@McTag,
Quote:Still on with the "freedom" shite. It must give a great sense of freedom knowing that anyone you happen to meet might be carrying a gun.
And after the shooting of Sen Gifford, sales of handguns spiked. That's fear and paranoia, not "freedom".
You are quite right--oralloy isn't talking about "freedom" at all when he's speaking about his
need to have a gun. It's all about his fear and paranoia. He's irrationally afraid of the government, fearful of his fellow citizens, fearful about even crossing the border and being in Canada without his gun.
The gun doesn't make oralloy "free", it's his necessary security blanket, his tranquilizer, his crutch, because he is too hobbled by fear, suspicion, and anxiety to manage without it. Millions of little old ladies manage their daily lives without needing to carry a gun--which is more than oralloy can apparently do. In fact, the overwhelming number of people in this country don't carry guns, or even own one, nor do they wish to, nor do they see them as any sort of necessity, which puts oralloy in the distinct minority--Gallup finds that only 34% of all Americans personally own a gun, and the National Opinion Research Center reported that in 2010 only 20.8% of individuals claimed personal gun ownership. So, he's certainly not speaking for all Americans, since most apparently feel "free" to go about their daily lives without the need for a gun.
Oralloy is a sad little victim, both of his own paranoid fears and the propaganda of the NRA, but, because he can't acknowledge that, he rather childishly attacks the anti-gun policies, and the people, of other countries, like Great Britain, because they don't share his paranoid attitudes. He simply can't imagine people going about their lives without the anxieties that hobble him, so he has to find some way to degrade them, insult them, because, if he didn't do that, he'd have to admit that those same people have a sense of adequacy, and trust, that he just doesn't have--they aren't crippled by the same fears he has, they aren't afraid to walk around unarmed. And, most of all, part of what oralloy can't admit, is that these people don't live in a country plagued by gun violence, like the good old USA. Their children aren't getting killed by stray bullets while playing in a park, or sleeping in their beds, or when sitting on their front porch. They enjoy a sense of serenity about such things that oralloy just can't fathom.
Guns don't make oralloy "free"--his gun is a constant reminder of all the things he fears.
