What America’s Love Affair with Guns Says About Us
There are people who believe that an armed society is a safer and therefore better society.
One can argue about the meaning of “better.” But there can be no equivocation on the word “safer,” and anyone with a 4th grade command of mathematics and access to the graph below can explain that.
The author of the meme here is making a more subtle point. If the level of courtesy I display to those around me is a function of the fact that I can shoot him to death if he does something that annoys me, and he can do the same to me, is it at all correct to say that either one of us is “polite?”
If our only claim to calling ourselves civilized is our capacity and willingness to kill one another, the precise opposite is closer: we are both savages.
As suggested at left, some people are more qualified to present their views on certain subjects than others.
It was only a few years ago that the Republican party in the United States was based, at least loosely, around the principles of the traditional conservatives, things like small government, personal responsibility, deregulation, and whites-only country clubs. Of course, it had its slightly hidden agenda of less noble things like warmongering, unchecked gun rights, KKK-style racism, and the rest, but they weren’t overt parts of the package.
Here’s a nifty new 
When we think of Texas, we tend to call to mind tough-minded ranchers, pickup trucks with gun racks, cowboy boots, death penalty advocates, high school football as a virtual religion, and perhaps a few oil tycoons–each one a societal element that tends to vote Republican. 
Are you trying to tell me that an actual educator will be functioning as Biden’s Secretary of Education? We were just getting used to that post being held by a person with no background in the subject, whose only qualifications were her generous donation to Trump’s election campaign and her commitment to work tirelessly to make our public schools as poor and worthless as she possibly could.
What a disappointment. Pathological liars like Trump can never be trusted to tell the truth, but wouldn’t it have been nice if, just this once…….
I was a young boy in 1964, but old enough to remember Barry Goldwater and the conservative ideals he represented. I didn’t agree with him, but I had a great deal of respect for his intelligence, his honesty, and his sincerity.
