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So true! Education without some common sense and real world experience can be a scary thing.
Some of the most looney people I've ever met have also been the most intelligent and highly educated. They start thinking of themselves as superior, enlightened, and intellectually elite. I'm all for a little enlightenment and intellectualism, but dadgummit that doesn't make you superior, and it doesn't mean all your ideas are good ones!
I had a conversation with one guy who went something like this
Him: Chill out, nobody is coming to take your guns. I just don't want you to have dangerous semi-auto rifles and assault guns. Maybe a revolver and a shotgun.
Me: That's funny. That's exactly what everyone is talking about right now, including you.
Him: What do you think you're going to use your military rifle for? Fighting off the government? They have planes and tanks.
Me: That has worked really well in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most recently north Africa, where people have pretty much held off entire modern militaries using only small arms and improvised devices.
Him: Okay this is getting really scary. Now you're talking about fighting the government? I want you disarmed. If you try to attack our president, he will arm us and we will make sure that you and your terrorist friends are disarmed.
I'd past the entire conversation but it would be upwards of several pages. The guy basically devolved from trying to reassure me that the government was not planning gun confiscation, to threatening to kill me using government-supplied equipment (since he doesn't own guns, but thinks the gov will give them to him in the event of civil unrest) if I didn't relinquish my firearms, all in a day's worth of message exchanges.
Also I've noticed a lot of people throwing around the term "our president" in a very cherished context. That is creepy to me, not sure why. It smacks of elevating Obama to a parental-like, folk-hero position. Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but probably not. Just browse around places like Huffpo and Democratic Underground - the wording is all over the place.
They're not dumb, they're conceited. The two are not the same.
Knowledge and wisdom are two ENTIRELY different things, my friend. A monkey (conceited or not) with an education will STILL play with his poop, scratch his arse and smell his fingers.
Wisdom is an art, and the world is woefully short of artists.
"over a million gun owners?So if I understand him correctly, he and a bunch of others with ZERO fireams experience expect to be armed by "their President" and be effective at disarming over a million gun owners???
Thank you for that, I needed a good laugh this morning!
"over a million gun owners?
How about "over 80 million gun owners"?
You know if there are over 100 million gun owners with 300 million guns that's only 3 guns each a so I'm WAY overstocked!I meant to type a hundred million (stupid tablet keyboard) but l'll settle for 80 million!