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10 Facts for Liberals: Why Gun Control Can't Stop Another Newtown Massacre
Townhall.com ^
| December 22, 2012
| John Hawkins
Posted on 12/22/2012 4:15:50 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:15:59 AM PST
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Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Gun control is not about stopping future shootings, it’s all about communism.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:20:35 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Got ammo, Godspeed!)
To: Kaslin
This isn’t about guns, it’s about power-power that the socialists think we’ll just casually hand to them. that isn’t how it works though. Power is never freely given, it’s taken. You want the power democrats? come and and take it-come and take it one citizen at a time. Come and take it liberals. I dare you.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:22:40 AM PST
by
RC one
(From My Cold Dead Hands.)
To: exnavy
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:22:42 AM PST
by
Kaslin
( One Big Ass Mistake America (Make that Two))
To: exnavy
There was a recent posting on FR (might have been American Thinker), which made a convincing argument that Liberalism was a religion. Gun control is part of the utopian dream and therefore a canonized tenant of the utopian religion. The idea here is that if you can start making the religious tenants come about that eventually well live in utopia. Frankly, I think utopia would be boring.
To: exnavy
They’ve kicked all their attacks on America up by several notches over the past week.
I just wish the GOP would learn some fighting tactics and put them on the defensive once in a while.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:28:35 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Kaslin
With progressives, it’s all about control! (See my tagline for more information on how I really “feel” about this issue.)
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:29:55 AM PST
by
Perseverando
(Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: Gen.Blather
tenet
And yes, that sounds pretty spot on. If you come across it again I’d love a ping, and will probably try to look for that later when I have some time.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:34:07 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Kaslin
Every law is about control. We’ve gone too far with laws and there’s always a call for just one more law. We’re always one law away from perfection.
No law can control human nature. Only the person themselves has that much control. We need to return to a fundamental understanding of human nature, Natural Law, and reality.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:51:42 AM PST
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: cripplecreek
Obayma is pushing for civil war, and totalitarian government.
Many of the sheeple still think the left means them no harm.
The reality is going to be a rude awakening.
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:51:49 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Got ammo, Godspeed!)
To: Gen.Blather; exnavy
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:52:39 AM PST
by
Perseverando
(Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: Perseverando
Yes, saw that one, great points there!
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posted on
12/22/2012 4:56:32 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Got ammo, Godspeed!)
To: 1010RD
"Do you really think we want those laws observed?" Said Dr. Ferris. We
want them broken. You better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick and you'd better get wise to it. Theres no way to rule innocent men.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? Whats there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3, Page 404
To: Gen.Blather
To: Kaslin
The fact is: there's no way to stop a homicidal maniac from fantasizing about killing people. That means if they have one way to do it stopped, they'll think of other methods. Timothy McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb. I don't want to give ideas to lunatics lurking on this forum, but obviously there are many ways to murder lots of people, particularly very young people, without the use of firearms. For instance, there have been several incidents in China in the last ten years where some maniac broke into a schoolroom and killed numerous children with just a knife.
The best ways to stop them is still to committ extremely disturbed people if possible, and to arm more people to stop the maniacs when they go off. Hire an old geezer like the old coot who stopped that robbery in the Florida casino. That old codger moved very fast and wasn't the least bit afraid to confront the armed punks.
To: exnavy
Gun control is not about stopping future shootings, its all about communism. More in general, it's moving toward a government that doesn't represent the people and fears them.
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posted on
12/22/2012 5:18:43 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: FreedomPoster
This isn't quite the article that I was thinking about but it covers the Liberalism-as-a-religion topic very well. And, yes, I meant tenet. Please forgive me oh celestial editor.
http://jaygaskill.com/liberalismasreligion.htm *snip* We face a mythic "liberal" construct in which all middle class whites are inherently racist; all heterosexual males are irredeemably sexist; and all businesses (save a select few who donate heavily to liberal causes) are bent on raping the environment. *snip* In these same minds, concern for sexual freedom and female autonomy get turned into a general doctrine that decries any attempt to regulate what adult people do with their sexual and reproductive organs.
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Also handily found on my FR profile page for quick reference.
When I first read Atlas Shrugged ~30 years ago, I never thought I’d be living in the middle of it.
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posted on
12/22/2012 5:49:10 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Gen.Blather
Thanks, will read later, about to hit the road.
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posted on
12/22/2012 5:50:11 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Kaslin
Don’t confuse a Liberal with logic.
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posted on
12/22/2012 5:50:29 AM PST
by
Kozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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