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1 posted on 12/17/2012 7:30:51 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Laws won’t. Good people with equal or greater force of arms can...


2 posted on 12/17/2012 7:32:40 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: thecodont

Very well put indeed.


3 posted on 12/17/2012 7:34:07 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: thecodont

One wise commentary in the sea of idiocies, here and elsewhere.


4 posted on 12/17/2012 7:35:13 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: thecodont

Bump.


5 posted on 12/17/2012 7:45:23 PM PST by RebekahT ("Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: thecodont
That’s what some humans are and I am not sure what laws will stop them.
6 posted on 12/17/2012 7:51:49 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: scripter

ping... good read...


7 posted on 12/17/2012 8:12:06 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: thecodont

bttt


8 posted on 12/17/2012 8:17:29 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: thecodont
Well said. One important point among many in the article:

Fifth, why are these killers always men? What is it that we teach our young men in this world that makes them think it’s a mark of manliness to kill the unarmed and innocent? Whatever it is, it’s disgusting. It’s not manly to kill any unarmed human. It’s miserable, crawling cowardice.

Men have a certain passion that can be channeled for good or evil. Drive across a bridge? Almost certainly built by a man. That gas in your car? Almost certainly recovered and ship by men. Nobel Prizes? Other than literature, mostly men. Murders and crazed genocidal leaders? Pretty much all men. A sane society tells men that manhood comes with responsibilities and works to channel their passion in good ways.

Our society, on the other hand, has tried very hard to get rid of any differentiation by gender. I would argue this has unintended consequences. The concept of manhood is lost, but the male passion is still there.

9 posted on 12/17/2012 8:33:38 PM PST by Our man in washington
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To: thecodont
That tells us something about what anti-gun laws would do...Feinstein's proposed law grandfathers in all weapons already in the hands of the public - as draconian as it is, it wouldn't have stopped this killer who stole legally owned guns from his mother - anti-gun laws will do virtually nothing - but make right-thinking leftists feel so good about themselves......
11 posted on 12/17/2012 9:06:20 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: thecodont

Sorry, Ben, but why would God help us? We threw him out of public life YEARS ago.


14 posted on 12/17/2012 10:16:18 PM PST by Dick Bachert (An ARMED society is a POLITE society!)
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