I generally like and agree with most of Nick Freitas’ opinions about most subjects, they are almost always well reasoned. His speeches against gun control while in the Virginia house of delegates are superb.
What’s with the typos in the wall’s 2A inscription in the photo? bad photoshop? AI idiocy?
What can I say? I am a Firearms owner and Sport shooter in a shooting club, here in Orillia Ontario Canada. You probably know what the Canadian government politicians because of their short sighted, misinformed, sometimes ignorant and intent on punishing responsible legal gun owners is doing. We have a handgun freeze and a program costing at least 2 billion dollars which probably won’t work, and is getting quite a bit of resistance by both civilians and police forces who are refusing to enforce these laws. I wish we had more people with this type of logic, knowledge and common sense not only in the U.S.A but also in Canada. We all know that criminals and not regular citizens who legally own firearms are not the culprits. We just have to remind ourselves that on both sides of the border there are those (politicians) with tons of greed and selfish ambition. Let’s keep up the good fight!
@ Roger Willco – “Ideology is a more powerful motivator than facts.”
You are absolutely correct. Firearms-Prohibition, like Alcohol-Prohibition a century ago, is driven by worldview not reason. All these “Prohibition” movements are driven by Left-wing ideology.
Leftists have a mental state that is based upon a ‘Tabula rasa’ subconscious bias. See this link:
Leftists don’t ‘Think’ or ‘Reason’. Rather, they ‘feel’. What they ‘feel’ is that people would be inherently ‘Good’ if the World did not continually corrupt them. They feel that humans are born as angels (Blank Slates) but then they are corrupted by living in the real World. It is why leftists so often prefer to live in a bubble that reinforces their Worldview rather than confront the real World. Their left-wing fantasy World is so, so, so much more appealing to them than reality.
Therefore, Leftists are pre-programmed to duck all human responsibility, for the World’s ills, in favor of placing the blame on external, environmental factors. Thus, human are never at fault for the crimes that they commit. That is why the Left hates the Death Penalty. It is the reason for their “Soft-on-Crime’ policies. It is the reason that they continually favor the welfare of the criminal over that of the honest citizen.
Leftists ALWAYS blame the World for it’s ills. They will NEVER blame humans for being the source of evil. Left-Wing Ideology is a System for shifting blame. In their book, it is poverty, ignorance, child abuse, capitalism, the easy availability of weapons, etc. etc. etc. that must be fought. The idea that humans, themselves, must assume responsibility for their own behavior, and develop the self-discipline to behave correctly, is alien to their Worldview.
You can see why the old quote that “Guns don’t Kill, People do” absolutely drives the gun-grabbers nuts. It is a direct refutation of their Worldview.
Firearms-prohibition is a left-wing inspired effort to shift the blame for violence away from human beings and onto an external material object (The Firearm). It is CLASSIC left-wing thinking.
Therefore, to throw logic at a firearms-prohibitionists is like throwing pearls before swine. It is (literally) a waste of time and effort. Ideology drives Prohibition, not logic or reason.
Leftists ALWAYS blame the World for it’s ills. They will NEVER blame humans for being the source of evil.
I half agree.
I agree that Leftists will never blame themselves for being a source of evil. However, the last decade has proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they will blame non-Leftists — in this case, Trump and his supporters — for ALL evil … often with blinding, whiplash-inducing quickness.
Part of it is that their definition of “evil” doesn’t precisely match ours; they believe their ideology is the perfect good, so anything that opposes or refutes it is evil by definition. The other part is that many Leftists view non-Leftists as “not fully human,” which frees them from the ideological inconsistency of assigning blame for evil on tabula rasa humans.
But I 100% agree that Leftist ideology is entirely based on “feeling,” not logic or reason, and as it’s been pointed out, you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
@ Archer – “However, the last decade has proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they will blame non-Leftists — in this case, Trump and his supporters — for ALL evil.”
I would not frame it that way, exactly. Their ideology demands a Worldview whereby people are inherently good. Thus, they cannot view people as irreparably evil.
