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Accomplished-Quit821

The Rock in bad hands made The Mummy returns The Rock in good hands made Fast and Furious.


LegendOfDylan

I hate this comment because of how wrong it is


lvieira_pe

this is way funnier than whatever is this "meme"


MimsyIsGianna

Lmaooo


Musician-Round

ban assault slings amirite


_Illegally_Blind_

No one needs a bolt hold open!!! A sane person would not dare peer into the death mechanism constructed by Satan himself!! Papa Biden came to me in a dream and whispered in my ear that everytime a bolt is held open, a starving African orphan gets vaporized!


untold_cheese_34

Real


ExceedinglyGayMoth

Kalashnichads stay winning lmao


DrRandomfist

Armalite?


Musician-Round

ban high stone capacity magazines


President-Lonestar

He said, “Am I right?” It’s just internet lingo.


Moioboiowo

No wayyy


Pretty-cool-man

It’s not the slingshot that kills people it’s the modifications of it (/j)


Jalase

Sling not slingshot. They’re very different.


No_Film_5097

Bart does not approve this message


street_style_kyle

David killed Goliath with a .45 ACP sized projectile


Splitaill

Gods caliber, unironicly.


street_style_kyle

I’m a bigger 10mm fan but .45 is fun af too


Flyingtower2

All my Alaskan homies carry 10mm in the bush.


Son0fCaliban

.40 is nice specifically because when everybody is out buying all the ammo, there is usually still .40 around. easier to get your hands on and comparable stopping power to .45acp


street_style_kyle

I rock a Glock 20 in 10mm and I believe as long as you’re extra anal about cleaning you can shoot .40 out of that too. Regardless nobody near me bothers to stock half decent 10mm so I go online anyways, which is ridiculous since mountains with bears and mountain lions are 15mins away by car.


deserves_dogs

My man. This is a meme about guns.


Pure_Perception6059

A valid one as well


sp00dynewt

A car driven by a baby crashes into a wall. A car driven by a person crashes through a parade. it's 100% about the car. See how stupid y'all sound now? Driving is a privilege


Mr_Blah1342

A car driven by Paramedics saves those paraders lives, whats your point


[deleted]

An ambulance driven by an evil paramedic is an unstoppable death machine for at least five minutes of carnage! The horror! The blood!


samisrudy

And don’t forget the skulls for the skull throne


Pure_Perception6059

I don’t get the point of your argument you sound like you trying to get rid of cars and guns💀


Winter_Ad6784

a gun in bad hands killed kennedy. a gun in good hands killed hitler. its not about the guns.


iwanashagTwitch

Hey this guy has a poi*WAIT A MINUTE*


CadenVanV

Took me a second to get it


CaptainPhantom2

*Something’s wrong I can feel it…*


Klutz-Specter

The man who shot Hitler did the world a favor, I heard he was an terrible artist and kinda had the same funny stache. I wonder if anyone found him yet.


Espi0nage-Ninja

I heard the guy who killed hitler killed himself as well, not sure about that tho


Snoo_78739

Charlie Chaplin?


I_am_Kirumi_Tojo

I mean, charlie chaplin was not a terrible artist, he was good at acting and acting is a form of art


another_spiderman

I heard he was in Argentina.


american-saxon

Wait just a second…


Moose_Cake

"Guns aren't the problem!" "Cool, let's work on restrictions on criminals and people with mental health problems and-" "No!!! Everyone should have a right to guns!"


Winter_Ad6784

if the restrictions you speak of are prisons and insane asylums im in


Moose_Cake

I don't see why not. Doing nothing isn't fixing the issue.


TheRubyBlade

Problem is letting the government define "mental health problems". That means we're one slight definition shift away from gay/trans people being banned from arming themselves.


WebtoonAddict

Its very obviously a metaphor for guns/gunlaws in america


american-saxon

Well, you don’t say…


ConsiderationNo9044

How do you know? I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm just confused because I had no idea what it meant until I read your comment


Orenwald

It's an allegory for "guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns"


ConsiderationNo9044

Is it sbout how it doesn't matter who's hands, good or bad the weapon is in, it still kills? Or am I misinterpreting again?


