Logic Time

Atrocities are the byproduct of a need for control and so is the aftermath. Shootings are very emotional events, and like with anyone who has been exposed to violence, they want to make sure it never happens again. Most people want someone to blame. They want punishment of anyone who might ever do such a thing, and to control the situation. Ironic since the person committing the crime seems the least blamed, and that the event happened out of their need for control.

 If people are willing to break the law to kill innocent people, what makes you think a law will stop them? This is not how you stop these people, because they are already seeking to break the law by killing people! Only people who don't understand psychology think laws are preventative with people who have no regard for boundaries. They only help you prosecute after the crime has been committed. 

Shooters are predators, and predators choose "weak" prey that are least likely to fight back, which is why MOST shootings happen in gun free zones.  Armed citizens have proven to reduce casualties in an active shooter situation, as does fighting back. California has the strictest gun laws in the country and they did not help. Shooters attempt to do the most damage with the least amount of risk to themselves. Anyone who wants to hurt you, will try to weaken you to prevent you from fighting back.  In abusive situations, they will try to remove a support group of outside people that they view as a threat or tear down your confidence to keep you from leaving.  They use rules, laws, and guilt to keep you from fighting back, while they feel above such things. They keep you dependent. Dependent is seen as weak, because it means you cannot defend yourself. The moment you have to depend on someone else for your safety, you are vulnerable.

All the psychopaths I have known, leaned
politically toward liberal Democrat. Though they
themselves did not care much about obeying laws,
they were keen on controlling everyone else's rights.

In most violent situations, you are going to be on your own, and your own response time is going to make the difference. It's time to stop expecting the government to protect you and make everything okay. The police are not psychic superheroes that jump in to save you before you get hurt. They cannot do anything until after a crime has already been committed, which means, damage has already been done, and damage can be done in seconds instead of the minutes it takes for help to arrive. So it is essential to have some knowledge to defend yourself. Just the sheer act of practicing self defense will make you more capable in a situation. When my ex threw a punch at me, my muscle memory acted on reflex before my brain could kick in or freak out. My reflexes could respond then, when in less prepared situations, I froze. When something happens so outside your normal world, it is very natural to freeze or hesitate as your brain has never encountered such a situation. Only preparing can overcome that resistance to accept something outside the norm. Your best defense is to learn to defend yourself, because even if something does happen, the sheer act of fighting back will help you deal with being a victim better. Get your own gun or take martial arts. And always be aware of your surroundings and exits. This is not just for shooters but muggers, rapists, and violent exes. I've had some scary and painful first dates. You just never know who is going to be antisocial. 

The people who will attack you in any of these situations are not normal people gone bad. They are what are known as antisocial, which is NOT introverted. Antisocial means against society, also known as sociopaths or psychopaths, who have no respect for the rules of society and pride themselves in getting around those rules. They have no guilt or empathy and in the case of psychopaths will actually draw pleasure from hurting you, which is very aberrant brain activity, making up a single digit percentage of the population. These same people steal, lie, and manipulate for a feeling of power and control. They are NOT normal law-abiding gun owners. If you want to blame a "group" that is responsible, blame psychopaths, and realize that they do not respond to the normal constraints of normal people and are incurable, unreasonable, and capable of anything. Antisocial personalities can be any sex, religion, or culture. They look just like everybody else, which makes quick judgments difficult for media and other head hunters looking for someone to blame. You can only tell them by their behavior or a brain scan. But chances are, this is a pattern and not a one time instance. Even if they aren't overtly breaking laws... or at least getting caught breaking the law, they are likely parasitic in their relationships and there are signs of their disregard for boundaries. 

Owning a gun does not instantly make someone antisocial. It has been proven that people with their conceal carry are some of the most trustworthy law-abiding citizens. Much gun crime is done by repeat offenders, who are not allowed weapons anyhow, while shooters often have little gun experience. So the dude going down to the range to shoot once a week is more likely to be the one you want at your back if something does go down than the person you should be afraid of committing the crime. He's already law abiding. Meanwhile the thug with the rap sheet as long as his arm who should still be in jail, probably stole said gun or got it illegally. A thug is not going to let on that he owns one. The real threats to society are those who are already antisocial / anti-society. It is more difficult to outlaw a personality disorder that belongs to many CEOs and politicians running this country, because they expressed their need for power over others differently.

