AS179: Tommentary: 2nd Amendment Needs To Go; Blaming Atheism for Atheist Killers
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 12 October 2015
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Yeah I decided to just try to pack it all into the title…. Here’s a link to an article I discuss: http://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2015/10/02/atheist-tribalism-poisons-everything/ Is atheism at all culpable for atheist shooters? If we say no, are we being hypocritical when we blame Islam for terrorism? I think I have a pretty good answer. Also, politicizing tragedies is … Continue reading AS179: Tommentary: 2nd Amendment Needs To Go; Blaming Atheism for Atheist Killers
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 179 and I'm your host |
| 0:35.8 | Thomas Smith. All right well I've got a bit of an action-packed week for you. |
| 0:40.3 | First off I'm finally going to be able to to tormentate on some key issues that are going on. |
| 0:46.0 | And then Thursday I've got a guest and it's fully packed. |
| 0:50.0 | You are getting plenty of bang for your buck this week because I'm not I would normally do a two-parter on it but I'm not going to do it. It's just going to be a one it's going to be a nice long one-parter on Thursday for reasons that may become apparent then. |
| 1:05.3 | So action-packed week and well let's just get started with that commentary music I think that |
| 1:11.4 | would probably be the best idea. |
| 1:13.2 | Well, another shooting, of course. |
| 1:24.0 | It's no secret that that's what I was going to talk about, but I've got, I've got a lot of different things to talk about with this one, stuff that I haven't talked about before. |
| 1:32.0 | I want to touch on gun |
| 1:33.8 | control a little bit now I don't know how many of you listen to Sam Harris's |
| 1:38.2 | podcast I did and it was interesting definitely made me think about a lot of stuff |
| 1:45.0 | Because I'm very anti-gun I think I'm not but I'm not pro full ban every gun. I don't think that's necessary and I think there are plenty of good uses for guns. |
| 1:58.4 | But I am anti-automatic weapon, which is something that actually I don't think Sam Harris is let me |
| 2:04.8 | just this isn't going to be a Sam Harris show don't worry I just want to summarize a |
| 2:09.2 | couple key points that he made his basic thesis is that he believes the right for someone to be able |
| 2:17.1 | to defend themselves responsibly is strong enough that we ought to be able to own a gun. |
| 2:24.3 | Now he also prefaces everything he says |
| 2:26.9 | with the fact that he'd be for stronger gun control |
| 2:29.8 | than anyone is proposing, which I actually think is very important because what I want to do is |
| 2:34.7 | just leave it there I just want to say I am in favor of stronger gun control than anyone else is |
| 2:40.4 | proposing kind of like Sam Harris did but then he went on to speak for |
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