.
To accomplish this scientists base renown on honesty, integrity, and demonstration of knowledge. You must also fully understand the scientific method, one thing no creationist understands.
Now you know the grit of science, the work that must be put into it is not for the intellectually lazy, uneducated, or feint of heart. It's long hours, often banging your head against your desk, then many more hours listening to everyone else telling you where you went wrong, then repeat.
Science is a tool, a method of finding which claims are fact. It is not a secret, elite society, it is also not a collection of knowledge.
The first use for science was to weed out fraudulent claims of miracles made, the Catholic church developed the tool. Ironically, it worked too well and soon they discovered that there are no divine miracles, just a bunch of natural phenomenon.
So the church locked up all the "miracles" that were not yet debunked to keep the masses from questioning them, and regretted having created the most powerful tool. Of course they cannot deny the facts found by thus tool, and they don't, instead they just rule like a autonomous government, a boys club.
As for science, it became the standard method of discovery, in spite of the fact that it doesn't actually discover anything. There is the crux of it, scientists do the discovering, they notice some phenomenon or event then work to understand it.
To do that you need to know what is fact and what is not, such as the claim of DNA driving the traits of organisms. Once this claim or phenomenon is noticed it gets tested.
Now when we say tested we mean rigorous testing, but to make the tool work you need these tests verified. Enter the peer review process.
A scientist who has tested evidence, found it to be fact, then submits their evidence and the tests they performed. Then every scientist in that field does their best to find an inconsistency.
Tests are done to find flaws, not to prove anything, being unable to find a flaw in the evidence determines that the evidence is fact. Facts do not change, no matter what happens, they always remain fact, but what we think are facts can be found to be a phenomenon instead.
Phenomena are subjective, they can, and often do, change based on circumstances. Unlike facts, phenomena can appear as fact until one variable changes.
One phenomena that is often used as a grounds for many biological sciences is cellular mechanics. Cells usually behave a certain way, but only under certain conditions, changing the conditions changes the behavior, meaning there is no one fact of cellular mechanics, it is a phenomenon.
Another common phenomenon is planetary motion, while there are a lot of facts that can help predict the motions, by changing one influence by a fraction the motions can change drastically. This means that how they move is not a fact, but a lot of facts explain why they move the way they do.
The next aspect is the theory, the most misrepresented aspect of science. A theory is an explanation, yes, but it explains the interrelations of facts. No one bit of a theory depends on another, though they do influence the others.
This means that fact A will be a fact even if B is wrong. Thus you don't debunk theories, they are established relation and they are explanations that have produced workable results.
You can attempt to show that a fact is not a fact, by testing it then having others try to find flaws in these tests. But renown is important to prevent any of the clueless folks from poisoning the findings.
To accomplish this scientists base renown on honesty, integrity, and demonstration of knowledge. You must also fully understand the scientific method, one thing no creationist understands.
Now you know the grit of science, the work that must be put into it is not for the intellectually lazy, uneducated, or feint of heart. It's long hours, often banging your head against your desk, then many more hours listening to everyone else telling you where you went wrong, then repeat.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The Dangers Of Psychiatry
If you Google the origins of psychiatry you find many conflicting tales of how it was started by some such group or person, with the general consensus of it originating in the 1700's or 1800's. This sounds just like a church, right?
To make matters worse, the scientific method did not appear before the 1900's, at minimum a hundred years after psychiatry was established. Of course this does not, in itself, show that psychiatry is lacking in scientific evidence.
What psychiatry did is evidence of that, psychiatrists treated mental disorders as demonic possession before the more scientific discipline of psychology appeared. You read that right, psychiatry never opposed the unscientific, dogmatic, superstitions until they were no longer popular.
Even today we see many psychiatrists stating obvious lies, one being that homosexuality is a severe mental disorder. In the meantime, psychology has found answers, such as that homosexuality is not the problem.
