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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans are a different breed aren't they?
I personally know some Republicans who would let their own kids starve to death or die from lack of health care if they thought doing that would get President Obama out of the White House. It would be worth it to them. Just part of politics to them. So you can just imagine what they think about us.
They seem to all have a weird fascination with death and killing. Couple years ago I was involved in a small bass fishing contest. We had to draw names out of a hat to find out who we would be fishing with and I got matched up with one of these goof balls in the same boat for a few hours.
I looked into the clear water a few feet from the boat and I seen a nice sized bass and pointed it out to the other guy. He seen it and started screaming, "Kill it!", like he was unable to control himself. We were fishing, not hunting.
And I think the gun thing with a lot of them is the gun is their final option to blow their own brains out if things ever get to bad for them. I have watched some of them holding guns and it is almost seems like they are having some kind of religious or spiritual experience with it. They don't hold it and look at it like the tool it is. They hold it like it gives them some kind of control over their destiny.
Weird people.
Don
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Initech
(100,103 posts)unblock
(52,326 posts)not all gun owners are gun fetishists, of course, but there are definitely some gun fetishists out there.
full of fantasies about some glorious life or death moment where they triumph over evil.
those people don't have guns for self-defense because they're not looking to avoid, evade, neutralize, incapacite, or otherwise survive a confrontation without any loss to themselves. rather, they're spoiling for a fight -- searching and hoping for that situation where they get to justifiably kill someone and hopefully have everyone cheer and admire them.
but when you spend a lot of mental energy searching and hoping for such a situation to arise, it becomes tempting, even if subconsciously, to manipulate events or perceptions to gain that sense of justification....
some of it's the southern/wild west thing, some of it's the gun culture, and some of it's hellfire christianity's focus on death (jesus's death and resurection, judgement at the pearly gates, the rapture, etc.)
siligut
(12,272 posts)Everything with them is extreme.