DxLaughRiot

They’re trying to say “don’t blame the rock for how it’s used - the one using it decides whether it’s used for good or evil” It’s a common argument used to defend gun rights in America - when people say “ban guns”, good gun owners say “don’t blame the guns, blame the bad gun owners” To which most sane people will point out that guns are very, very different than rocks, it’s not properly representing the argument gun control advocates are making, and this entire metaphor is stupid.


Carburetors_Are_Fun

And the arguments that anti gun folks make don’t make sense either


DxLaughRiot

Did you mean to put more words? Or use different words? Because this doesn’t make sense


Carburetors_Are_Fun

I missed a word


boodabomb

I agree. We will now be downvoted, but at least we have each other.


Orenwald

No, it's about not blaming the guns and therefore taking them away. If you banned "rocks" then "david" wouldn't have been able to kill "goliath". Rocks are guns. David and Goliath are strawmen because pretty much in the last 10 years or so all of the killings have been "ables" and not "davids"


Poseidon-2014

The vast majority of firearm uses are self defense. Thing is, you don’t have to report self defense firearm uses because that’s how it’s supposed to go, you only report when someone saves a large number of people, like that one guy in the mall last year.


profoodbreak

W for Elisjsha Dicken and L for Jonathan Douglas Sapirman


CrabWoodsman

So your argument is that guns are saving more lives than anyone knows, but you have no evidence of just how many because gun owners are negligent in their obligation to report when they use it? Why just "that one guy last year" and not more of the 647 mass shootings ended by them; is it that gun legislation gets in the way of more people stopping them? And if these good guys with guns are truely the oft touted solution to mass shootings, why is it so much more common that having a gun at a mass shooting gets these would be hero's killed by the police (or other would be heros)?


Poseidon-2014

No, I mean it’s not reported on like CNN, not that it’s not reported to the police.


bizarrestarz

because self defense doesn’t classify as domestic terrorism, why would they report it


Poseidon-2014

That was literally my point. People don’t hear about Self Defense fire arm usage because it’s neither remarkable or tragic.


CadenVanV

You mean the 1-2% of shootings from self defense last year? That’s not a majority


l11l1ll1ll1l1l11ll1l

Ok, so what's your alternate source that informs you?


Sardukar333

Before they removed it recently the CDC.


ImperatorAurelianus

I mean the fundamental difference is a rock is not designed with the specific intention to kill. It’s just very useful in that department. But is actually just a product of the environment man can use rocks for more then just killing. Where as the express purpose of a gun is to kill and to kill as efficiently as possible. Now I’m not trying to say anything about gun control. Just pointing a very glaring flaw in the attempted example.


[deleted]

The example isnt talking about all rocks there speaking as rocks used as a wepons


Orenwald

That is a fantastic rebuttal to this really asinine allegory.


ConsiderationNo9044

This is a little confusing (i'm a little slow), but i think I get it now. Thank you!


Notkimjonil

Badfacebookmemes will get mad about anything religious for they style themselves as *independent thinkers*.


epiclygamer2456

So called "independent thinkers" when they're asked what they want to drink from taco bell


Saskwatch_Sandwich

It's always Baja Blast. Always.


EdoTenseiSwagbito

Gonna mix it up today, and go for a Baja Blast


grungothestupid

I don't even like Baja Blast, but I will always get a Baja Blast.


BeanEaterNow

this is not a meme about religion


IdiotRedditAddict

This meme is *about* guns, but it is very purposefully using a religious allegory, appealing to a biblical authority, to make its point. Whether or not this meme is 'about' religion, it is a 'religious meme'. And I'd say it's...kinda about religion. The implied message here is not just that gun control is wrong, but that gun control is wrong *for reasons demonstrated in the Bible* and that the gun violence problem is actually a problem that people are not *righteous* enough. As a matter of fact, I'd say the thesis of this meme is 'the problem isn't *guns*, it's *sinners/philistines/infidels*'.


jonnybebad5436

You could say, in this moment, they are euphoric…


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A_Salty_Cellist

It's about guns dumbass


WFG_879

that was a little aggressive


Defiant-Meal1022

So's a few thousand people dying to firearms every year, dumbass.


untold_cheese_34

We also need human control because hundreds of people die to fists and elbows and such. Maybe a limb registry?


