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Carlin did not care much for guns either way
Why is Carlin's picture under this quote?
Why was Carlin so good? Because he told it like it was. Rant from another truth teller.
Is that quote from Carlin or Sanders?
Putting Carlin's picture under the quote is misleading.
Franklin Sanders is one more loose cannon running around the U.S. that fits right in with Rush, Alex Jones and the rest.
Spent hours researching this guy the other weekend - I stand with my position.
Sigh - not going back and formulate a list of everything I perused for someone else's amusement. If I tell someone I researched something, it actually happened, didn't stop at the headlines either.
Why was Carlin so good? Because he told it like it was. Rant from another truth teller.
"That’s it! I’ve had it with the stupid Gnosticism I hear everywhere, but especially on National Proletarian Radio.
Gnosticism is the ancient Christian heresy that locates evil in things, not people. Get it straight once and for all: evil lives not in guns, wine, beer, drugs, automobiles, or money. Evil lives not in things: evil lives in men’s hearts. Lock away every gun in the world in Stalin’s closet, and people will only figure out how to bludgeon each other to death with chair legs. Removing things doesn’t help, only removing evil from the hearts of men.
And while I’m at it, stop kidding yourself. The ONLY reason you don’t live under jack-booted totalitarianism this very instant is that somewhere out there in America are 400 million guns, and the government doesn’t know where. Fear of an armed citizenry restrains them. Lose the guns, lose the restraint—that explains the gun control fervor.
One last thing: Let’s save due process and the presumption of innocence, at least in ourselves if not in the nation. I don’t know whether social media or some other propagandists have created guilt by accusation, but it won’t wash. Merely accusing somebody of wrongdoing doesn’t prove wrongdoing.
Name calling—sexist, racist, homophobe, bourgeois—proves nothing, nor can it since those concepts are all made-up rubber noses that can be twisted and kneaded to fit whoever the name-caller has targeted as the enemy. And mercy! Aren’t y’all tired of the hysterical, gossipy campaigns on Zwitter and Splitter and Spacehead and all the other infantile social media sites? They get each other all stirred up and come pouring out of their nest like fire ants, full of self-righteous venom. Pack it in, Jack & Jill—fix yourself first before you fix the world."
-Franklin Sanders