Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Jesse Watters blasts Stephen Colbert on Rittenhouse verdict | Guy Benson Show" video.

@jeffsimpson1421 I remember a time when people didn't conflate "legal" and "normal." I haven't seen any 17-year-olds walking around with rifles and vests in my city. Most people haven't. In fact, you probably haven't. Nobody said it was normal. It is, however, legal in a lot of places. In fact, it used to be legal in even more jurisdictions. You know, back in the day? In fact, it was even a lot more normal to see teens with rifles then, too. Yeah. Back then, there were actually quite a lot of teenagers who had rifles/shotguns with them wherever they went - they just had them in their vehicles. It was perfectly normal to have a long gun in your vehicle. Go to any suburban or rural high school and you'd find parking lots full of vehicles with long guns in them. It was weird to find that said vehicles were even locked, yet nobody was gunning down their classmates. The guns have always been here and were once a much bigger part of our culture. Since that's true, maybe it's time to start focusing on the underlying causes of violence, rather than talking about the 'scary' 17-year-old with a gun - that he used to defend himself from said violence.
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@jbarton1541 You poor, misguided soul. Let me help you. A little history lesson for you: Back in the 80's school kids liked to make up meanings for different hand gestures. It's not surprising because their parents liked to make up nonsense about symbolism on things like Marlboro cigarettes. Anyway, kids started deciding that the "Okay" hand gesture kinda looked like a 'W' and a 'P.' Of course, it was declared that this meant "White Power." It spread around, as things like that do, and a good laugh was had by anyone who wasn't a moron. The best part was when you convinced some poor schmuck it was true and they would flash it to groups of Neo-NAZIs, thinking it was doing something to keep them safe (it wasn't). The looks on their faces were good for a laugh. In fact, more than a few people caught beatings from said NAZIs because they thought the person was hitting on them, or mocking them (that part wasn't funny). Fast forward a few decades and we come to the era of Internet trolls. Some of the most prominent of which are the members of 4chan. One day, they decided to take the old trope and spread it around on the Internet, to see if they could get stupid people to believe it. Well, it worked. Stupid people in the corporate media ran with it and stupid people who believe everything corporate media says believed it. Those who knew the truth of the symbol's origin were happy to continue trolling the stupid people because, frankly, it was funny. Even Right and Far Right groups got in on the joke, which of course made the stupid people feel completely vindicated in their idiocy. However, now the joke has gone too far. Stupid people are actually trying to persecute people over a hand gesture that has no actual ties to NAZIism. So, here we are, having this discussion. I know it hurts to learn this but you've been duped. You were guided by stupid people into believing a stupid thing. You were way too trusting and now you just look foolish to the millions upon millions of people who were in on the joke. Please, feel free to spread the word amongst your fellow dupes. I know it's embarrassing to admit to falling for such an obvious joke but really, it's better than being willfully ignorant in the face of the truth. I wish you good fortunes and a fulfilling life.
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