This Worldview often rises to the level of religious fervor. Their hatred of President Trump, and his supporters, is driven by this fervor. They view President Trump as a supreme heretic. Someone who is standing against the ‘True Faith’ of Left-Wing Ideology. The acts of heretics are always viewed as EVIL by the True Believers.
If President Trump, or his supporters, would repent their SINS and come back to the True Faith of the Leftism, they would be forgiven of their sins. Even President Trump would be forgiven if he suddenly repented and used his Presidential Power to advance the Marxist Worldview rather than to oppose it.
Therefore, their hatred of MAGA is not accurately described as Good versus Evil. President Trump, and his MAGA supporters, must be crushed and destroyed because they are a heretical movement which opposes the True Faith of Leftism. Not because they are EVIL, per se.
Leftism is a secular religion driven by the subconscious bias of the ‘Tabula rasa’ Worldview. Thus, the hatred of President Trump, and MAGA, is best viewed in terms of a Religious War.
As noted above, logic and reason, not to mention reality, doesn’t really matter to many. Not to mention “the cause” has become a crusade and there’s a virtual industry devoted to it. And the virtue signaling goes on. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Several years ago I went back & forth with the editor-since replaced, but no real change-of the local paper. He wouldn’t print anything that didn’t fit the narrative and kept suggesting I look at different source material. One he suggested seemed interesting. They just claimed not politics, no message, just numbers. They even had a methodology section-which most don’t. Unfortunately, that consisted of a statement that they had 7500 sources. Not identified, no information on cross checking, or verification criteria and yearly numbers that exceed the casualty counts of several wars the US has been in.
Lately it’s dawned upon me that these are the same folks who claimed that morality can’t be legislated. But, violation of the law should be punished. If the money spent on the ban campaigns had been spent on public mental health facilities, it’d do a lot more good.
Great post! Your second paragraph reminds me of the saying, “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.”
“. . . morality can’t be legislated.” I guess they never heard of the Ten Commandments, or the 13 years of Prohibition from 1920–1933. Is slavery a moral issue? It has been legislated forever, and is still legal in some places today.
If America is a team, then some players are working against their own team. We are not pulling together to help Team America win.
Roger, until you read through some “peer reviewed studies” in various allegedly professional journals, you’ve got no clue as to how low the bar is set. It was the most shocking part of my 5 year study on the use of firearms in homicide. If my statistics profs had graded them, most would have been “Fs”. My thesis adviser had to school me on “the realities of research”. Short version: the end often justifies the means.
This was very good, I wish he could have this talk in front of our lawmakers!
People have presented these same truths to lawmakers everywhere, multiple times. Those speakers may as well have said those things to the stone walls o the government palaces in which the lawmakers were sitting.
You see, too many o them do not care about logic, truth, reality….. only their continued power and wealth. Prime example being that woman who happened to get caught in the shooting in an Arizona parking lot during a political event. She became an icon o “gun violence” and has stumped to disarm all o us because…….. power and control
One question the disarmers almost never ask is: how many o the prominent cases o “gun violence” are perpetrated by those who, were existing gun laws applied, should have been denied the possession o arms?
Sandy Hook, Parkland, Virginia Tech, Hood one and two, Uvalde, the list is endless. Their mindless autopilot response is “we need more antigun laws in place”.
He used those terms at the start, while giving a recitation of anti-rights positions, which he did to demonstrate that he knows and understands the arguments the anti-rights crowd uses. It makes sense that he would use their terms while reciting their arguments.
Once he indicated that that part of his speech was over, about 2:55 in, he stopped using the anti-rights crowd’s terms for the most part (there might have been a couple slips).
Somebody needs to fix the inscription on that wall: it is literally gibberish.
GC is a concept which I deem to be so obscene that I refuse to even utter the words. That will be all
Extremely good explanation.
Yet another excellent presentation.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I generally like and agree with most of Nick Freitas’ opinions about most subjects, they are almost always well reasoned. His speeches against gun control while in the Virginia house of delegates are superb.
