Posted on 12/17/2012 5:49:02 AM PST by Kaslin
No part of me ever thinks a world where the weak are defenseless against the strong, numerous and ill-mannered would be a better place.
Thanks for posting.
“Honest liberal.”
Scientists have discovered a new species?
Too bad we are falling back on reactionary politics, the left is exposed here. We could crush them on so many levels, but especially what they do in schools. And for those who want to attract minorities to the GOP a good many minorities hate the white libs who run the school system.
Scientists have discovered a new species?”
...that’s what I was thinking. There’s no such thing. He’ll realize the error of his ways and get back to destroying all liberty and freedom in just a moment.
Your point is a good one. Before there were guns, there were other tools, like swords, that were used as weapons. Before any types of weapons were invented, and as is true in the animal kingdom, the biological strength of the individual organism determined who was in charge and who was vulnerable. In American society today, as in any human society, there is an imbalance in protective abilities among individuals. Firearms can help protect the weak and vulnerable from the strong and immoral.
It seems to me tragedy could’ve been averted had the shooter’s mother stored her guns in a safe. I know there are those who don’t like safe storage laws, but it seems to me that if you’re going to have crazy people visiting the house, keeping the guns under lock and key might be a good idea.
Of course, people should be permitted to store their own guns however they want. As far as I’m concerned, the primary purpose of privately owned guns is political, rather than bump in the night type protection. So storage in a safe works for me.
YMMV.
I’ll have to find the link to this article and post it on the FB page of a woman from my Church who is horrified at the mere notion of guns and thinks more gun control is the answer.
It’s funny. If the Atlantic author actually believes that Canada is gun free, he’s really ignorant. Their rate of gun ownership is really quite high. It’s just in the few big cities where it is low. Of course plenty of the population is there, but once you get further north or out west guns are quite common. I also looked into Canadian gun laws recently, and they were not nearly as arduous as I had suspected. Worse than I would like, but nowhere near as bad as the UK.
Did Obama give arms to Libyans?
Did Obama arm Syrians?
Did Obama arm the Turks?
Did Obama sell small arms to Bahrain?
Did Obama arm the Mexican drug cartel?
And yet, Obama seeks to disarm law-abiding Americans.
To a liberal every crisis is just another opportunity to take away freedoms from those who do not agree with them.
In Rwanda, the machete was a popular weapon for mass killings in the most recent civil war. It never runs out of ammunition.
Last week in China, 22 school children were knifed.
For some odd reason that never made the front page of the NY Times.
After all, the First Amendment Freedom of the Press was written for an era when type had to be set by hand and papers were printed one page at a time. It's totally unsuitable for the modern era when one person can speak to the entire world at once electronically, and newspapers buy ink by the barrel.
</mirroring anti-gunners>
when I first learned about the murders, thought the world might be a better place if guns had never been invented.Sort of like my gut reaction about...
Before guns/firearms there were swords, arrows, and spears...
And before that, sticks and stones...
If the Rwandan population had been armed, those machetes would’ve been much less effective. If the population is armed, the defender usually has the advantage, and the attacker usually has a short lifespan.
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