Gun control has not improved the situation. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We have more gun control and more shooters. They are increasing at the same rate. It's not working, because that is not the root of the problem. I live near Kennesaw, Ga which began to require all it's citizens to be armed, in opposition to the increasing gun control. The result was that crime all but evaporated and criminals started targeting the surrounding "weaker" cities instead. The one shooter incident that happened in Kennesaw was in the one gun free zone, the Post Office. Someone tried to carjack in Kennesaw and was instantly taken down by an armed citizen. 

Part of the mentality that is the growing problem is thinking of the government as a god that can alter the universe with a vote.  You are not entitled to be taken care of, and you cannot outlaw a mental condition that has been around since the dawn of time. While psychopaths show up with brain scans, sociopathy, or learned anti-social behavior does not. So we have to do something that we should have been doing from the start, judging people on their own personal actions and not their attributes or accoutrements. The government is not a god, not your parents there to take care of you, because you don't want to grow up and take responsibility. It is our country and our responsibility to care for it and our neighbors. We have become complacent and need to get actively involved with our own protection. We need to be able to identify those with antisocial psychiatric risks and stop letting antisocial violent criminals out of prison to make room for non-violent victimless drug users. Stop targeting innocent people and looking for blame. If you want to control something. Take control of yourself, and prepare for emergencies. In all of history, our generation has been blessed to live in a time of relative peace that has allowed us to grow and progress at an abnormal rate. However, that is not the norm. It is a fragile state and must be maintained by us. We can't just delegate our security to someone else and expect them to take it as seriously. You are a statistic to the government. It's up to you, what kind of statistic you are. 

Idiot Meme Makers...

Proving Liberals use emotion to manipulate people
about things they don't understand
with things they don't understand.

There comes a point where you just get tired of the BS, and I've had enough of this dross... *strikes a match*

Dear meme makers... Seeking shelter... yes... but Joseph and Mary were NOT refugees, they were more like someone trying to find a hotel for Dragon Con because they had to go to their original homeland for a census for a short time before returning to their actual real home. "There's no room at the Marriott... Oh I guess we'll have to stay at the Holiday Inn". They did run to Egypt when Herod was killing all the male children, but that was not the Christmas story. Maybe you should read that book before spouting off. If you aren't going to judge Muslims, don't judge Christians either. It either goes for everyone or no one. One is not more acceptable than the other, and there are asshole extremists in every religion, even atheism.

I am all about judging people by their actions. How about we do some of that, instead of trying to manipulate people. I'm sick of people who wouldn't lift a finger personally, telling other people to make the government help. If you want to actually help refugees, why don't you adopt a family and let them live with you instead of telling other people what to do. It's a bit different when YOU have to make the sacrifice and shell out money to take care of someone instead of bleating emotionally about other people's responsibilities to do what you are not willing to do yourself. What? You don't have the financial means to do that? Have you seen the national debt? America can barely care for itself! Sometimes you can care and WANT to help and still not be ABLE to help. If you have the means and are telling others to help, when it never touches your life, then you are a hypocrite, and I will judge you by your actions. If you're going to judge, you're going to get judged. It goes both ways.

Your mouth does not win you points for being a good person, your own personal actions do. Really hate abortion, adopt a baby or take in a teen mom so they don't feel so alone. Want to stop drugs, work at a rehab. Want more welfare, take in a homeless person, or help a family down on their luck. Get involved. Making the government steal money from others so you can feel good about yourselves is the most selfish cop out ever, because you never get your hands dirty. Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your actions do. So put up or shut up! And stop bashing things you don't even understand to try and prove your point.

Being Free takes Respect and Responsibility

Being a Libertarian AKA How to tick off both polar political parties at once. 

I am PRO CHOICE, and when I say that, I am not talking about abortion, I'm talking about FREEDOM! I'm for allowing citizens to make their own choices so long as it does not violate the rights of another citizen, and as a balance I believe that if you abuse it, you lose it. Abusing the freedoms of another negates your right to freedoms and the intervention of the law.

I also believe that choices come with a responsibility to understand a choice and to take responsibility for the consequences of making it. With the internet and ready information there is no excuse for making an uninformed choice, unless someone chooses to ignore certain facts. Again... it's a choice to be ignorant and to reap its consequences.

I'm for people choosing who they want to love and marry, because they are the ones who have to live with that choice and its consequences. It's not anyone else's business unless rights are being violated like in cases of abuse.