What’s with the typos in the wall’s 2A inscription in the photo? bad photoshop? AI idiocy?
Agreed.
I have been following him for quit some time now.
Ditto.
What can I say? I am a Firearms owner and Sport shooter in a shooting club, here in Orillia Ontario Canada. You probably know what the Canadian government politicians because of their short sighted, misinformed, sometimes ignorant and intent on punishing responsible legal gun owners is doing. We have a handgun freeze and a program costing at least 2 billion dollars which probably won’t work, and is getting quite a bit of resistance by both civilians and police forces who are refusing to enforce these laws. I wish we had more people with this type of logic, knowledge and common sense not only in the U.S.A but also in Canada. We all know that criminals and not regular citizens who legally own firearms are not the culprits. We just have to remind ourselves that on both sides of the border there are those (politicians) with tons of greed and selfish ambition. Let’s keep up the good fight!
Powerful. Concise. Clear. Passionate.
Thank You!
Nick is a sharp fellow. Folling him for years now.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Unfortunately, logical arguments don’t always convince those on the other side of the gun debate. Ideology is a more powerful motivator than facts.
And logic doesn’t win wars
@ Roger Willco – “Ideology is a more powerful motivator than facts.”
You are absolutely correct. Firearms-Prohibition, like Alcohol-Prohibition a century ago, is driven by worldview not reason. All these “Prohibition” movements are driven by Left-wing ideology.
Leftists have a mental state that is based upon a ‘Tabula rasa’ subconscious bias. See this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
Leftists don’t ‘Think’ or ‘Reason’. Rather, they ‘feel’. What they ‘feel’ is that people would be inherently ‘Good’ if the World did not continually corrupt them. They feel that humans are born as angels (Blank Slates) but then they are corrupted by living in the real World. It is why leftists so often prefer to live in a bubble that reinforces their Worldview rather than confront the real World. Their left-wing fantasy World is so, so, so much more appealing to them than reality.
Therefore, Leftists are pre-programmed to duck all human responsibility, for the World’s ills, in favor of placing the blame on external, environmental factors. Thus, human are never at fault for the crimes that they commit. That is why the Left hates the Death Penalty. It is the reason for their “Soft-on-Crime’ policies. It is the reason that they continually favor the welfare of the criminal over that of the honest citizen.
Leftists ALWAYS blame the World for it’s ills. They will NEVER blame humans for being the source of evil. Left-Wing Ideology is a System for shifting blame. In their book, it is poverty, ignorance, child abuse, capitalism, the easy availability of weapons, etc. etc. etc. that must be fought. The idea that humans, themselves, must assume responsibility for their own behavior, and develop the self-discipline to behave correctly, is alien to their Worldview.
You can see why the old quote that “Guns don’t Kill, People do” absolutely drives the gun-grabbers nuts. It is a direct refutation of their Worldview.
Firearms-prohibition is a left-wing inspired effort to shift the blame for violence away from human beings and onto an external material object (The Firearm). It is CLASSIC left-wing thinking.
Therefore, to throw logic at a firearms-prohibitionists is like throwing pearls before swine. It is (literally) a waste of time and effort. Ideology drives Prohibition, not logic or reason.
Leftists ALWAYS blame the World for it’s ills. They will NEVER blame humans for being the source of evil.
I half agree.
I agree that Leftists will never blame themselves for being a source of evil. However, the last decade has proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they will blame non-Leftists — in this case, Trump and his supporters — for ALL evil … often with blinding, whiplash-inducing quickness.
Part of it is that their definition of “evil” doesn’t precisely match ours; they believe their ideology is the perfect good, so anything that opposes or refutes it is evil by definition. The other part is that many Leftists view non-Leftists as “not fully human,” which frees them from the ideological inconsistency of assigning blame for evil on tabula rasa humans.
But I 100% agree that Leftist ideology is entirely based on “feeling,” not logic or reason, and as it’s been pointed out, you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
@ Archer – “However, the last decade has proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they will blame non-Leftists — in this case, Trump and his supporters — for ALL evil.”
