This one is just REALLY poor!
First up, while Aging Hippie Lebwoski probably leans left politically The Big Lebowski was an entirely apolitical movie, and using that image for political gains is just poor form.
Second the wording doesn’t even follow the anti-gun talking points.
The NRA line often lampooned by the antis is Wayne LaPierre’s “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun”. It’s lampooned, but it is also true. Every spree shooter stopped killing innocents the moment armed resistance presented itself, be that a lawful citizen with a gun, or a sworn police officer.
Still this image talks about “Stopping a Bad Guy”, if they are implying that only armed people are “Bad Guys” then they haven’t read the “Gun Death?” Files, nor are they giving credence to all the anti-gun states and cities that deny the rights of their citizens to keep and bear arms, yet are awash with crime and murder, both gun related and non-gun. Nor are they noting that there is NO NATION ON EARTH that has NO GUN CRIME, be it the UK, or China, or Russia, even when the citizens are disarmed wholesale by law, the Bad guys still get guns to use, and that’s not even the half of the people killed, raped, and assaulted with non-gun weapons.
It’s just Bullshit.
The law HELPS with crime, but it doesn’t STOP crime. What STOPS crime is people defending themselves from the violent element, and when people defend themselves the violent element takes note and chooses different ways to enrich themselves criminally that won’t get them shot.
To the hippies that made the poster:
“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, uh, your opinion, man.”
You beat me to it, Joe.
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And yet you can’t sue the goverment for failing to protect you. They *are* aware that the courts are quite clear that the police is not liable if someone else hurts you?
Then again… they don’t think police carry *their* guns to stop bad guys. Which raises uncomfortable questions as to why the police, or any goverment agent, should be armed…
Also… this means the goverment can check every machine shop, hardware store, plumbing supply company, and gas station right? I mean if they want to put all their eggs in the basket of “don’t get guns”…
And they wonder why we think they want to ban guns, or only care about gun death.
So… if a good government disarms bad people, whom does a bad government disarm?
TS- You win the internets.
Personally, I’d have assumed this was satire, and moved right along. Hmmmm.
It may have been created that way, but Old Baldr took it pretty serious, and that’s who found it for me!
Also TS, well said! Somebody needs to make that up, maybe with Marlon Brando from Apocalypse now just for sport! 🙂