Today we know for a fact that social persecution for things which cannot be controlled causes symptoms mimicking major mental disorders such as depression, a fact which psychiatry refuses to acknowledge. But, as with all dogma, many of the uneducated and indoctrinated masses refuse to see the problems inherent in this unscientific field.
So why do psychiatrists exist? Power.
Simple enough, their egos drive them to commit atrocities in the name of their horrific practices, such as running high voltage through the most sensitive organ, the organ that is you. They will have perfectly sane individuals declared unfit to care for themselves so they are legally allowed to force these people to become their guinea pigs.
We have discovered other uses for some of their mad experiments, however these real uses were not discovered by psychiatrists. Psychology works closely with neurology, resulting in scientific analysis of how the brain responds to such things, instead of torturing and even killing patients for their own egos.
The result is that we have found some great new tools in the horrendous experiments of psychiatry, but that is no excuse to send anyone to those gallows.
To make matters worse, the scientific method did not appear before the 1900's, at minimum a hundred years after psychiatry was established. Of course this does not, in itself, show that psychiatry is lacking in scientific evidence.
What psychiatry did is evidence of that, psychiatrists treated mental disorders as demonic possession before the more scientific discipline of psychology appeared. You read that right, psychiatry never opposed the unscientific, dogmatic, superstitions until they were no longer popular.
Even today we see many psychiatrists stating obvious lies, one being that homosexuality is a severe mental disorder. In the meantime, psychology has found answers, such as that homosexuality is not the problem.
Today we know for a fact that social persecution for things which cannot be controlled causes symptoms mimicking major mental disorders such as depression, a fact which psychiatry refuses to acknowledge. But, as with all dogma, many of the uneducated and indoctrinated masses refuse to see the problems inherent in this unscientific field.
So why do psychiatrists exist? Power.
Simple enough, their egos drive them to commit atrocities in the name of their horrific practices, such as running high voltage through the most sensitive organ, the organ that is you. They will have perfectly sane individuals declared unfit to care for themselves so they are legally allowed to force these people to become their guinea pigs.
We have discovered other uses for some of their mad experiments, however these real uses were not discovered by psychiatrists. Psychology works closely with neurology, resulting in scientific analysis of how the brain responds to such things, instead of torturing and even killing patients for their own egos.
The result is that we have found some great new tools in the horrendous experiments of psychiatry, but that is no excuse to send anyone to those gallows.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The Nature of Nature and Society
The natura world is glorious, strange, and fascinating, it bothers me when I see so many people who want to ignore it. It makes matters worse when you realize most people want to destroy it.
Then irony floods in when these same people insist that it's unnatural to want to modify your body to suit your psychological needs. These are the same people who insist that their dogma remain unquestioned.
I have had many claim to be atheist as if it somehow makes their dogma right, which is a non-sequitor as being atheist has nothing to do with the topic. Let's look at the most horrendous example, genital modification.
For those who are perfectly sane, genitalia is no different than any other organ. They serve the purpose of reproduction, but some have found pleasure in using them for recreation, which is their choice.
However, medical doctors force some to modify for no logical reason, then they refuse to allow others to voluntarily modify them. Transgendered people have a perfectly valid and sane reason for wanting the genitalia gone, to allow them to live their life without the constant glitch in their neural network interrupting them.
But doctors refuse to acknowledge this well known, scientifically demonstrated, fact on account of their dogma or profit. The end result is transgendered forced to live on taxpayers, costing states billions in medical, and being placed in danger by society.
Now many will think that they just have to pay for it like everyone else, but that is far from the truth. Medical doctors will refuse, even if there is a medical emergency and the transgendered patient has the money in hand, to remove the genitals or modify them in any way.
This is dogma, they make many excuses and invoke many fallacies to justify denying this basic right, then imprison the patient at the cost of the state under the guise of them being a danger to themselves. This is all based on the archaic church called psychiatry.
Psychiatry is often touted as scientific, but it is actually dogma that must be corrected by the truly scientific discipline of psychology. But society is slow to move forward and most people still think psychiatrists actually care about helping people.