I would not frame it that way, exactly. Their ideology demands a Worldview whereby people are inherently good. Thus, they cannot view people as irreparably evil.
This Worldview often rises to the level of religious fervor. Their hatred of President Trump, and his supporters, is driven by this fervor. They view President Trump as a supreme heretic. Someone who is standing against the ‘True Faith’ of Left-Wing Ideology. The acts of heretics are always viewed as EVIL by the True Believers.
If President Trump, or his supporters, would repent their SINS and come back to the True Faith of the Leftism, they would be forgiven of their sins. Even President Trump would be forgiven if he suddenly repented and used his Presidential Power to advance the Marxist Worldview rather than to oppose it.
Therefore, their hatred of MAGA is not accurately described as Good versus Evil. President Trump, and his MAGA supporters, must be crushed and destroyed because they are a heretical movement which opposes the True Faith of Leftism. Not because they are EVIL, per se.
Leftism is a secular religion driven by the subconscious bias of the ‘Tabula rasa’ Worldview. Thus, the hatred of President Trump, and MAGA, is best viewed in terms of a Religious War.
As noted above, logic and reason, not to mention reality, doesn’t really matter to many. Not to mention “the cause” has become a crusade and there’s a virtual industry devoted to it. And the virtue signaling goes on. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Several years ago I went back & forth with the editor-since replaced, but no real change-of the local paper. He wouldn’t print anything that didn’t fit the narrative and kept suggesting I look at different source material. One he suggested seemed interesting. They just claimed not politics, no message, just numbers. They even had a methodology section-which most don’t. Unfortunately, that consisted of a statement that they had 7500 sources. Not identified, no information on cross checking, or verification criteria and yearly numbers that exceed the casualty counts of several wars the US has been in.
Lately it’s dawned upon me that these are the same folks who claimed that morality can’t be legislated. But, violation of the law should be punished. If the money spent on the ban campaigns had been spent on public mental health facilities, it’d do a lot more good.
WR Moore,
Great post! Your second paragraph reminds me of the saying, “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.”
“. . . morality can’t be legislated.” I guess they never heard of the Ten Commandments, or the 13 years of Prohibition from 1920–1933. Is slavery a moral issue? It has been legislated forever, and is still legal in some places today.
If America is a team, then some players are working against their own team. We are not pulling together to help Team America win.
Roger, until you read through some “peer reviewed studies” in various allegedly professional journals, you’ve got no clue as to how low the bar is set. It was the most shocking part of my 5 year study on the use of firearms in homicide. If my statistics profs had graded them, most would have been “Fs”. My thesis adviser had to school me on “the realities of research”. Short version: the end often justifies the means.
This was very good, I wish he could have this talk in front of our lawmakers!
People have presented these same truths to lawmakers everywhere, multiple times. Those speakers may as well have said those things to the stone walls o the government palaces in which the lawmakers were sitting.
You see, too many o them do not care about logic, truth, reality….. only their continued power and wealth. Prime example being that woman who happened to get caught in the shooting in an Arizona parking lot during a political event. She became an icon o “gun violence” and has stumped to disarm all o us because…….. power and control
One question the disarmers almost never ask is: how many o the prominent cases o “gun violence” are perpetrated by those who, were existing gun laws applied, should have been denied the possession o arms?
Sandy Hook, Parkland, Virginia Tech, Hood one and two, Uvalde, the list is endless. Their mindless autopilot response is “we need more antigun laws in place”.
This would have been a MUCH better pitch if he didn’t use anti-Rights terms (e.g., gun violence, gun deaths, haigh capacity magazines, etc.)
He used those terms at the start, while giving a recitation of anti-rights positions, which he did to demonstrate that he knows and understands the arguments the anti-rights crowd uses. It makes sense that he would use their terms while reciting their arguments.
Once he indicated that that part of his speech was over, about 2:55 in, he stopped using the anti-rights crowd’s terms for the most part (there might have been a couple slips).