{"id":2925,"date":"2024-03-05T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:20:44","slug":"why-they-want-people-to-be-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Why They Want People To Be Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-scaled-e1709514165200.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Angry-Kid-Graffiti-scaled-e1709514165200.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Graffiti,On,The,Wall,,Angry,Kid.,Fuck,You\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A recent opinion piece at the <em>Kansas City Star<\/em> tells us: \u201cWe don\u2019t have to accept the KC Chiefs rally shooting. And we should all be angry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this may look on the surface like just another anti-gun screed that divorces fact from context, I\u2019ve noticed that authoritarian progressives have been using the \u201cI want you to be angry!\u201d bit a lot more in recent months. In this article, I\u2019ll not only explore the problems with the piece\u2019s facts and context, but explain why they\u2019re so desperate for anger.<\/p>\n<h3>Category Errors<\/h3>\n<p>The whole argument that this shooting supports gun control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/the-kansas-city-category-error\/\">stems from a category error<\/a>. The piece conveniently never mentions that this was a gang shooting and not some mass killer with political or psychotic motives. So, when the piece goes through the usual laundry list of things anti-gun people want, none of it applies.<\/p>\n<p>Just a tiny pinch of common sense tells us that criminals don\u2019t care one bit about getting a permit for their guns, so the constitutional carry law in Kansas would not have prevented this shooting. The writer (a \u201cresearcher\u201d at a Bloomberg-funded anti-gun institution) says that their research says constitutional carry is bad, so there\u2019s no room left for common sense in her head.<\/p>\n<p>What about firearms purchasing licenses like the FOID card in Illinois? She calls for bringing those back, but once again, this was gang members who wouldn\u2019t get a firearms purchasing license. Again, endless studies funded by anti-gun donors are given without disclosing that important fact.<\/p>\n<p>So, all that\u2019s really left is a bogus emotional argument about \u201cdoing something\u201d and putting all pro-gun arguments \u201cto rest\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>The Effect of Anger On The Human Brain<\/h3>\n<p>Sadly, though, this stuff actually works on the uninformed. When someone brings up a tragedy and says that we should be angry, people who don\u2019t know better and don\u2019t keep context in mind will get angry. After all, think of the children!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RybNI0KB1bg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Simpsons - Helen Lovejoy - Think of the children\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RybNI0KB1bg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But, people don\u2019t have to be stupid to fall for this trick, just uninformed. Once a propagandist gets someone to be angry, heart rates go up and adrenaline gets into the system. When people get to that point, higher brain functions are diminished, and people just can\u2019t think clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to ancient times, this was a very useful thing. When you\u2019re facing a threat, you don\u2019t have time to overthink anything. By shutting off the more thinky parts of the brain and activating more raw instinct, ancient people were better prepared for a fight or other dangerous situations where you need to act fast.<\/p>\n<p>But, in 2024, this important human trait can be used against us. With less thinking and more fear to guide us, it\u2019s easy to make mistakes, ignore context and get things flat wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So, when you\u2019re talking to friends and family, try to inoculate them from this. A person\u2019s first reaction to \u201cYou should be angry!\u201d should be skepticism. If someone wants you angry, they\u2019re trying to manipulate and use you. So, you have to stop, take a few deep breaths and chill out to think clearly.<\/p>\n<p>If we can get more friends and family to resist this kind of manipulation, they\u2019ll have a harder time finding fertile ground for the seeds of propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/why-they-want-people-to-be-angry\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent opinion piece at the Kansas City Star tells us: \u201cWe don\u2019t have to accept the KC Chiefs rally shooting. And we should all be angry\u201d While this may look on the surface like just another anti-gun screed that divorces fact from context, I\u2019ve noticed that authoritarian progressives have been using the \u201cI want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}