When I was a youngster, I was teased a lot about my weight. I remember chasing one particular boy almost every day in Grade 7 as he chanted "fat Beverly Akerman." I never caught him, probably because, being heavy, I was too slow. I hadn’t thought of this as bullying before; but of course, that’s what it was, and certainly it marked me. It’s one of many experiences that made me the compassionate person I hope I am...Yeah, real compassionate.
To me, the answer is simple: no more guns.
Tell me, Beverly: in order to enforce your "compassion," how many of your countrymen who would defy you are you willing to have agents of the state kill or imprison, you dull-witted tool?
You're still "too slow." Don't you have a cud to chew or something?
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Perhaps if some of Beverly's weight had been in brain matter. She could very well have been able to form a rational thought....
This is a classic case of projection.
Because of her troubled youth and low self esteem, she doesn't trust herself with a weapon because there's no telling who she might use it against if they upset her.
She CAN'T be abnormal, so, obviously, everyone else in the world is just as unbalanced as she knows herself to be and, therefore, must be disarmed.
I don't know 'bout projection.
I'd guess it's more that she's jest usin' a typical nanny-tactic ... proclaiming one opinion as a basis for another ... yet the two are nearly wholly unrelated.
"As monkeys around the world are likely to start throwing hand-grenades about, it is therefore necessary that we need microwaveable popcorn with chocolate sauce already in the packet."
Simply saying it, makes it so. Seeing it in-print, only adds to its validity. That it's on the internet, means thousands may be fortunate 'nuff to benefit from its inherent wisdom.
"To me, the answer is simple: no more guns."
She has no comprehension of the difference between simple and simplistic - simpletons are like that.
So - while Fat Bev was chasing some kid who used language - instead of violence - to harass her, she tried in vain to knock the crap out of him.
Who was the bully?
Taunting with words can be just as cruel as beating someone up, anon. #2. What bugs me is that Beverly wants to turn around and use government to bully gun owners who have done nothing to her. Hypocrtitical, if you ask me.
I dunno, Crotalus, I've been taunted and I've been kicked pretty good in the...., and of the two experiences, I think there's a lot of truth to that old saying about sticks and stones...
'Course a broken heart--now that's something altogether different...
Fortunately, as the clowns observed about elephants in "Dumbo," I'm made of rubber and have no feelings.
i was bullied mercilessly through much of my youth, too (i was one of the socially inept nerds) but somehow that didn't turn me into any homicidal maniac. nor did it leave me with any lingering, unreasonable need to infantilize others by disarming them.
i do vividly remember realizing, one day in junior high, that it was a good thing i didn't have access to guns because i had such a long list of people i wanted dead. late 1980's, sometime, that was. fortunately, not too long after that point i grew up, left town, and got a real life. some people evidently never do...
last anon, but that is because you didn't have everyone telling you that you were victim.
I had my fair share, some other people's shares as well.
Like you said, at some point you just grow up, or figure out that those people aren't worth your time and move on. I still sometimes wish they had the living crap kicked out of them, but not often, they just aren't worth it...
Until they get a soapbox and megaphone like this witch, and the rest of the people who never figured out the whole move on thing. Oddly enough, many of them have chosen to adopt that as their mantra. (as evidenced by the outright lunacy of sites like moveon.org) And many of them have landed in positions of power over others where they take out their twisted grudges on the rest of us. Those people, I want a really big heavy boot for.
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