"Common sense"

squirrels · Jan 31, 2013

Why are the Progressives allowed to throw this term around without explaining it?

Nothing should be taken at face-value like that. Hitler thought it was "common sense" to support the creation of a master-race. "Common sense" is really a way of saying, "I think this, and if you don't, you're crazy". There's nothing COMMON about it at all.

Politicians should not be able to throw this term about. When one of them says they favor "common sense" regulation, they should be asked to clarify what they consider to be "common sense". If they say a certain action is "common sense", they should be required to explain WHY it is "common sense", so their true argument can be exposed.

If politicians are allowed to throw around the term "common sense" without being challenged as to either the commonality or the sensibility of what they are proposing, they will use it to justify ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they want to do.

Call them on it. If they make a claim that something is "common sense", don't let them get away with it...MAKE them explain why it makes "sense" and how they feel it is "common" when there are so many public opinions to the contrary.

"Common sense" has nothing to do with commonality or sensibility. It's empty rhetoric, an attempt to justify an unfavorable position by disparaging and insulting their opponents. It's essentially saying, "I don't have to explain myself...if you don't agree, it's because you're too stupid to get it".

daNattyFatty · Jan 31, 2013

Because exactly what you said.

They're allowed to throw it around, because people won't call them on it. The general public is far too willing to be spoon fed what the mainstream media spews on TV.

n1hook · Jan 31, 2013

Their plan is to require licensing and registration, then if/when hilary becomes president she will confiscate

The purpose of registration and licensing is to positively identify person's and location for the confiscation

Notice the Baltimore County Police Chief did not talk about the degrading of morality and religion, violent video games and movies. He also did not talk about jihadist threats new one published today threatening lone wolf attacks in the United States.

Video games that portray violence are used by the military to train and condition soldiers for battle.

K31 · Jan 31, 2013

To me saying something is "common sense" is basically an omission that you haven't thought about it much. It is the easy answer, group-think, popular opinion. It's the logic that you tried to use on your mother when you were 5 years old, "but Mom. Everybody's doing it".

Yes, concepts like "more guns, less crime" are not common sense, they are counter intuitive. They require abstract thought. Counter intuitive thinking can save your life.

Let the anti's have "common sense" I'd rather be thought of as an independent thinker.

Maverick0313 · Jan 31, 2013

Make them watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqiS3f4gxCQ

MDFF2008 · Jan 31, 2013

Why don't we start using it?

teratos · Jan 31, 2013

gprimr1 said:
Why don't we start using it?

You're so funny.

Second Amendment · Jan 31, 2013

Common Sense.
Fair Share.
Balanced Approach.
Increased Revenues.
Climate Change.
Man Caused Disasters.

Blah Blah Blah.. :blah:

Reaper812 · Jan 31, 2013

Are government has no common sense that's the problem!

Shift · Jan 31, 2013

n1hook said:
... Video games that portray violence are used by the military to train and condition soldiers for battle.

Really?

squirrels · Jan 31, 2013

Second Amendment said:
Common Sense.
Fair Share.
Balanced Approach.
Increased Revenues.
Climate Change.
Man Caused Disasters.

Blah Blah Blah..

'zactly. It's rhetoric...words and terms that most people accept without considering, used to justify a position when the person holding it is unable or unwilling to effectively argue.

It's sad when the people who are elected to be blowhards on Capitol Hill/in Annapolis essentially cop out.

MaxVO2 · Jan 31, 2013

daNattyFatty said:
Because exactly what you said.

They're allowed to throw it around, because people won't call them on it. The general public is far too willing to be spoon fed what the mainstream media spews on TV.

****Unfortuately, the MSM has been VERY successful in spoon feeding their liberal agenda, anti 2a position for some time now. Every crazy guy (preferably white) that goes out and shoots people, or barricades himself, takes hostages, etc.. is national news now. You RARELY ever hear of citizens defending themselves with firearms from criminals in the regular national media - it doesn't fit their agenda. Never mind that violent crime, including crimes committed with firearms have been on the decline since the early 1990's and that crime committed with "assault style weapons" is almost NEVER done. Doesn't fit the agenda..

Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago had 500 murders last year, and has the strictest gun control laws in the nation - it should be a socialist utopia free of crime and poverty yet it is a disaster area of absent fatherhood, violent crime, drug use, and very low literacy rates amongst its students/and high dropout rates. The only folks that have guns in Chicago are criminals yet the media rarely ever discusses why a city with a ban on handgun ownership is the murder capital of the country....

So ya, "common sense" is a liberal term that been successfully used by liberals and their lackeys in the media to really paint legal gun owners exercising their constitutional right as well as universal right to defend themselves as a bunch of right wing kooks who want to take "law" into their own hands rather than let the professionals in law enforcement protect them using (wait for it....) firearms...

This is all very disgusting to me and I am shocked at how quickly our side has been marginalized to where even pointing out facts regarding violence, gun control and the role of the NRA in firearm safety. Our side just gets shouted down by the professional left (the media), and an increasing number of average left leaning folks that don't think critically about the issue but "feel" something has to be done about those killer assault rifles, cop killer bullets, gun show loopholes, and criminals not being literate enough to read the "gun free zone" signs on the schools due to a failure of schools to teach them to read (so they stay shooting each other in the **shhhhh*** Black and Latino neighborhoods...)

Mobile · Jan 31, 2013

Common sense is a slogan, not a policy.

Gun control is about turning trite slogans into convoluted, nonsensical, ineffective policies.

Mr H · Jan 31, 2013

No one should be allowed to use the term without first reading Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."

Just sayin'.....

GoGoGadget · Jan 31, 2013

I've been noticing that in a lot of MSM articles lately, they spell "common sense" as a compound word, "commonsense".

Every time I read the word "commonsense", it screams of Newspeak a la Orwell. Drives me nuts.. doubleplusbad.

Eviljagtech · Jan 31, 2013

Common Sense, so rare it should be a super power

Robert · Jan 31, 2013

squirrels said:
Why are the Progressives allowed to throw this term around without explaining it?

Nothing should be taken at face-value like that. Hitler thought it was "common sense" to support the creation of a master-race. "Common sense" is really a way of saying, "I think this, and if you don't, you're crazy". There's nothing COMMON about it at all.

Politicians should not be able to throw this term about. When one of them says they favor "common sense" regulation, they should be asked to clarify what they consider to be "common sense". If they say a certain action is "common sense", they should be required to explain WHY it is "common sense", so their true argument can be exposed.

If politicians are allowed to throw around the term "common sense" without being challenged as to either the commonality or the sensibility of what they are proposing, they will use it to justify ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they want to do.

Call them on it. If they make a claim that something is "common sense", don't let them get away with it...MAKE them explain why it makes "sense" and how they feel it is "common" when there are so many public opinions to the contrary.

"Common sense" has nothing to do with commonality or sensibility. It's empty rhetoric, an attempt to justify an unfavorable position by disparaging and insulting their opponents. It's essentially saying, "I don't have to explain myself...if you don't agree, it's because you're too stupid to get it".

Mooseman · Jan 31, 2013

Sadly, sense is not so common these days.

occbrian · Jan 31, 2013

When you don't have scholarly, judicial, statistical or factual basis for your proposed bill and your opinion is based solely on conjecture and anecdotal (at best) evidence.

Omnipotent · Jan 31, 2013

The only Common Sense I am aware of is the pamphlet that was written by Thomas Paine that quite literrally changed the world. Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

Maybe we should hand this pamphlet out to the GA so they can too, remember how and why America is here today.

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/singlehtml.htm

If you've not read it, you should...its a good read, even if it is written in the Queen's English.

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