Aberrant Anti-gun 'BANNERS':

I like to start my posts on a lighter topic - so your starter question today - for 10 points is .. How many people die worldwide every year? .. I'll tell you later.

I learned another new word ... ABERRANT .. it means something like 'deviating from typical or normal patterns'.

- I was considering other words to deluded & demented for describing the anti-gun campaigners' emotional scripts and cant.

You see these "Banners" seek to label any citizen interested in skill at arms as being a potential killer playing with weapons designed to murder innocent people.

.. This needs them to completely discount the wild harvesting of natural seasonal foods, crop protection - pest control - precision target shooting sports competition, - self-defence - Law Enforcement - Peace Keeping and Defence Forces ..

Apart from the factually FALSE assumptions therein ... the Banners make a 1984 type "Double-Speak" leap to exempt their own Police Forces and three or four branches of their national Military from also being 'killing machines' ... which of course they specifically are.

A typical anti-gun campaigner first has to personify a neutral inanimate tool as Dangerous & 'EVIL' and then label it's owner also as evil by association.

Henry Big Boy X Model Black Polymer Gun:

Politicians eagerly grasping at any opening to deny reality spotted that modern firearms are coloured BLACK .. an "evil colour" - and coined the label BLACK RIFLES to separate them from the good rifles as used by "White Hat Heroes".

- Modern firearms use moulded polymers to replace heavier wooden stocks and these plastics contain UV stabilisers and carbon black to stop UV sunlight degradation known as 'phototendering' 

That is why they are coloured black .. not because they are evil.

Psychologists need to study these Gun Banners and determine just how they justify choosing to reverse logic and falsify and ignore facts in order to project nonsense as wisdom. - Surely this is 'a maladaptive coping mechanism' for their mental stress?

I see other examples of reversed logic lately .. it seems to be currently fashionable.

- Take school classes & classrooms - Kids get restless when required to sit quietly and learn .. the traditional remedy was to enforce behavioural restraint and discipline for short periods with play breaks at intervals. 

- The new pattern seems to be to allow free movement and distraction from learning and to even encourage this wandering by removing desks and dividing walls between classes while the teacher ignores these free-range ferals and tries to teach any static children at rest. This weird corruption of the education process is no doubt encouraged because it is cheaper to produce school buildings with less structural divisions and furniture.

Recently Prohibited firearms here in NZ have been labelled as Military STYLED Semi Autos (MSSA's). - As a mere retired fork-lift driver - I'd like to ask what has style got to do with anything related to criminal violence or racist terrorism? .. The answer is that the word 'style' is what adds our sporting firearms to inclusion with military selective-fire weapons .. by means of their use of plastic furniture as grips, guards & stocks.

Ah ., The number of DEATHS WORLDWIDE every year is around 60 MILLION per YEAR.

Marty K.