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"Banning magazines and madness
Now imagine someone in a schoolroom skilled with a sword or machete. You can always find a bogeyman to justify something you want to do, that makes a criminal out of someone else who has not done and will not do anything to hurt you. It's called propaganda. It's what is bad when directed at you, but good when directed elsewhere, especially if it serves as a shield to prove that you are "reasonable" to your detractors.
Especially detractors who have misused power over you. People who have or are fighting for the rights of people with mental illnesses to be free of bigotry have blamed "high-capacity magazines" for the deaths in Connecticut. The NRA has, just as wrongfully and stupidly in my opinion, directed criticism away from magazines and onto people with mental illnesses, asking for an expansion of the NICS.
I'm not sure I have enough personal courage to go around wearing black triangles or six-pointed stars in protest. Although in the large majority, Jews weren't the only ones to die by gassing or in the Nazi camps. Black would have been my color. On January 1st, I wrote to the people on the Yarrow Campus in Tulsa asking for help with a legal problem on that basis. No response. Perhaps it's fear of association.
Consider all the laws in different places that have been passed on this kind of reasoning: you can't tell which Jew will cheat you; you can't tell which Arab will throw a bomb; you can't tell which Black will rape a white woman; you can't tell which person with mental illness will go postal; you can't tell which "assault weapon" or "high capacity magazine" will be used to kill. Guilt by association, without need of individual proof. Somewhere I read that our Constitution is supposed to be against that.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. - Dorthy Parker"
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