So to get ones inconsequential organs removed, a cisgender person must present a life threatening situation, while a transgendered person must go through a long period of humiliation, abuse, and harassment only to be told some lame excuse as to why they can't get it done.
SRS is excessively hoarded by cisgender in the USA and most transgendered patients are denied for no logical reason. So we are forced by society to live off their table scraps and find ways to manipulate the system, even file million dollar lawsuits to at least have a chance at a decent life.
The cost of neglect for transgendered people in the USA is several thousand per year, per taxpayer. I alone account for the expenditure of $200,000 dollars at minimum per year, and I only need a $5,000 surgery to get back to work, which doctors refuse to do simply because it's also elective.
Then irony floods in when these same people insist that it's unnatural to want to modify your body to suit your psychological needs. These are the same people who insist that their dogma remain unquestioned.
I have had many claim to be atheist as if it somehow makes their dogma right, which is a non-sequitor as being atheist has nothing to do with the topic. Let's look at the most horrendous example, genital modification.
For those who are perfectly sane, genitalia is no different than any other organ. They serve the purpose of reproduction, but some have found pleasure in using them for recreation, which is their choice.
However, medical doctors force some to modify for no logical reason, then they refuse to allow others to voluntarily modify them. Transgendered people have a perfectly valid and sane reason for wanting the genitalia gone, to allow them to live their life without the constant glitch in their neural network interrupting them.
But doctors refuse to acknowledge this well known, scientifically demonstrated, fact on account of their dogma or profit. The end result is transgendered forced to live on taxpayers, costing states billions in medical, and being placed in danger by society.
Now many will think that they just have to pay for it like everyone else, but that is far from the truth. Medical doctors will refuse, even if there is a medical emergency and the transgendered patient has the money in hand, to remove the genitals or modify them in any way.
This is dogma, they make many excuses and invoke many fallacies to justify denying this basic right, then imprison the patient at the cost of the state under the guise of them being a danger to themselves. This is all based on the archaic church called psychiatry.
Psychiatry is often touted as scientific, but it is actually dogma that must be corrected by the truly scientific discipline of psychology. But society is slow to move forward and most people still think psychiatrists actually care about helping people.
So to get ones inconsequential organs removed, a cisgender person must present a life threatening situation, while a transgendered person must go through a long period of humiliation, abuse, and harassment only to be told some lame excuse as to why they can't get it done.
SRS is excessively hoarded by cisgender in the USA and most transgendered patients are denied for no logical reason. So we are forced by society to live off their table scraps and find ways to manipulate the system, even file million dollar lawsuits to at least have a chance at a decent life.
The cost of neglect for transgendered people in the USA is several thousand per year, per taxpayer. I alone account for the expenditure of $200,000 dollars at minimum per year, and I only need a $5,000 surgery to get back to work, which doctors refuse to do simply because it's also elective.
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Guns, Abortions, and Idiots Worshipping Gods
The flaw in this whole Planned Parenthood fiasco is not so much of a flaw. The Republicans have distracted all the nuts from the gun issue with this made up outrage that we have been successfully passing more restrictions on firearms.
I am confident that even those capable of understanding this will refuse to back down on their hot air spewing against planned Parenthood that they will never even read this. The Republicans have only themselves to blame, it was them who pushed Planned Parenthood to sell fetal tissue from the abortions they legalized, then they decided to recruit fanatics as their voter base.
No matter the topic, a fanatic will always focus on their fake problem, or displaced anger. I have even tried to sway some of the topics to other subjects, but they always resort to spouting the same lies about Planned Parenthood their tiny brains can grasp.
The really good thing is that while the Republicans are scrambling to repair the damage done by this hoax, the rest of the country us wresting the last of their power from them. We also now know the numbers of loyal voters, and those numbers spell doom for the party as a whole.
