Comments on: The ‘No Guns’ Sign Insult – What if the Signs Read No Jews?

By: Macho Duck

Macho Duck — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:55:21 +0000

Have you noticed how adolescent the majority of responses are from the anti-rights crowd? Adolescence is that period of life when we’re just beginning to think critically but still use feelings and self orientation predominately. Stupid jokes, observations, and analogies predominate. Thinking, what there is of it, is oriented through the lens of the self. “If I had a gun I might be immature enough to pull it out of my pocket and shoot someone without valid reason, therefore you need to have your rights curtailed.”

While there is no parallel between being a Jew in Stone’s silly analogy, and choosing to exercise one’s rights, there is a parallel. Both are the subjects of bigotry. Both forms of prejudice, anti-racial (or anti-ethnic) and anti-gun are arrived at by attributing characteristics to the individual based on assumptions about some collective which may or may not include the subject of the bigotry.

Thanks to the news and the TV crime shows, the average person might come to believe that only criminals and cops carry guns. Thus we have ready-made bias for people who don’t think things through. Changing their thinking is why I open carry.

By: Stone Paris

Stone Paris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:02:46 +0000

It is in no way the same. And I am using humor to make the point easier for someone to take. Someone like you “Silent Majority” i.e. anonymous, I put it out there, and am ready to take the heat of opposite positions. But, you don’t.

Gun ownership is a choice a person makes. Myself, I choose to own guns. If businesses decide they don’t want guns in their establishments, that is their choice. Shop elsewhere.

Jewish/Black, not a choice. There are protections in place for religion and ethnicity for a reason. If they decide they don’t want Jews/Blacks in their establishments, that is discrimination, as they have no recourse as to being Jewish/Black.

The article fails to make it’s point, because the analogy is flawed. There is no logic in it. It is like saying 2+2=7

Keep arguing your side if you choose, however, it ain’t discrimination.

By: Silent Majority

Silent Majority — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:35 +0000

Stone you are either very stupid or this is a bad attempt at humor.

The point of the article is discrimination against gun owners is the same as discrimination against race or censorship of free speech….what don’t you get?

By: Stone Paris

Stone Paris — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:38:37 +0000

OK, my only problem here is, if I pull a Jew out of my pocket and point it at someone, and pull his arm, it won’t kill them.

I am a member of the NRA, Pro 2A, Libertarian thinker, but your analogy is weak, because Jews don’t travel at 1800fps, and don’t fit in my pocket, and haven’t been used in wars or hunting or police actions that I am aware of.