moralist

Becoming offended is always a free choice... so I leave that to the liberals since it is an integral part of their irrational feelings based ideology.

I just want to be clear here. Kate's comments were directed to me and I'm not in the least bit offended or insulted even though I don't share her liberal views.

In real life, Keifer Sutherlin is a highly skilled marksman, and in "24" he is an excellent teacher of how to handle and fire sidearms.

In reality, the feminised liberal view is the dominant approach to firearms. The majority who are hysterically screeching for more gun control are having their way. God forbid. If I was your interpretation of an Objectivist, I'd be living in Europe. I agree. Americanism is not Objectivism as you define it.

The alternative was just an "outside the box" suggestion from my own personal experience. I'm licensed without any schooling. When you say "very likely doesn't", it means that unlikely options do exist. In life, some of the most interesting challenging and adventurous experiences are taking unlikely options. The road less traveled is never for everyone... only for a few. I'm armed.

I can tell you've never served in the Military. You know nothing about weapons. Not in this weak feminised liberal society which created gun free zones as perfect fertile killing fields full of helpless victims for evil people to murder with impunity. That's good, because you should be the last person on earth to ever be allowed to carry a gun. We're in agreement there. That system of checks and balances actually works very well. You obviously didn't know that the murderer used his Mother's guns. That's the liberal view on guns. The American view is the proper use of guns is for defending innocent life.

I can't imagine a good reason why anyone would ever want to. Each individual independent responsible American should be like a "micro-nation" with their own useful industry, their own treasury, and being their own well armed militia.

I'm an amateur with no schooling or degree who enjoys mechanical engineering as a hobby. The latest design project I've been working on is this intake manifold on my engine. It's a completely different design from the original manifold... I think you chose a really cool field where you can truly benefit Americans. Arms are constantly evolving, and engineers are needed to keep pushing the envelope.

Either way... neither exists. Wouldn't an Objectivist be well equipped to live in a non-Objectivist world? I wouldn't know as I'm technically not one even though I utilize Ayn Rand's Capitalist principles in business. Civilians with thermonuclear devices are also a fantasy. The only longshot might be some very well funded Islamic terrorists, and if anyone thinks that a government ban would keep them away from one is hallucinating.

Why ignore dealing with murderers blinded by the fixation on guns? Why strain at the gnat while swallowing the camel? That school murder spree would have been mitigated at the very least if just one adult had carried a sidearm as they should. ...and what will you use to protect yourself from the non-Objectivists? Don't you realize that Objectivists are a tiny splinter minority? Your utopian fantasy does not match the real world. It seems to me that Objectivists would be far better served by learning how to live in the reality of a non-Objectivist world. And what will you use to protect yourself from those for whom self defense is not the only way to use force? Guns are already well regulated by background checks. And what will you use to protect yourself from others who have nuclear weapons?

The term "is like" means similar to not identical. Blaming inanimate guns for violence is indeed as silly as blaming inanimate spoons for Obesity. If only one appears irrational to you... why is the not the other? When an animate gun is no more likely to cause violence than an equally inanimate spoon is to cause obesity. Both are merely amoral tools which can be used both for beneficial and detrimental purposes, wholly dependent upon the actions of the user.

If you honestly believe that is true, how do you account for your irrational fixation on blaming amoral inanimate objects?

It's good to see a tail succeed in wagging the dog.

Of course there are cultures which are based upon believing in lies. One glaring flaw in our culture is irrational belief in the lie that inanimate objects cause evil... when the simple truth is that only people can cause evil.

What I said is either confirmed or dismissed by your own personal observation of the world. That's your final arbitor. It's everyone's own free choice to agree or disagree with the popular social collective consensus of the narcoculture.

Scizophrenia caused by the immorality of drug use. Paranoia caused by an immorally violated Conscience. Depression caused by the immoral failure to control irrational anger.

It is a moral issue.

I did say what I meant... that society in declaring evil behavior a disease to be treated with drugs absolves evil people of taking personal responsibility for their own immoral behavior.

Sorry for the misattribution. It's beyond editing now.

It is a quality of businesses to be more motivated by profit than respectors of ideology. I do not consider this to be a negative but just a fact of life. Why would any businessmen be foolish enough to allow themselves to be endlessly milked by the government?

As do I. Businesses have been leaving completely Democrat controlled California for years to escape government taxation regulation and litigation. I call it the Atlas Shrugged Effect.

(shrug) There's no law which states I must agree with your interpretation of what your feelings tell you Ayn Rand's view is. It's differences which make life interesting, not similarities. Of course. Never let a calamity go to waste. Do you realize that those who share your foolish view of blaming inanimate objects instead of evil people have had their way for many years. You have had your way in creating the fertile slaughter grounds of gun free zones, where evil people can freely murder with impunity. You and your kind have had your way in creating a weak immoral feminised society which produces emasculated angry males instead of American men. So just what did you expect would happen?

Thanks for the heads up, Nicky. I'm new here, and didn't realize to what she was referring. It's a common practice to blame inanimate objects for evil while excusing people's evil behavior as being a disease over which they had no control. To use a saying that's been going around lately. Blaming guns for violence is like blaming spoons for obesity. It is each individual American's Constitutional duty to be their own well armed militia.

I'm saying that drugs (psychotropics for example) frequently make things worse. Immoral people love it when their evil behavior is declared a physical or mental ailment which needs to be treated with drugs, because it absolves them of taking any personal responsibility for their own behavior. Once set free from moral accountability, they can now express the evil inside of them... I rest my case.

What an irrefutable damnation of the popular narcoculture. I noticed that video was produced by the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights which belongs to the Scientology organization. Although I do not subscribe to their beliefs, on this particular issue they are spot on.