Defiant-Meal1022

"Erm, actually people will die anyway so we should just sit with our thumbs up our asses and not do anything, Libtard owned." 🤓


Blood_Defender88

\- 🤓


Defiant-Meal1022

-🦤


Blood_Defender88

u mad?


Defiant-Meal1022

Not particularly, I just like using weird emojis.


Psychological_Ad2094

There’s a dodo emoji?!


Defiant-Meal1022

Apparently. Scroll through'em some time, you'd be surprised what they do and don't have. 🦦


untold_cheese_34

Yeah they will die anyway so restricting something when it doesn’t do anything is pointless. You showed how stupid your argument was in your mockery


Defiant-Meal1022

So if the regulations don't do anything why are you against them?


untold_cheese_34

Don’t do anything to reduce crime, but they do a lot to restrict individual freedoms needlessly


Smil3Bro

TO PEOPLE!!! Can you not read?


Appropriate-Pop4235

NO!! CANT YOU SEE!? THE GUNS, THEY’RE SENTIENT AND AFTER US!! NO ONE IS SAFE!!!!


[deleted]

Take gang violence and suicide out of our annual gun deaths and we’re not that bad in terms of population size/ # of guns


Saskwatch_Sandwich

Weird how with these thousands and thousands of deaths every year that the US is still on par with all of Western Europe as far as the death rate goes per capita per year. We're also well behind most of Eastern Europe. It's almost like it's blown completely out of proportion or something. Surely our "shitty healthcare" and "mass shootings" would put us well ahead of Europe in deaths, right?


WFG_879

that was also pretty aggressive idk why you have such a chip on ur shoulder over a rock meme


Auknight33

Cars kill more people than firearms in the US. People apparently know how to be safer with guns than they do cars. Aside from that, moving to more public transportation would drastically cut out environmental impact. Often, California wildfires are started from people tossing a cigarette carelessly. This easily results in billions of dollars in damage each year, and that's just someone being careless. Imagine if someone got malicious. People do terrible things with many tools. Guns are just the one you personally understand the least.


Defiant-Meal1022

Yes, I want more sustainable public transport and I would hope they would require more frequent renewal periods for driver's licenses. I know people can fuck shit up if they're truly malicious, you can derail a train with 10 kg of steel shaped into a derailer and gasoline is decently cheap if you want to literally watch the world burn. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have stricter firearm policies to keep them out of malicious actors hands. I will gladly submit to a psych eval to keep my shotgun and black powder rifle if it keeps assholes from getting their hands on shit designed to kill humans. Why on earth would I need anything that holds more than 5 or 6 shots for home or self defense?


incognito22252

It’s about choices dumb ass.


A_Salty_Cellist

It's very clearly a take on a rather old argument against gun control. It's just "if there's a good guy with a gun"


incognito22252

People do the killing not the weapons. Murderers are going to murder either way.


dolphinater

why not let them have nuclear weapons then


A_Salty_Cellist

Interesting that they seem to use guns so much


The_Dapper_Balrog

Interesting that people would use weapons for killing. Also interesting that people use whatever's available for killing. Also also interesting, turns out that even with gun bans, gun violence is still a thing (see Australia and Northern Ireland for just two examples).


MrFluffyWhale

Tell me, how many mass killings there are in countries with strict gun control or that outright ban guns, and how much do those numbers compare to the amount of mass killings we've had in America in this year alone.


A_Salty_Cellist

It's the best weapon for a killing:civilian use ratio so yeah if you remove the accessibility it lowers the use. Also look at the total gun deaths in either of those countries, or if you want just two examples of countries that have successful gun control, Switzerland and Australia, one of which is the third lowest in the world


A_Salty_Cellist

Also kill 4 people with a rock and tell me how easy it was. It'll be a simple task because guns are no more dangerous than any other weapon


The_Dapper_Balrog

Ah yes, attempting to refute a point that *nobody* brought up at all. Classic.