I am for people choosing religion that reflects their beliefs and how they wish to worship the divine, so long as they do not force others to believe the same. Rules within their religion are subject to those members choosing to be a part of it and choosing to be under that religion's tenets. It should never extend beyond their own congregation, which is a CHOICE to belong to in the first place.

I am for allowing people to choose to carry a firearm to defend and protect themselves from those trying to violate their freedoms, and I am for people who choose not to, but neither's choice should be inflicted on the other. Both choices carry a need for respect and responsibility.

I am for allowing people to choose what to put into their bodies, because they are the ones that have to live with those choices. If there is anything that should be a person's sole property, it should be the right to their own flesh. Inversely no one should have a right to another's flesh without consent. Only an individual knows what's it like to live in their skin and not everybody's body is the same, so choosing a doctor to tend to its needs should also be a matter of choice, as well as procedures and tests. The consideration of another's flesh also carries a need for respect and responsibility.

Probably the most extreme I get is when it comes to those who violate freedoms. Because allowing the previous freedoms basically extinguishes all victimless crimes, it would free up law enforcement to focus on real threats to citizen safety, crimes that have victims. It would save a small fortune not paying for the care and upkeep of victimless criminals, and instead funding the prosecution of true threats. We could save on them as well, because I am for the death penalty for those who are legitimate violent threats and have abused the rights of others. By not respecting the rights of another, they negate their own rights. Freedom only works if everyone is willing to play by the same rules of respect and responsibility, with the understanding of the consequences, and terminal punishment being the consequence of their choice to forfeit someone else's freedoms. Such punishments should be reserved for the most dire violations of another's rights, but should be carried out swiftly to remove the threat to society.

I also believe as consequence in less severe cases there should be direct responsibility for victim compensation/wergild not by the state but by the individual criminal, company, or group that committed the crime, they being the source should take personal responsibility, instead of taxpayers, to pay for things such as therapy for the victim, medical needs, replacing stolen goods, and working off the debt stolen. In essence they should truly PAY for their crimes and contribute something beneficial in order to make up for the negative impact that the victim will have to live with for the rest of their lives. Most likely this would not involve direct contact but a victim advocate as an intermediary.

In addition, with these extra funds not expended on victimless crimes, we could raise the wages of law enforcement so that pursuing true threats would no longer be above their pay grade, refocus them away from victimless crimes and toward thwarting real threats.

I believe in choice and not protecting people from the consequences of their choices, but informing them to make good choices and take personal responsibility for making bad choices. Is freedom really so controversial, or have we just moved so far away from it, that we don't know what it looks like anymore?

Emotional Abuse in Politics

In the past I have said that Obama behaves like an emotionally abusive husband and America is his abused wife. He is charismatic and charming, and America loves him, so they let the abuse continue. All you have to do is look at some of the characteristics of emotionally abusive husbands and realize that he is in fact doing them to us.  The only thing missing from the list is pressure to have sex, but we have had to bend over and take it with taxes, and the TSA is good at the molesting without consent.

Checking your cell phone or email without permission

This is a big tell in a relationship, but you don't have to look far in our government either. Just look at this Daily Show episode with Jon Stewart.  "... no honey, I wouldn't ever do that... or tell you that I did that". This is an abuse of privacy, and expression of ownership over the individual. An abuser does not recognize your basic human rights. You are their possession. This is true in relationships and in politics.

This constant tracking can also fall under insecurity, by the sheer extreme of security that he has instituted to buffer his insecurity about the American people. That the NSA is abusing power to such an extent that it's stalking would be love interests is only along the same lines of the abusive qualities inherent in this personality. 

Constantly putting you down

Obama's famous quotation, "If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." This is bullshit, because government has done more to limit the growth and development of business than aid it.  It minimizes the efforts of the business owner while taking all the credit. This is classic abusive behavior, where the abuser tells you that you would be nothing without them, and who else would want you.

Explosive Temper, Mood Swings, and Making False Accusations

Obama has been a temperamental president, storming out, calling those who oppose Obamacare or other implementations extremists.  He's already been shown to lie if you watched the Daily Show clip, and then see how those who oppose him are automatically called racist.  This is a form of blame shifting which is also an emotionally abusive tactic.  When in the face of real factual arguments to their actions, an abuser will divert the attention in classic magic show redirection.  A person may have real concern about policies, but by calling the person a racist, he immediately villainizes them while directing attention away from valid arguments.

