Worst possible case, having one or two innocent people nicked by stray bullets here and there is a small price to pay for not having places like Auschwicz or Belsen Bergen in your country. The odds are about like those of getting hit by lightning.
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:39:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist
I'm not even a rabid pro-gun person--never owned one, don't want one, someone in my family was almost killed by a nut with one--but this article is Exhibit A in Strained Logic. Someone commits a crime with a gun, and Nugent approving of gun use is somehow connected, in some fuzzy way, somehow... Uh, ok.
Worst possible case, having one or two innocent people nicked by stray bullets here and there is a small price to pay for not having places like Auschwicz or Belsen Bergen in your country. The odds are about like those of getting hit by lightning.
I see this is an unbiased article! I stopped reading right there. No reason to continue.
There should be a mega barf alert in the header :)
"The NRA's hands-off approach to gun regulation ensures that hundreds of millions of weapons remain in American society..."
Well, them or the 2nd Amendment.
So what's wrong with this statement? I believe the same thing!
The Nuge for Senate! He moved to Texas recently and Hutchison is retiring IIRC...let's draft Ted!
Easy enough to remedy this situation. Which weapon did the bullet come from?
1) Citizen being robbed - civil suit for reckless endangerment. Assault charges if he drew the weapon and his life was not in danger.
2) Criminal who used a firearm in the commission of a crime. Go straight to jail, do not collect $200. Hopefully the criminal rights lobby won't get him free.
What does Ted Nugent and NRA members have to do with this? By that liberal windbag's logic the entire press should be banned because some 'journalists' fabricate stories.
"It would be interesting to hear violence-mongering simpletons like Ted Nugent explain to Anna Maria Moreno how guns keep you safe." -Jim Spencer
It would be interesting to hear crime-apologist Jim Spencer explain to an unarmed and vulnerable population how being unable to defend one's self is keeping them safe.
And if guns are so bad and crime-breeding, why do police have them then?
Or perhaps Mr. Spencer can explain to a rape victim that ballistically defending herself is more of a crime in his eyes than what the rapist did.
I guess in Mr. Spencer's world, everything is okay if you wish it away.
Gun control means hitting the target... that is the first thing you gotta know.
And were either of the shooters former felons who could not legally carry a concealed weapon? Gee, that isn't mentioned here for some STRANGE reason.
Self-evident in the words 'Denver Post' and 'editorial'... 8~)
Gun culture .... yep, that derned gun culture. Stupid gun culture, Minutemen (not today's ones, but the 1776 ones) and all that. I wish the gun culture would be dismantled. /sarcasm
I would pay to see this pantywaist call Nuge this to his face.
This column ran on the anniversary of Columbine? Hey, let's get Michael Moor to "weigh" in while we're at it.
I doubt that the "Nuge" supports the right for criminals like that motorcycle thief to posess undoubtedly illegal guns any more than anyone else does. I suspect the bike's owner probably didn't own his gun legally either, and if he did he should have spent more time practicing. It is sad that people like Moreno get caught in situations like this, and exemplify the rule that you should always be sure of your backstop when employing a firearm, but I didn't see anything in there about a cop standing by to prevent that low-life from stealing that motorcycle. If the owner hadn't had a gun, he would probably still have tried to physically prevent the theif from stealing, and would have gotten killed for his trouble. Result, one dead kid, and the bike is stolen anyway. In this case, I see that the owner's gun prevented that theft.
How does someone who doesn't drink and has never done drugs become a burn-out?
What a load of ... Life isn't fair. Bad things happen to innocents. More bad things happen to unarmed innocents.
Re your point 1). In Texas it is legal to use deadly force to defend property. The suit for reckless endangerment might still fly, but the assault charge wouldn't. I think that might go for a few other states as well, though not sure about colorado.
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