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I can hold two positions at once. Ache for the families of this horrific tragedy and also listen to my grandmother in-laws stories of her family's encampment and slaughter..the latter could've been written a little differently had there been a means for those people to defend themselves. I believe there is an element where freedom is scary. I believe the alternative is a dystopia the word scary well understates.

No. I'm stating the issues we're seeing now are a manifestation of the human condition. The normalization of misgendering people (who have great value, intrinsically), mass shooting (the predominance of shootings are not sensationalized because they don't enhance an agenda), and other mess come from a root issue. I do believe in the wisdom of separating church and state as broken people are at the core of both.

How about by city? That's the higher fidelity view. But, I'll state again, the existent party lines aren't solving this crisis.

I haven't claimed it's the truth I derived. It's one I'll bow to as all the "truths" I've adopted, or seen other follow through on, seem to lead to pain and lifelessness at some point. Without fail. And agree with your situation and the slippery slope. Any time one group has power, your risk ruining any contrarian ideas or risk having that empowered group becoming tyrannical or dictatorial. Such is the human condition and aptly pointed out. Totalitarianism, at its root, is the same problem. The base issue of it all is indeed the human condition. The broken human condition leads to immorality to include mass shootings, governing tyranny, and a slew of other personal, familial, and larger mess. As to the politician, I don't know him or his motivations. It seems to lack emotional intelligence and likely pandering to a voter base. It doesn't stir up a predominant emotion other than shaking my head... This point has been argued for years and in many more prominent mediums than HB. We'll agree to disagree.

We are living in a country that, generally, is in active rebellion against truth. There are many individuals who stand firm through it, but generally the moral decay of the US shows this fact. I'm very curious, what is your current spiritual stance or belief?

The 2A was meant as a means for protection against tyranny. Secondarily it serves a purpose for multiple types of defense. Are you saying there is no historical evidence a government has turned on its citizens? EDIT: Gun violence, gender misidentification etc are both a symptom. Deal with the root or the symptoms will remain or evolve into further immoral acts

Look at the crime rates in the US in the least gun-friendly areas of our country. The US has a moral decay and cultural issue where certain types of violence is almost celebrated (get and maintain respect, or whatever) within these areas. And these shootings make up the majority of gun violence, historically, in the US. You're likely joking, but that's the free agency you have and, I'd posit, one of the worst things one could do to affirm masculinity.

A complete mess for sure. Should've never happened. Stepping back, I don't see either existent party as fixing the US' sliding...

My wife's family line, from WWII, would surely have liked anything remotely related to a 2nd Amendment... What happens to the people when that army is turned on its disarmed populace?

I'm against mob rule where a Constitutional Republic is designed to prevent. Subjective truth and subjective experience is much different. For the former, subjectivity leads to moral decay. Who is right if your truth opposes someone else's?

The 2A is intended to protect the 1A

Children dressing as opposite sex members and dancing for cheering adults is tangentially related to the moral and mental illness of the latest shooter. And it stems from an extreme, accepted, moral decay of our country. Anyone who does this has a mental derangement and needs help.

The term "relativism" may be more appropriate to my points, then. If your truth opposes someone else's truth, who becomes correct? The mob? That's democracy. And to your exact point here. What happens if said government decides that a certain sect of society was the only right sect - all others would be persecuted... The exact Founding Father's point of the 2A.

I've given no involuntary imposition to anyone. Just perspectives you vehemently disagree with. All good, I carry no ill emotion about that fact...

It's a spiritual answer for who define objective truth. If we diverge there we'll have trouble coming to a common ground from that point...

Who is forcing anything? Progressive moral dispositions are eroding our country. Gun violence, normalization of child gender mutilation...symptoms of a root problem. And those people need to know they have great value and purpose.

That's a spoke issue, not the hub. Could've been a firmly-rooted-in-his-maculinity-male with the same mental disturbances as this shooter. To dismiss it as something normal, however, is disgusting.

That is a spiritual answer which is why I asked an earlier poster. I'll emphatically tell you who it is not - the ones advocating, promoting, or even accepting this filth.

Gun violence is more prevalent because there are more guns. How about violent crime statistics agnostic of tool? Guns are a tool and don't kill. It's the morally reprehensible and mentally ill that kill them. Just like spoons don't cause obesity. I'm looking at the root of the issue, not symptoms. Party lines don't solve the morality issues plaguing this country. Let me try and understand you as you state my commentary on objective truth being fundamental to a functional humanity - are you stating children being taken to drag shows is unrelated to the problem at hand or could even be something as remotely acceptable?

Continuing to set the baseline - Truth isn't swayed by experience, locale, etc. Truth should be the lens to see experience from, give contextual framing, not something that moves based upon emotion or other externals. The truth is, someone changing their gender to feel better is not going to bring them true joy. People wanting to change their gender is a symptom of a deeper sickness. This sickness, for a very few, then leads them to take a weapon and horrifically gun people down. More often this illness yields a trip to a child drag show where they celebrate "pride" amongst egregiously underaged kids. Sometimes, the root doesn't yield to a gender identity crisis in the individual. There still remains a moral and mental illness that needs to be addressed... It's moral filth and has become normalized. The sickness should not be normalized or celebrated. It should be treated with care for that individual.

Pluralism is simply a "your truth is yours, mine is mine" tenet. When your truth and my truth diametrically oppose one another, who is right? This is where Democracies fail...mob rule. The US is a Constitutional Republic to protect against mob rule. I do have a question. Do you carry a spiritual belief system? No need to detail it if you don't want, just yes or no (if you don't mind).

Now look at violent crime statistics. It would make sense the country with more guns has more gun violence. Other countries still have massive violent crime, and now you'd have millions and millions of law abiding citizens disarmed while criminals, who don't follow laws, become even more brazen against the defenseless. I bet there are dozens of countries' citizens across the globe wishing they had a 2A to protect their rights given what just their governments have become...

Those are symptoms of a root issue. Moral regression and degradation of our society. Gender identity is a symptom of moral and mental illness. Progressivism, pluralism, relativism, and the likes, are philosophies that lend to these symptoms. This is my point. Root cause vs symptom. Pull fruit off a rotten tree or deal with the tree? The latter is the wise path.

The US is not a mob-ruled Democracy. We're a Constitutional Republic being subversively eroded. Pluralism is a plague. Living in relativistic truth becomes contradictory across individuals and groups. And it leads to the progressive filth of kid mutilation, kids being taken to drag shows, abortion like it's a hobby, and mentally ill people planning school shootings at a Christian-based campus. I can sympathize deeply with what happened. Like I said, I ache with those families. But I see it as an underlying issue that is morally reprehensible and has normalized due to progressive agendas.

Progressives, by nature, are pluralists and relativists. Cities built on sand. "Your truth is yours, mine is mine." This principle never fails to fail and whose belief system is utter doom. I'll stand for truth and not pluralistic lies. More than a vote; a stance for life.