As we see the rest of the country moving forward into a future we are creating, the Republican and Tea parties are struggling to restore a past that never was. This means we are leaving them behind, and like slavery, they will become nothing more than a vanishing embarrassment of our species.
So, keep the anti-choice nuts focused on their doomed outrage, in the mean time our intelligent politicians are running successful campaigns against guns, religious entitlements, and inequality.
I am confident that even those capable of understanding this will refuse to back down on their hot air spewing against planned Parenthood that they will never even read this. The Republicans have only themselves to blame, it was them who pushed Planned Parenthood to sell fetal tissue from the abortions they legalized, then they decided to recruit fanatics as their voter base.
No matter the topic, a fanatic will always focus on their fake problem, or displaced anger. I have even tried to sway some of the topics to other subjects, but they always resort to spouting the same lies about Planned Parenthood their tiny brains can grasp.
The really good thing is that while the Republicans are scrambling to repair the damage done by this hoax, the rest of the country us wresting the last of their power from them. We also now know the numbers of loyal voters, and those numbers spell doom for the party as a whole.
As we see the rest of the country moving forward into a future we are creating, the Republican and Tea parties are struggling to restore a past that never was. This means we are leaving them behind, and like slavery, they will become nothing more than a vanishing embarrassment of our species.
So, keep the anti-choice nuts focused on their doomed outrage, in the mean time our intelligent politicians are running successful campaigns against guns, religious entitlements, and inequality.
Monday, August 3, 2015
Guns, Abortion, Common Sense
A fetus is not a baby, a baby is not a child, but the idiots who oppose healthcare will use the wrong term to describe a fetus as an attempt to play on emotions. This tactic is, by definition, terrorism.
It is a common tactic used by people who oppose health, freedom, and safety. To them, only they should make all the decisions for everyone else, sound familiar?
The same tactics are used by gun nuts, one common one is by cling your idea unpopular to try to scare you from voicing it. Ironically, they just show how insecure they are, they think that popularity makes something right.
Which is made more ironic as we notice that they are no longer even popular. From demonstrations of lacking education to the use of terrorist tactics, the right wing morons have made themselves irrelevant.
This is why we are trying to remove their ability to harm others, one not often ignored, as they are clearly incapable of making intelligent decisions on their own. If the anti-abortion idiots had a solid argument, they'd not need obviously fake images and terrorism to make a the argument.
Gun nuts have the same issue, often citing that criminals don't obey gun laws they out themselves as criminals, most have not undergone a real background check as the current laws require. Most gun nuts are obviously incapable of passing a psychological stability exam.
So why all the hype about these two topics? Control.
They tried to control people by banning one type of marriage, and they failed miserably because even our SCOTUS is beginning to see that troglodyte laws are damaging to our culture. So now they're in full fear mode.
But the anti-abortion is not about controlling women, it is about forcing more kids to be born so they can indoctrinate them by blaming everyone else for the kids' problems. They essentially let these kids suffer, then point their fingers at the mothers and convince the kids to raise arms against the system.
This makes abortion and guns their last bastion for abusing children to accomplish their own ends. Legal abortions means fewer children born into destitution, destitution can be used to easily sway people, as we have seen in the supporters of the Republicans, the ignorant and destitute are easily convinced of any crazy idea as long as you hold a tasty morsel in front of them as a distraction.
But the future is bright, kids today are not nearly as stupid as the past generations, they are also more educated. The modern kids born to these psychotic nuts are often silent on all matters until they grow up, then they turn on their own parents.
The parents are too stupid to realize that their kids are smarter than them, and so they incorrectly assume that their kids agree with them, silence is often complacency. But their silence is only because they're smart enough to know when to strike, we taught them that.
When I say we, I mean all generations before them, marketing for various products has always utilized timing. Our culture here is inundated with marketing, it is our culture, packaging, sales, catchy slogans and logos.
So our corporatism has served one great role in our culture, it prepared the USA to step forward today.
It is a common tactic used by people who oppose health, freedom, and safety. To them, only they should make all the decisions for everyone else, sound familiar?
