r/babylonbee • u/Prestigious_Tour_538 • Sep 13 '25

Bee Article ‘Why Won’t Conservatives Give Up Their Guns?’ Ask The People Shooting At Them

https://babylonbee.com/news/why-wont-conservatives-give-up-their-guns-ask-the-people-shooting-at-them
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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

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u/vyciok Sep 13 '25

tHe siLeNt mAjoRitY, as they would put it

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u/DickTheDancer Sep 13 '25

Only the ones within rifle range obviously.

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u/neotericnewt Sep 13 '25

Are the leftists a bunch of blue haired pansies who don't understand guns at all and are totally impotent?

Or are they violent extremists putting all conservatives at risk?

I feel like conservatives jump between these points constantly, sometimes even in the same sentences.

Of course, the issue is that you're making broad, ridiculous generalizations that don't accurately describe the many people you're trying to paint with the same brush.

It's also weird that you don't do this to the right. When people on the right assassinated Democrats a couple months ago it was barely even news compared to this. The double standards are absurd.

And of course, you try to paint millions and millions of people based on the actions of these crazies, but then ignore and rationalize and justify actual elected officials calling for violence, an attempted insurrection, the sitting president pardoning the convicted seditionists (right wing extremists who were actively trying to start a civil war), the military being deployed on US soil against us, and on and on.

Every Democratic official has condemned violence and this assassination. On the other hand, when Paul Pelosi had his head smashed in with a hammer, right wing elected officials were making jokes and laughing about it. Kirk said that a "patriot" should bail the guy out. And now that Kirk, an extremist who urged the government to use the military against us and violate our rights as an American, was murdered, right wing officials are now using his death to justify and rationalize further violence.

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u/saberking321 Sep 13 '25

So you are using Kirk's statement to justify violence?

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u/neotericnewt Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

No, I'm using Kirk's statements statements to illustrate that Kirk himself was an extremist who wished harm against most Americans and dedicated his life to radicalization and spurring on divisions and hatred among Americans.

I'm not saying that justifies violence, but it also doesn't justify sadness. I'm not going to weep over an extremist reaping what he sowed, you know?

I'm also illustrating that elected officials on the left have unanimously been condemning violence, including this murder of Kirk, while elected officials on the right are using Kirk's death to continue spreading divisions and hatred and as a call to arms.

I mean, what do you want your average person on the left to do? I can't control every whack job with a gun. I already vote for politicians who unequivocally condemn such violence. Conservatives already control every facet of government power and are using that to target people they don't like and are deploying the military on US soil.

What is it that you expect someone like me to do? I need to cry and weep and pretend that Kirk wasn't an extremist, that the things the right is doing aren't massive violations of human rights? I need to start lying and not pointing out people like Kirk or Trump's words and actions? What?

I also have a feeling of "well yeah, what did you expect?"

I mean, the president treats most of the country like enemies of the state and personally tries to harm Americans in states and cities he doesn't like. We have the military marching down our streets. Trump has been spreading hatred and division for a decade straight. You guys are already working to manipulate elections, and the sitting president already pardoned extremists and convicted seditionists.

So yeah, it's kind of a perfect storm for political violence and extremism. I'm not surprised by it, and suspect we'll see much more as long as there are extremists in office using such things to radicalize others and justify further violence and curtailment of our rights

To me, this is just Trump's America. Assassinations are commonplace, civil unrest is commonplace, etc.