The editor of The Baltimore Examiner was arrested and charged with threatening his next-door neighbors with a shotgun, police said Thursday.
No! Not The Baltimore Examiner that editorialized:
Now, there’s a generation of young people who simply reach for the gun when they feel they’ve been slighted.
Not The Baltimore Examiner that admitted:
In 2002 the entire Dawson family — Carnell and Angela and their five children — were murdered in their city home for standing up to drug dealers in their neighborhood. And the state’s highest court ruled earlier this month that relatives could not sue the city for failing to protect the family, who placed 109 calls to 911 or 311 between Jan. 1, 2000, and Oct. 16, 2002, about illegal activity in their neighborhood.
While the crime was horrible, police must not be held criminally liable for failing to prevent murders.
"Authorized journalists" certainly have no problem advocating you and I can't be trusted with a gun. I wonder how much of that is projection--because they know they can't trust themselves?
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Of course the irony is wasted on the gun control set.
They just see it validation of their way of thinking...
projection – unconsciously projecting one's own unacceptable feelings onto other people, so that one doesn't have to own them
Wow...good things antis don't own guns, they sure screech about "streets running red with blood" a lot.
I think the projection analysis is right on. Here's a quote from Raging Against Self Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality:
"In my experience, the common thread in anti-gun people is rage. Either anti-gun people harbor more rage than others, or they're less able to cope with it appropriately. Because they can't handle their own feelings of rage, they are forced to use defense mechanisms in an unhealthy manner. Because they wrongly perceive others as seeking to harm them, they advocate the disarmament of ordinary people who have no desire to harm anyone."
When are we going to criminalize hypocrisy?
We denounce it all the time, but we never move to make it illegal. Isn't that hypocritical of us, to denounce something all the time, but never act against it?
We're such hypocrites that we're even hypocritical about hypocrisy itself.
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