The same tactics are used by gun nuts, one common one is by cling your idea unpopular to try to scare you from voicing it. Ironically, they just show how insecure they are, they think that popularity makes something right.
Which is made more ironic as we notice that they are no longer even popular. From demonstrations of lacking education to the use of terrorist tactics, the right wing morons have made themselves irrelevant.
This is why we are trying to remove their ability to harm others, one not often ignored, as they are clearly incapable of making intelligent decisions on their own. If the anti-abortion idiots had a solid argument, they'd not need obviously fake images and terrorism to make a the argument.
Gun nuts have the same issue, often citing that criminals don't obey gun laws they out themselves as criminals, most have not undergone a real background check as the current laws require. Most gun nuts are obviously incapable of passing a psychological stability exam.
So why all the hype about these two topics? Control.
They tried to control people by banning one type of marriage, and they failed miserably because even our SCOTUS is beginning to see that troglodyte laws are damaging to our culture. So now they're in full fear mode.
But the anti-abortion is not about controlling women, it is about forcing more kids to be born so they can indoctrinate them by blaming everyone else for the kids' problems. They essentially let these kids suffer, then point their fingers at the mothers and convince the kids to raise arms against the system.
This makes abortion and guns their last bastion for abusing children to accomplish their own ends. Legal abortions means fewer children born into destitution, destitution can be used to easily sway people, as we have seen in the supporters of the Republicans, the ignorant and destitute are easily convinced of any crazy idea as long as you hold a tasty morsel in front of them as a distraction.
But the future is bright, kids today are not nearly as stupid as the past generations, they are also more educated. The modern kids born to these psychotic nuts are often silent on all matters until they grow up, then they turn on their own parents.
The parents are too stupid to realize that their kids are smarter than them, and so they incorrectly assume that their kids agree with them, silence is often complacency. But their silence is only because they're smart enough to know when to strike, we taught them that.
When I say we, I mean all generations before them, marketing for various products has always utilized timing. Our culture here is inundated with marketing, it is our culture, packaging, sales, catchy slogans and logos.
So our corporatism has served one great role in our culture, it prepared the USA to step forward today.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Gun Sense Is Sanity
The entire argument from gun nuts is "it's mine, you can't take it." Have pity on them, they have been duped by a masterful advertisement campaign, one that convinced these nuts that everyone was the enemy and that anyone who trues to help them is really out to get them.
Let's destroy their arguments with some easily verified and undeniable points that will force them into the raving lunatic rants sooner, so then you can just have fun mocking them.
We shall begin with the constitution, the first AMENDMENT, they always fail to notice that the law was actually a change made to the constitution of the USA. If a change was made to it once, it can be changed again, and we do change those laws a lot.
The term "unconstitutional" is often thrown about, but constitutional law is not actually in the constitution and requires a lot of deliberation to make a definitive statement as to what is against that. The thing is, the constitution is our lower over the government, like a contract, stating that the government itself cannot make laws opposing these principles that the voters have chosen as integral.
That means, we have the right and power to change those amendments or over rule them, entities that are not individual persons are not allowed to oppose the constitutional laws. This finer point is often ignored by the NRA nuts, as well as many corporations.
So there goes that argument against gun sense in a puff of legal facts. The next one is a bit more fun, it makes their heads explode.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people," which is why we are pushing to regulate who can own them. The fact of the matter is that the laws for regulation already exist, and many gun nuts are utilizing the loopholes we want to close to illegally obtain a gun.
So yes, criminals do not obey the law, that is why they fear the law being enforced properly. The vast majority of those complaining about regulation are batshit crazy and obviously a danger to society.
But the NRA has convinced the few sane gun owners that the nuts don't exist. Yes, the sane ones are gullible, but most voters are very gullible, the gun sense crowd often cites correlation fallacies that they believe are fact.
