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Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure
(02-22-2018, 05:10 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:
(02-22-2018, 12:09 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I just heard Wayne LaPierre at a televised speech at the American Conservative Political Conference -- or whatever the cult is called -- lashing out at every known living liberal (especially Barack Obama) and of course 'European Socialists' who fail to believe in unfettered capitalism as the truest expression of freedom. He even suggested a means of preventing school massacres -- armed guards. I presume lots of them, and that of course would require the sale of more firearms, the unstated but easily-discerned objective of the NRA --even more gun sales. How convenient!

Yeah, sure. Living in an armed camp in which the government has the means of enforcing the harshest manifestations of plutocracy (and he had effusive praise for President Trump)  is the definitive security and freedom. 
 
The millennials grew up in the social media age.  They have a different view of the right to communicate, which includes the right to have a cell phone, to access their friends at any moment.  Boomers and other older generations simply do not understand.  For the most part this ability to communicate is a plus.  Their generation is the most connected of all time.
Quote:The GI generation grew up in an age of mass media that homogenized experiences -- books, feature films, and phonograph records. Publishing houses, record companies, and film studios could determine based on profitability alone what gets out and what does not. Maximal profits came from mass output of the same thing, so that people in San Francisco and Baltimore could read the same books, watch the same movies, and listen to the same music. So who was bigger -- Caruso or Pavarotti? Caruso -- because at one time he was the only tenor available on the gramophone. Then came radio about when the first GIs were reaching young adulthood and the last GIs were being born. Then there could be some regional differences for a short time, but by the 1930s radio started to have homogenizing networks.

Communications were heavily-capitalized businesses, and heavily-capitalized businesses in their infancy offer little variety.


Quote:It also enables clique behavior.  Those established in cliques can exclude the most abnormal or reclusive among them, can if they choose institute abuse.  The Second Amendment has always existed, though it has not always been honored.  The problem is in increasing the separation between the established cliques and the loners.  The loners are hitting back as they can.

The Internet allows me to play as if I owned a TV or radio station without spending the money  -- but without getting a revenue stream.  I can be an editorial writer, a DJ, or an artist. I can rotate my roles to fit a fantasy that I have influence over others. It can fit the quirks that make me an unpleasant person. If I lead you to a video of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, then my often-unpleasant personality goes into the background.

With smart phones and tablets, we get a device that is a still and video camera, a phone, and a computer terminal. Everyone can send messages and images as if he were CBS News in the centralizing era in which Walter Cronkite ended his news program with "And that's the way it is".

The Second Amendment exists. It is not written as a gun-rights amendment would have been written at any time after the 1860s with a non-discrimination clause. It does not, as does the 18th Amendment, give the states the right to prohibit people from importing firearms into those states in violation of the states' laws. People intent on committing crimes who find that their state will not be allowed to buy a firearm in a Wal-Mart in their state to travel 200 miles or so to a Wal-Mart in another state to buy one. Moving with a firearm? Get a permit that requires you to possess a firearm in both states. 


Quote:Perhaps this is a Millennial problem?  

It's also an opportunity. Every opportunity has its risks.

Quote:Red and blue are not agreeing on gun laws.  The problem of lone nuts, though, is real and not going away.  If the problem is within Millennial culture, changing the gun laws will not help, will not change the very human dynamic of the technology enhance ability to reject the one who doesn't fit.

This is a Crisis Era, and one side will make the other side irrelevant in the contest of ideas. The Red side has the power of wealth behind it. The Blue side has reason and creativity behind it. By 2030 we will have a consensus in which 95% of the people exist solely to enrich and pamper a Master Class nearly as exploitative as planters of the ante-bellum South, or in which we have a system in which everyone has a chance and does well unless he really screws up. If that seems too stark -- that is how things were to be decided in the West as a whole by 1950. Workers would have been serfs had the Axis won. 

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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RE: Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure - by pbrower2a - 02-23-2018, 11:25 AM

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