As far as Phobehole's wish:
Posted on 12/18/2015 11:36:36 AM PST by Lazamataz
Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don't sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known--as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.
I used to refer to my position on this issue as being in favor of gun control. Which is true, except that "gun control" at its most radical still tends to refer to bans on certain weapons and closing loopholes. The recent New York Times front-page editorial, as much as it infuriated some, was still too tentative. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the paper argued, making the case for "reasonable regulation," nothing more. Even the rare ban-guns arguments involve prefacing and hedging and disclaimers. "We shouldn't 'take them away' from people who currently own them, necessarily," writes Hollis Phelps in Salon. Oh, but we should.
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As far as Phobehole's wish:
Great. All government agencies and workers go first.
“Those who plow their swords into plowshares will be ruled by those that don’t.” TJ
Blah, blah, blah.
I read recently there are now nearly as many firearms in America, as their are people.
Get busy America. There is still some who need them
An intellectual argument for proving a special kind of stupid
This is silly. We should just ban murder. Why worry about a particular implement? If we banned murder then nobody would do it, with a gun or with anything else. Because obviously, if we pass a law then that makes it so.
Start with the streets of Chicago, then get back to me. Meanwhile I’ll check out Cabela’s to see what’s on sale.
Ha. You beat me to it.
I read the headline and said “Oh hell yes, it is time to buy guns, I don’t have enough money for all of them but ...” and then I saw that they said “ban” not “buy”. Good luck with your civil war fascist. And if you think no is coming to your house, no, that’s not how civil wars work.
You’ll shoot your eye out!
Molon Labe
Come and get them Phoebe.
Please, oh please — Be the first one through the door.
I smell ESTROGEN emanating from this article. If females had been in charge of things from the beginning, WE’D ALL BE DEAD. As far as 0blama is concerned, I BLAME THE WHITEY-HATING COMMIE FEMINIST AND TRANSGENDER CROSS-DRESSING NANNY WHO RAISED HIM. He is NOT a ‘man’. He is your typical fatherless ‘full of hate and retribution’ confused saboteur masquerading as a man.
The 50s were a great decade that seems to get a bad rap.
You often hear,”It isn’t the fifties anymore”.
I wish it was-—there is NOTHING wrong with optimism and the fifties had lots of it.
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Laz you should give Phoebe your gun she may like it...to win her over.
Quick, move her office into her workplace safe room!
LMAO.
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