{"id":7299,"date":"2022-05-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2022-05-27T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T23:59:48","slug":"a-dispatch-from-the-place-of-the-pariahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-dispatch-from-the-place-of-the-pariahs\/","title":{"rendered":"A DISPATCH FROM THE PLACE OF THE PARIAHS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. <\/em>The scene outside the convention center in Houston today reminded me of the anti-NRA protests in Denver after the Columbine atrocity in 1999, only this group apparently didn\u2019t get a license to march. So, they just stood there yelling and waving placards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShame on the NRA.\u201d \u201cYou are responsible.\u201d \u201cTheir blood is on your hands.\u201d \u201cNRA Death Dealers.\u201d \u201cThe Real Baby Killers are Attending This Convention.\u201d \u201cNRA\u2014Stop Killing Our Kids.\u201d \u201cNRA=Blood Money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t try to reason with any of them.  Trying to reason with the unreasonable is hopeless. It looked like a zombie outbreak with placards. At least they didn\u2019t try to bite us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you reason with people who seem to think people who intend to commit murder are going to be dissuaded by the thought of breaking a gun law?  Who think they can somehow make twenty million AR15s and many more millions of other semi-automatic rifles disappear by passing a bill?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People so hateful they think the estimated 55,000 to 80,000 of us here are immune to grief over nineteen murdered children and two slain adults?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who blame the damn RIFLE for what happened?  Had they even noticed the mass murder of 84 people in France on Bastille Day in 2016, when the killer crushed them to death with a truck? If they had, would they have asked for a ban on large trucks, and called owners of such vehicles murderers by association?  Would they demand breweries and distilleries and automobile manufacturers all be sued out of business because of drunk drivers, the way they want the same for the firearms industry over murders by monstrous criminals?  If not, they\u2019re hypocrites; if so, their critical thinking abilities are even more in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NRA is five million of their relatives, neighbors, and co-workers \u2013 liberal, conservative, and moderate alike. To tell us members that we are baby killers is to demonstrate the fallacies of their thinking in regard to this highly polarized topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n