A case study in a sensitive amygdala that cannot relevance weigh:
As the killer stood before him, Judge Kenneth Walker couldn’t stay silent.
“If I could I would take all the guns in America, put them on big barges and go dump them in the ocean,” the judge told the defendant. “Nobody would have a gun. Not police, not security, not anybody. We should eliminate all of them. We could save 33,000 people a year if we didn’t have guns in this country…”
“Australia after a major shooting rounded up all the guns, and they haven’t had near the death that we do here in this country,” he said.
“I just saw last night a statistic that 11,000 people in America are murdered each year and another 20,000 commit suicide with guns,” Walker said, referring to figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“They are a scourge of this country and no one should have one as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “There’s no defense to guns. There’s just absolutely no reason to have them. But it is a right of people in this country to own and possess them, and I will not say anything to affect that right.”
This is amygdala hypersensitivity, combined with an inability to relevance weigh, due to no amygdala pathways linking crime to a resolution involving a firearm. Let him or his family one day experience crime, and repel it with a firearm, and all that angst presently driving him to condemn guns would be directed to supporting gun rights.
The amygdala-centric model of thought will be very useful one day to molding public perceptions on issues, mainly because it takes a very complex organ with many functions and distills it down to the most important.
If I could I would talk all the liberals in America, put them all on busses, and make them all serve six months in a combat zone.
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought that we were sharing pie-in-the-sky stupid ideas.
Oh, and that “no guns” thing has been tried. It’s called Medieval Feudalism. The strongest guys got together, declared everyone else their property, and sort of ran with it.
I prefer the “with guns” version of the world.
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Hmm. First anti-gunner I’ve seen admit that most gun deaths are suicides. Now if he’d just do the math and compute that the suicides would have used other methods to kill themselves, he’d be off to a good start. But then he’d have to admit that, absent victims having guns to defend themselves, the only other homicides would be of the frail, elderly, or otherwise overpowered, which of course would be unfair to women and the elderly. You can’t have it both ways, retards.
How the hell did a shitlordy place like Australia get talked into giving up all of its guns? I thought you couldn’t walk 300 yards from a city without some wild animal pouncing on you. Now they just let the government waltz into their homes and take all of their guns. Unsurprisingly violent crime is way up. Why do people listen to leftists? You’d think with their horrible track record some people would look past the tearfully emotive feel-good rhetoric and see the bullshit behind it. If taking the vote away from all non-landowners keeps one more leftist from getting into power and squirting their diarrhea policies all over decent people, I’d say it would be worth it.
Or they could, you know. stop making the world such a horrible place that people want to kill themselves. How about that?
I wish someone would rush that stupid asshole while he’s on the bench and ask the bailiffs not to use their guns.
October the 1st
Goodbye ICANN,
How long have we got YOU, do you think AC?
Until I’m poisoned, or the site goes down?
Either way, if you’ve got em smoke em.
Can’t stop the signal. If ICANN decides to try to start shutting down sites, the dark web will be bigger than the open web in about eight days.
Should send 500 guys out there to picket his home and court, all armed with ‘scary’ black rifles and back up pistols, holding signs saying:
“Judge thinks it’s okay to dump what he doesn’t like in the ocean…
I have a boat, judge; let’s you an me go sailing.”
Let his brain melt under that triggering.