****This is an incomplete post I started a while back. Its time for another new shift and focus. But I figured I would let this cat out of the bag!
First Post following the new direction I would like to go with this! I promise to be more tame 😂
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One of my favorite Jeff Foxworthy memes. It's one of my favorites because its so darn true!
Just go into any "politically charged" news story, and comment in the opposition to any point made. It's both funny and sad, because there is no such thing allowed these days as being allowed to THINK for yourself, and have an opinion different than someone else.
I can't go a day with out being called a snow flake or a Nazi, It's more fun when I get called both in the same day. Bonus points if its within the same comment thread!While its funny, it's also a sad, and despicable side to the state of our nation, and people as a whole.
Middle Ground, common sense, logic, compassion for others, all seems to have gone out the window. We are polarized more than ever, and over the past 12 years its gotten worse. No that is not a blame on Obama, but an unfortunate parallel.
His election seems to have drawn out more and more hate groups and individuals who will show their true colors. Trumps election seems to have opened the flood gates, and what was a steady trickle, is now a full on raging river of bigotry and hate!
People only want one side or the other, they talk of compromise, yet refuse to listen to the solutions and proposals of the other.
Take gun control for example. in general, "the left" wants all of certain weapons banned, stricter laws, etc. "The right" wants none of that. Both sides constantly ignore REAL facts and resort to emotions and childish behavior, tantrums and the like.
What the left fails to realize, we really do have a lot of laws already in the books regarding gun control.Federal, State and Local. Many were willing concessions, which depending on your interpretations of state and federal constitutions, could be considered violations. We allow these things, like background checks, because we also do not want to see guns in the hands of dangerous or violent people.
Many times the laws are not properly enforced. Such as we saw with the Stone-man Douglass Shooting, how many times was this kid checked out by the FBI? Knowing this kid was suffering since his parents died, why was no one helping him sort through his emotions and getting him the help he clearly needed?
What laws could have stopped shootings when the gun was legally owned, and there was not red-flag issues at the time of purchase? None, especially when the biggest law broken was ignoring a big sign that says "gun free zone". A deranged person that hell bent on doing harm will do it by any means necessary.
The right CONSTANTLY attacks the left for any call of gun control. Even common sense things, like finding any possible loopholes, and making the buying process uniform. There are many loopholes where a person could technically go to one state with more lax policies and procedures, then transport that gun across state lines. They only see things as "being taken away", when in reality no one is physically
This John Stossel video
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