Dukasaur wrote:mookiemcgee wrote:jimboston wrote:Can someone translate Confed for me?
I canāt read this shit.
Confused Confed thinks the shooter and his parents were liberals who have influenced the media to be biased towards their cause.
Seems to me the evidence points in exactly the opposite direction.
There was no overt political allegiance, but these people personify conservative beliefs. They knew their son was likely to harm someone, but they cared about his rights more than what might happen to others.
Liberals generally think about their own actions in view of how they will impact others.
Putting your own rights ahead of others is pretty much the conservative ideal.
This merely puts more divisiveness in the discussion.
To generalize, as Duk attempts to do, I will say liberalsā appeals are based on emotions and conservativesā appeals are based on facts.
Conservatives do not advocate killing of innocents, which, based on what little we know, is the only motivation we know of in this case. Conservatives, as least those who are not extremists, do not advocate killing of someone to resolve issues. The 15-year-old killer "Lawyered up" so we know little of his motivation(s) at this point. To blame these killings on misconstrued conservative values is misleading and is not supported by the evidence so far.
The father bought a gun for his 15-year-old son (which, imo, is much too young to be in possession of a gun) and this is a very irresponsible act, whether he is a liberal, conservative, or apolitical.
For the mother to tell the boy to not get caught is also irresponsible. Both parents ignored the warning signs that their son may be a killer. We do not know why the gun was purchased for the boy, only that the boy wanted one and the irresponsible parents saw NO danger of this action.
Who is to blame will be debated as this case goes (or cases go) to trial. NOW to put a spin on this, we will hear lots of gun control advocates warn us of the dangers of guns. As I have already stated, there are too many guns in America. And there are too many guns in the hands of criminals and crazy and/or angry persons.