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In reply to the discussion: Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns. [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)140. "Clearly, all of us have done more.." More of what, exactly? Wearing out keyboards? Posting pics?
Reposting someone else's cartoons and op-eds?
What you do, and what the vast majority of your fellow gun control advocates do,
can be described with one word:
Slacktivism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism
Slacktivism (sometimes slactivism or slackervism) is a portmanteau of the words slacker and activism. The word is usually considered a pejorative term that describes "feel-good" measures, in support of an issue or social cause, that have little physical or practical effect, other than to make the person doing it feel satisfied that they have contributed. Slacktivism can be defined as the act of showing support for a cause but only truly being beneficial to the egos of people participating in this so-called activism. The acts tend to require minimal personal effort from the slacktivist. The underlying assumption being promoted by the term is that these low-cost efforts substitute for more substantive actions rather than supplementing them
Granted, you might have developed carpal tunnel syndrome scraping photos from the Web...
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Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns. [View all]
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
OP
On a closed off range, no danger to innocent people, correctly wearing ear protection
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#132
Now they can display their cocks in public! FFS, where is the US headed. I see this as
RKP5637
Jan 2016
#4
It's the yahoos with the inanimate compensator that are a concern. Anyone who needs a gun to walk
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#80
I think you've got it bass ackward, and you're clearly not part of any "middle ground" on this. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2016
#56
You have no need to worry about that, along with the other 99.9% of firearm owners
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#11
Wait. You could or couldn't care less? I don't know what to make of this post.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#10
Gunners are funny, GG. And, your lust for lethal weapons and missions has been noted.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#90
It takes a while for all the yahoos' and old soldier's love for lethal weapons to dissipate.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#94
Ok Hoyt, you go with that, meanwhile, the gun control movement is dying and you don't
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#95
Could you give me a link? I missed whatever you are posting about. Besides, how does that justify
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#97
I support Moms Demand Action. Kind of hypocritical in your case with 5 gun safes full of
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#99
Do you actually do *anything* in the real world, not online, to support gun control?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#108
Those questions also apply to every "gun control supporter" here...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#109
Clearly, all of us have done more than the gun yahoos who can't leave home without one
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#119
"Clearly, all of us have done more.." More of what, exactly? Wearing out keyboards? Posting pics?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#140
At least we are not toting guns, promoting guns, supporting Zimmerman, contributing to NBA rather
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#141
You also don't go to meetings, write checks, or lobby politicians. You are, indeed, slacktivists
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#142
I get it, you are proud of your support for gun organizations like the NRA, and god knows what else
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#143
Add "research what I talk about" to the list of things you don't do, as I despise the NRA...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#145
Tell it to the former good guy father of this toddler. I'm sure the girl's mother had no reason to
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#16
Isn't that why gun owners need to shove a pop-gun in their pants before leaving the house?
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2016
#23
That's great, is there any evidence that having guns in the home reduces the chances that they...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2016
#31
There are plenty of youtube videos of citizens with firearms successfully defending themselves
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#102
Videos aren't anecdotes, neither are news stories about citizens defending themselves
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#107
Tell me again how I can tell a good guy with a gun from a bad. Why is my fear irrational?
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#105
Two people dead because of one asshole with a gun equals fucking stupid ignore the problem. And if
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#111
I don't have that kind of fear of my fellow humans. Why some have is curious.
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#139
Maybe. I don't know what tomorrow might bring. I tell myself I would never do anything to harm
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#106