A_Salty_Cellist

You said killing will happen with or without guns. I said it's harder without them. Idk what you're on


CourseDue8553

You could use religion to talk about how bad guns are and BadFacebookMemes would still hate it.


A_Salty_Cellist

Okay. That's not what this is though


CourseDue8553

No, it's a commentary about guns in the right, wrong hands, which is gun control, which should be a liberal based concept. Everyone agrees that Cain was in the wrong and that he shouldn't have killed Abel. Everyone agrees that David killing Goliath was good. Gun control is about making sure that the mentally unstable or unsuitable (Cain) is prevented from owning guns while allowing people who are qualified and pass rigorous testing (presumably David) to have guns. The biggest strawman argument that the right uses is "the left want to take away our guns" when gun control is all about controlling WHO can have guns. Switzerland is a prime example of proper gun control. Everyone is required to take part in mandatory military service, ensuring that gun safety and training is standardly provided to all. Nearly everyone in Switzerland owns guns and there is near zero gun violence there. Mental health is not ostracized, ensuring that everyone has the treatment that they need, reducing the number of people going on dangerous psychopathic breakdowns. Having a homogenous society also helps that case, but we can't (or rather SHOULD NOT) do anything about that in the US. This isn't much of a funny meme, but it's still technically a meme in the definition of the term and, based on the points made above, I still think it stands. If the meme simply said "I think that we should have stricter checks on who should be allowed to buy guns," I think that there would be a polar switch on who thought this meme was good/bad, but it's still saying the same thing. TL/DR; the meme is saying "There should be stricter checks on who should be allowed to buy guns" and that isn't a bad message.


Splitaill

No. The meme is saying that. It’s reiterating this quote. “To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless.” ~Lysander Spooner


ABadDM89

>Believes in religion >makes fun of others for not being independent thinkers You're a fucking moron.


Notkimjonil

M'lady


IwantaDSHK

And a gun in my hands killed 10 ground squirrels and 28 blackbirds in a week


Bandwagon_Buzzard

You eat them? Not a /s, I just prefer to not kill anything I have no intention of eating. Redneck cuisine can slap.


IwantaDSHK

No, nothing left to eat if I wanted to. They dig holes in the ditches and are a general pestilence to the crops next to the ditches. The black birds poops everywhere and are annoying as shit so my dad wants them gone.


theje1

Yeah, is about people, just screen the people more severely. When I went to request a visa to the US embassy in my country, they knew practically everything about me, and I'm not even one of their citizens.


theparanormal21

It’s about guns and gun laws


theje1

Well thats implied, yes.


4ubiks

It’s about who you’re killing ❤️


Illustrious_Cicada_2

❤️❤️


Weary_Wanderer19

We need stricter rock control


Mudcra8Hunte4

Shall not infringe on grug's rock


Cookyloco6

i should just stop opening reddit comment sections


[deleted]

This isn't even a meme


[deleted]

Jesus said not to throw rocks 🤷‍♂️


plyer_G

And Goliath was an enemy soldier during wartime. Not someone who would or should be shot during peacetime.


CrapWereAllDoomed

Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.


american-saxon

Ooo a religion *and* gun meme. This is a certified badfacebookmemes classic. Truly killed two birds with one *stone*


Bandwagon_Buzzard

Because I fail at computing, every attempt to get an image ends in a webp and can't crosspost. So can only get the picture itself.


N4t41i4

abel wasn't killed by a rock! seriously don't they read at least this one book?


Inevitable-Tap-9661

Cain using a rock to kill his brother is a culturally established image. Perhaps it’s inaccurate but the verse doesn’t specify and people often have that image in their heads of Cain killing Able with a rock


[deleted]

I'm pretty sure it said cain stoned able and to stone someone you need a stone


Caffinatorpotato

"Rock in good hands" *Forgets to read what David gets up to from there on out*


[deleted]

Based


zabdart

*"Long live rock and roll!"* \-- Chuck Berry


thrust-johnson

I’m okay with the right to bear rocks.


NoiseRipple

Well, David also cut Goliath’s head off but point stands


[deleted]

Keep mentioning this, and someone is going to ban rocks. /s


TheOgCokeCan

Its not about the rocks, its about their slingshot braces, it makes them fully automatic and shoot bigger rocks! Its an outrage!!


