Posted on 06/01/2013 12:11:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.
I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream.
But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.
And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker's podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers.
And how does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of "Northern Aggression" as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness? History lesson: It was an awful Civil War won decisively some 150 years ago. Over slavery. The Confederacy wanted to keep African-Americans in chains and President Lincoln didn't.
Sure, there were states' rights issues, but nullification, secession, and treason were settled at Appomattox Courthouse. Sure, Reconstruction left a bad taste. But, resurrecting these same things, the way South Carolina is as we speak, is to invite a return to the whole concept of a Union.
Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.
We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president's agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, "We'll put a boot in your ---, it's the American way."
Except it won't be a boot. It'll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won't do them any good.
So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks. And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along, we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.
There’s hardly anything there but bluster.
Hey Chistopher: Sorry, I just can’t fix STUPID.
LOL! This is a joke, right? This reads like a second grade book report. At least he's admitting that the Second Amendment deals with taking-up arms against the government. Or is he just blowing gerbils up his ass?
“Cretan”?
This guy is teaching journalism. No wonder the writing standards are execrable.
Yes, comment. If this writer were in front of me, he’d be picking his teeth from off the floor.
What does he have against people from Crete?
Here’s the e-mail address of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications:
Is this what the moderates wanted? People like this running our country?
This op-ed is gibberish. The reasoning of gungrabbers is infantile.
Poor thing, he’s to smart to see the big picture.
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“Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.”
This individual never swore an oath or he would have a clue just who and what he was defending.
Right out of the box, we get this: “Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.”
I’m sure the celebration was about more than just background checks, because we have had those for far too long.
...and frankly I’m not an NRA member for a whole host of reasons, mostly concerning the fact that NRA has been around for every egregious attack on the Second Amendment since 1871. Everyone of them classified as an attack on “shall not be infringed”. All the NRA seems able to do is be the quintesseneial whipping boy for “joinalists like Mr. Christopher Swindell.
Though they would like to be a non-partisan in a very partisan business, it has been proven over and over and over, that position will gain you nothing in the battle for retaining God given rights.
I just love how Mr Swindell gets all puffy chested over his outrage at what he views as a very partisan organization that is clueless on his issue. Well, we don’t agree, but for an entirely different set of issues.
...and speaking of liars, this would be a quote from said join a list, “The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That’s treason, and it’s worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator”.
If I thought for one minute that there was an ounce of truth to that comment, I would be an NRA member in a heartbeat. I know it isn’t true and we have a hundred and forty plus years of solid evidence as proof positive. Oh if we need just one more little bit of proof, just look at the machine gun comment above and try to figure how those rebels will be toting machince guns when essentially they have been ruled out for the normal citizen, by the 1934 and 1987 “common sense” gun control legislation.
Much more could be said about the above, but for this discussion I leave it as is.
Mr Swindell in no more than another useful idiot, in the fight over good vs evil. It is quite obvious he stands on the side of evil over individual rights enumerated in the Constitution. I could go on and on, but to quote another useful idiot, “what difference does it make”.
I’LL TELL YOU ONE THING
PARAGRAPH SIX COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ANY NUMBER OF JACKASSED NORTHERN WHAT CULTURE WAR TYPE SOCIAL LIBERALS WHO INFECT THIS FORUM AND CAN BE FOUND DAILY DEMEANING THE LAST CULTURAL REDOUBT IN THE NATION......AND THEY ARE TOLERATED.
I went to the Marshall University website, and tried to find any reference to “Christopher Swindell”, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone by than name on their faculty.
DR. CHRIS SWINDELL
Broadcast Journalism
MU Report, Adviser
(304) 696-2729
swindell@marshall.edu
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http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=883043
ULoop - Chris Swindell
http://marshall.uloop.com/professors/view.php/377592/Chris-Swindell
Here’s another goodie by this feller.
http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201108280916
Wonder what his opinion is on “Obamar’s” policies?
“Obamar” he was trying to poke at the stupid rednecks, right? But isn’t adding the R at the end a northeastern thang?
I sent a message to the email address in post #8.
I googled him and found another article of him ranting about the tea party.
His grammar and knowledge of history make me wonder about the quality of a Marshall University education.
This idiot knows nothing about Sarah Palin..
He punched a few conservative buttons but exposed himself as a moron..
This guy has ten foot pole marks all over over him..
I wouldn’t soil my pole on him..
No doubt this slug leaves a trail of mucus where ever he slides..
He’s trolling chicken wings thru a trailer park..
Looking for people that believes ‘rastlin is not an act..
It’s easy to understand why journalism is in the sewer, while colleges hire Swindell as a professor. It’s no wonder we don’t have a free press.
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