So the gullibility is on both sides, but one side won't make it possible for some nut to put me in the cross hairs of a high powered rifle just beside I'm transgendered. So I'm inclined to ignore the nuts on my side for that one life saving reason.
The worst argument I have heard is that guns are just tools. This is completely fallacious, guns are weapons, weapons are not tools.
Weapons are made only to destroy, they have no other use or purpose. Tools are made to assist us in improving our species, tools are made for building and helping.
Just because a tool can be used to kill does not negate the fact that it was not made for such a purpose. But let's compare the knife against the gun for argument's sake.
A knife has a very limited range, plus the fastest it can be drawn and readied is 15 seconds, a gun can exceed running distance and be drawn and readied in less than 5 seconds. A knife wound is rarely fatal on it's own, it hurts like hell but usually does not result in death, medical technology is so awesome.
A bullet wound is also not always fatal on it's own, however most shootings involve a rapid fire and the culmination of wounds decreases your chances of survival exponentially. Also, a bullet is more likely to penetrate vital organs, increasing the chances of a fatal wound from a single round to equate to a hundred stabbing wounds from a knife.
The reason for this extreme difference is obvious, the knife was not made to kill but the gun was. So next time they try these pathetic arguments remember, they're psychotic personalities incapable of rational thought.
Let's destroy their arguments with some easily verified and undeniable points that will force them into the raving lunatic rants sooner, so then you can just have fun mocking them.
We shall begin with the constitution, the first AMENDMENT, they always fail to notice that the law was actually a change made to the constitution of the USA. If a change was made to it once, it can be changed again, and we do change those laws a lot.
The term "unconstitutional" is often thrown about, but constitutional law is not actually in the constitution and requires a lot of deliberation to make a definitive statement as to what is against that. The thing is, the constitution is our lower over the government, like a contract, stating that the government itself cannot make laws opposing these principles that the voters have chosen as integral.
That means, we have the right and power to change those amendments or over rule them, entities that are not individual persons are not allowed to oppose the constitutional laws. This finer point is often ignored by the NRA nuts, as well as many corporations.
So there goes that argument against gun sense in a puff of legal facts. The next one is a bit more fun, it makes their heads explode.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people," which is why we are pushing to regulate who can own them. The fact of the matter is that the laws for regulation already exist, and many gun nuts are utilizing the loopholes we want to close to illegally obtain a gun.
So yes, criminals do not obey the law, that is why they fear the law being enforced properly. The vast majority of those complaining about regulation are batshit crazy and obviously a danger to society.
But the NRA has convinced the few sane gun owners that the nuts don't exist. Yes, the sane ones are gullible, but most voters are very gullible, the gun sense crowd often cites correlation fallacies that they believe are fact.
So the gullibility is on both sides, but one side won't make it possible for some nut to put me in the cross hairs of a high powered rifle just beside I'm transgendered. So I'm inclined to ignore the nuts on my side for that one life saving reason.
The worst argument I have heard is that guns are just tools. This is completely fallacious, guns are weapons, weapons are not tools.
Weapons are made only to destroy, they have no other use or purpose. Tools are made to assist us in improving our species, tools are made for building and helping.
Just because a tool can be used to kill does not negate the fact that it was not made for such a purpose. But let's compare the knife against the gun for argument's sake.
A knife has a very limited range, plus the fastest it can be drawn and readied is 15 seconds, a gun can exceed running distance and be drawn and readied in less than 5 seconds. A knife wound is rarely fatal on it's own, it hurts like hell but usually does not result in death, medical technology is so awesome.
A bullet wound is also not always fatal on it's own, however most shootings involve a rapid fire and the culmination of wounds decreases your chances of survival exponentially. Also, a bullet is more likely to penetrate vital organs, increasing the chances of a fatal wound from a single round to equate to a hundred stabbing wounds from a knife.
The reason for this extreme difference is obvious, the knife was not made to kill but the gun was. So next time they try these pathetic arguments remember, they're psychotic personalities incapable of rational thought.
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