Degradation, Telling you what to do, Constantly criticizes weight/looks, Control all the financial decisions, refuse to listen to their partner’s opinion, withhold important financial information and make their spouse live on limited resources.

These all seem to lump together within the Obama policies.  Obamacare which promised people they could keep their plans (cue empty promises, another abusive tactic) obviously turned out to be a lie.  It forced its plan on people and raised people's rates astronomically.  If you don't think that Obama is making your body his, then consider Michelle Obama's war on obesity, controlling what people eat, limiting sodas in school, and basically telling people they are fat, criticizing their weight.  The government is now trying to control what you put into your body and how you handle it when you are sick.  In essence it is making some of the most important decisions, and by not divulging information "you have to pass the bill to know what's in it" that is all falling within the abusive range.

If the spouse does not give into the control they are threatened, harassed, punished and intimidated by the abuser. Physically hurting you in any way, Intimidation

In our government's case, it's a matter of threat by force. "It's the law so get used to it" mentality. Punishment comes at the point of a gun or possibly a drone strike.

Threats, Withholding to get own way, Demonstrating Omnipotence and Futility of Resistance

Recently Obama shut down the government. It's happened in the past, but this was not a way to save money on furlough, because he actually hired massive amounts of armed enforcers to keep people off federal property. However because the state governments stepped in, it did not have the pervasive impact that he was probably looking for to demonstrate power.

Monopolization of Perception

This is used to Frustrate all actions not consistent with compliance. Honestly, this one is a given with the media, and Obama having specifically put people opposed to him publicly on watch lists.

Although I could continue, it is up to you to open your eyes to the abuse that is happening. Read the list of abusive behaviors and consider if it can be applied to what you are seeing happening around you. Once an abuser takes root, the abuse only grows. It's a cycle of continual subservience and abuse. The abuser only has power so long as the abused is willing to submit via guilt and manipulation.  Don't let America become the abused wife of Obama.

I've gathered together some resources on what makes an emotionally abusive relationship below with links to the resources.

Warning Signs of Abuse

Because relationships exist on a spectrum, it can be hard to tell when a behavior crosses the line from healthy to unhealthy or even abusive. Use these warning signs of abuse to see if your relationship is going in the wrong direction:

• Checking your cell phone or email without permission
• Constantly putting you down
• Extreme jealousy or insecurity
• Explosive temper
• Isolating you from family or friends
• Making false accusations
• Mood swings
• Physically hurting you in any way
• Possessiveness
• Telling you what to do
• Repeatedly pressuring you to have sex

• Isolating a spouse from friends and family.
• Discourage any independent activities such as work; taking classes or activities with friends.
• Accuse their spouse of being unfaithful if she talks to a member of the opposite sex.
• Expect her/him to partake in sexual activities that he/she is uncomfortable with to prove their love. Or, withhold sex as punishment instead of communicating openly their displeasure.
• Constantly criticize the spouses weight, their looks, they way they dress.
• If the spouse does not give into the control they are threatened, harassed, punished and intimidated by the abuser.
• Uses the children to gain control by undermining the other parent’s authority or threatening to leave and take the children.
• Control all the financial decisions, refuse to listen to their partner’s opinion, withhold important financial information and make their spouse live on limited resources.
• Make all major decisions such as where to live, how to furnish the home and what type of automobile to drive.

Biderman's Chart of Coercion:

• Isolation:
  Deprives the victim of all social support necessary for the ability to resist.
  Develops an intense concern for self.
  Causes victims to depend on the victimizer.
• Monopolization of Perception:
  Fixes attention upon immediate predicament and fosters introspection.
  Eliminates stimuli competing with those controlled by the captor.
  Frustrates all actions not consistent with compliance.
• Induced Debility &Exhaustion:
  Weakens mental and physical ability to resist.
• Threats:
  Cultivates anxiety and despair.
• Occasional Indulgences (bailouts) :
  Provides positive motivation for continued compliance.
• Demonstrating “Omnipotence”:
  Suggests futility of resistance.
• Enforcing Trivial Demands:
  Develops habits of compliance
• Degradation:
  Makes cost of resistance appear more damaging to the self-esteem than capitulation
  Reduces prisoner to, “animal level” concerns.