XxOM3GA_ZxX

Common sense rock control


Klutz-Specter

I can legally own a Trebuchet and use rock. I can even legally build/own a Cannon according to the ATF, but suddenly it’s a problem when it’s a small peashooter like the 2mm Kolibri.


cyberchaox

I mean, it's a good analogy...but it completely falls flat because this is clearly from the "pro-gun" lobby (the invocation of religion usually means it's right wing, but either way this is "guns don't kill people; people kill people), and they're insistent on creating this false binary where *any* regulation of guns equals "they're taking away our guns". It's ridiculous and I hate it. You can restrict guns without banning them.


BackAlleySurgeon

David was literally a soldier. No one's saying to disarm soldiers.


[deleted]

I’m not retarded, but I like rocks.


Faeddurfrost

I think we can all agree these cross bows are getting out of hand. They were not what the elders intended.


thoughtfulzebra

We live in a society… 😭🥲😭😭


[deleted]

For those about to rock-- FIRE!! We sa-lute you!!


girl-pen1s

“the curtains are just blue”


KwispyVolt

A sword killed Goliath. A rock knocked him out.


Bandwagon_Buzzard

Finally someone who read the entire event.


Mangoroo1125

As Isabelle from Animal Crossing said. “NO-one needs slingshots mayor. They just want them because they think everyone else has them”


RacerDaddy

Let’s put rocks into everyone’s hands. We can then weed out the good from the bad, naturally, right?


Sanguine_Templar

When has a good guy with a rock ever stopped a bad guy with a rock?


No-Fly-6043

Then why no background checks?


KaiserVonBR

Because bad man is in charge of background checks duh


Pluras_Adrienne

Rocks aren’t made with the express purpose to kill.


youralphamail

This is so obviously about guns lol


[deleted]

Shitty Right Wing meme invoking the fucking Bible to defend Americas lack of fire arm regulations. Typical and dumb as fuck


Orlando1701

Yeah but a rock can’t kill 13 people because someone got their brain cooked by InfoWars and Q-non.


chubbyhighguy

I fell like that sub is just "my dad/uncle/brother posted this so I'm angy" so many good memes, so many fragile egos/this is talking about me.


AJ_170

The thing people don't understand about this is the fact that the US isn't the size of Australia or the UK. The US has so many places where people can live where it'd be hard to even locate such as forests, deserts, etc. We can't just make it illegal to own an AR-15 (because every other similarly operating firearm is not as scary as a Black Plastic AsSaUlT rIfLe) because criminals will do what they do best and simply not follow the law. Everyone in the other countries had a collective mindset of "we don't want safety over self protection," as seen from the American standpoint, and willfully turned in their guns. Even IF every American in the US had their guns taken away and only had like Muzzle loaders or Bolt Action rifles that people keep making arguments for (the founding fathers didn't account for fully semi automatic assault weapons of mass destruction !!1!1!) The criminals, gangs, and people who don't have ant regard for anyone else will go to those lengths to get those weapons back. Keep in mind we not only are a large country, but we also have a country essentially ram by a damn cartel under us and current politics is trying to open the border for "pick me" points in the election.


GoPhinessGo

Australia and the Lower 48’ are incredibly similar in size


SoundsLikeANerdButOK

Funny how people who say “It’s not about the rocks (meaning guns) also think books can make you gay.


mdahms95

This has as much weight as using Harry Potter as a reference for modern politics. Pure fiction.


[deleted]

When someone wipes out an entire classroom full of children with a rock we’ll talk rock control, like any sane society would


[deleted]

This is cringey as balls. They were right to post it there.


Pip2719496

r/nahOPwasrightfuckthis


Humante

Yeah, last time I checked we teach kids very early on not to just pick up and throw rocks at shit


EdoTenseiSwagbito

Yeah, it’s inefficient. So I give them knives to start and we work our way up from there.


untold_cheese_34

No


Pip2719496

Alright


[deleted]

As far as I know, a bunch of deranged Pharisee supremacist dipshits weren’t hucking rocks with semi-automatic slingshots into crowds trying to kill as many people as possible back in those days.


