A couple of the panelists include Maher, film director and social critic Michael Moore, actor/comedian Zack Galifinakis and S.E. Cupp who is the host of the MSNBC show "The Cycle" who also is a gun advocate. I chose this video as there were a large number of comments and some heated comments including name calling, insulting, etc. This was the first time I've ever commented on videos like this in a public forum and I felt somewhat uncomfortable. I originally changed my name to be "Michelle Argument" but saw it changed my name in this blog so switched it back to my official name. The show centered around the gun control debate with the majority of the panelist on the side of gun control. The debate ended up being tense between S.E. Cupp and Michael Moore. Moore believes we should have a gun registry and Cupp believing a registry is assuming people are guilty before being proved innocent. Moore used the Musket argument stating the 2nd Amendment is outdated and really everyone should just get a dog to protect themselves. I made a couple independent posts about my opinion and replied to a couple other posts. My posts and responses to posts included the following:
this
red-headed bitch is so..um..clueless.i love women but,sometimes they just turn
me into a raging chauvinist just by the things they say
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Capois...this
is not a female vs. male debate. Making blanket statements based
upon the opinions of this ONE woman will not help the debate. I've heard
ridiculous comments made in my life by both men and women.
Michelle
Argument
Gun ownership in the US is still a 2nd Amendment
right...plain and simple. As horrific those mass shootings were, the shooters
had forms of mental illness and I believe they would have found other means of
killing with or without a gun. I'd much
rather see Michael Moore do a documentary on mental illness in the US and
funding/research/education around early detection and how best to treat vs.
blaming everything on the gun itself.
Michael
Collins
She seems to
be arguing that it is an abuse of power for the government to check your
background before issuing a potentially deadly weapon because it suggests you
may have criminal intent. Why is this so
unacceptable? Would she therefore also argue that schools cannot check the
background of a member of staff because it implies they may be sex offenders or
otherwise dangerous to children? Or that Police cannot check your car insurance
because it implies to you might not have any?
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Michelle
Argument
As a person on the pro-2nd Amendment side, I have
to agree with you on this. There should
still be some form of checks and balances even though I believe more of the
focus on this debate should be focused on the mental health side of it.
As much as I adore my two dogs...there is no way
they will protect me against an intruder/armed person. They may bark to alert me but that's about
it. God forbid the intruder tries to rub
their bellies or offer a treat, then I will REALLY be unarmed! I personally would not feel comfortable
owning or using a gun but that is my opinion...my right to decide. That right should not be taken away from
other people as everybody's situation is different. It's not the weapon but rather the person
behind the weapon and their intentions.
BIGNick7513
More people
die from heart disease than mass shootings, assault riffles, or a gun with an
extended clip combined. Yet you don't see anybody saying we need to get rid of
fast food.
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Michelle
Argument
True!!! But I have to believe that will be next. Not to turn the gun debate into a
"slippery slope" argument...but yes, there are now so many
regulations around food/calorie counts, fast food, etc. but again...it's a
CHOICE! If I have decided to buy some
Twinkies and get crazy, gain some lbs...that's my fault. No one else, no matter how much advertising
is out there to try and entice me to buy their product. So often people want to blame other people/
things for our own choices.
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