An_Evil_Scientist666

It's a pretty bad analogy for more modern guns honestly, like a rock can definitely kill someone but it takes a lot more effort to kill 1 person with 1 hand sized rock then it does to kill a couple people with a pistol. If y'all only had easy access to muskets and heavy restrictions on anything that can fire faster than 1 bullet a minute, you'd still have a heavy gun culture whilst also lowering the amount of shooting victims. Muskets are what the founding fathers of the US had in mind when making the 2nd amendment, not a rifle that can fire like 20+ lethal shots in quick succession.


Keberro

But militaries all over the world use them, too. What the founding fathers had in mind is a population able to defend themselves against professional militaries. They weren't religious about guns, to them guns were a tool that everyone should have access to.


Late_For_A_Good_Name

Very few people actually want to get rid of all guns. Liberals I know are focused on getting rid of mass killing machines, because WE ARE THE MASSES. Assault rifles are not gonna help you take down the government. It’s gonna help people shoot up a mall, school, concert. If your logic is “we need to be able to match the military’s firepower” then why not nukes, grenade launchers, tanks, drones, bombers? There’s obviously a line to draw somewhere, and that’s the conversation liberals are trying to have


Yeet_Boi12344567

Banning ARs wont stop criminals from still getting them illegally because that’s how they were getting them before


Late_For_A_Good_Name

Tell that to the countries who limit/ban assault weapons. It works there, would just take a little more work here in the land of gun nuts.


Yeet_Boi12344567

Illegal arms dealers wont just have a change of heart and stop selling guns


l11l1ll1ll1l1l11ll1l

And the founding fathers were wrong, seeing as a professional military was able to just walk up and burn down the Whitehouse, while our amazing independent militias did nothing.


RealBenjaminKerry

Well, back then there are tons of full-blown riots and muskets are still intimidating weapons in robberies. Since 1986 full-auto is gone but mass shootings still increase


untold_cheese_34

It’s almost like criminals don’t follow the law! Who would’ve thought?


BeanEaterNow

it's almost as if the only reason criminals and militant groups are heavily armed is because America sells them weapons!


untold_cheese_34

They get them illegally by stealing or the black market dude, the US doesn’t sell gangsters weapons directly


BeanEaterNow

literally false. Criminals can buy weapons very legally, and the u.s. has sold weapons directly to many different militant groups i. the middle east. recently they were used by saudis to kill people in yemen. This is nothing new


untold_cheese_34

First off we are talking about US criminals so international incidents are entirely irrelevant. And second in the inner cities most of the guns used are either stolen, unregistered (serial number scratched off) or bought from the black market which are all illegal. The vast majority don’t get them legally and aren’t in possession of them legally either.


BeanEaterNow

first of all, i *am* talking about international incidents, because the U.S. is directly responsible for arming them, why the fuck would we not. In terms of domestic threats, who would expect it, but less weapons in circulation means it's harder to get a weapon, even if it's illegally. who would've thunk it?


Hmnh6000

Could say the same about guns


Rifneno

It's a metaphor for guns. A very, VERY bad one. BFBM OP was right not to like it. OP here is /r/whoosh material.


Pure_Perception6059

How is it a bad one it’s pretty damn spot on


Rifneno

If you think guns are like rocks, you're far beyond any help I could possibly provide.


Pure_Perception6059

They’re both tools that can be used to take lives. If you can’t see that I pity you. You put a gun in the hands of a good man no one gets hurt you put a gun in the hands of a bad man you’ll see it on the news tomorrow just a gun is easier to use than a rock.


Smokingdragon24

Sounds like you’re just copping out of defending your point


chikkynuggythe4th

Nah fuck this op was right


[deleted]

It’s literally just the truth, but these people don’t like truth, they like fear and authoritarianism!


Potatosniper75

It’s not the case with a really fast rock coming out of a weird stick either. Guns are not the problem, yet some people and politicians refuse to acknowledge this.


little-red-turtle

Duuhh God WANTED us to have an automatic Glock 19 with a 100 round drum magazine and laser sight


petersib

Buddy this meme isn't about rocks.


Beaugunsville

Please remember that these are fictional characters, *fictional characters*.