Posted on 07/09/2016 9:07:20 AM PDT by rktman
Schieffer’s poignant words that many Americans relate to were quickly dispatched as he bemoaned the “powerful weapons of war” and how police in general “are shooting first and asking questions later”:
People are dissatisfied, they are frustrated, and they act out on these things and when you put those who are deranged into the mix, and they have access to these very powerful weapons of war, it just makes the stakes even higher. There's no excuse for some of the police shootings that we have been seeing. Police are shooting first and asking questions later. But on the other hand, you have to remember that the police are scared too of these weapons.
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If we gave up our guns, we would be sitting ducks for thugs and terrorists.
Liberals won’t disarm them, that’s for sure.
Gee, I wonder if the Founding Fathers envisioned Dumbocrat following morons largely comprising the Big Brother media of today when they drew up the First Amendment?
No CBS, the black lives matter shooter was not deranged. He was a motivated believer in the blm movement.
But you know that, don’t you.
Why don’t they ever talk about:
Crime
Drugs
Welfare
Urban public “education”
Illegitimacy rates
Discrimination by blacks?
LOL! So true!
“If we gave up our guns, we would be sitting ducks for thugs and terrorists.”
We’d also be sitting ducks for Obama/Hillary and their governments.
CBS encouraged the murders by faking “journalism”
and instead being the PRreps for criminals.
CBS is complicit with the murders.
I think Congress should pass strict press control laws. /sarcasm
That would be equally unconstitutional.
“..If we gave up our guns, we would be sitting ducks for...”
Not only for thugs and terrorists, but how about for the reason that the Second Amendment was added to the Bill of Rights??? The MAIN reason!!!
But of course with our fine, patriotic, freedom loving, liberty supporting Washington government, we have no fear of that....right???
I’ll treat your reply as a quote worth keeping. Well said and succinct.
An armed civilian population was necessary in 1787 and is still necessary now.
The Second Amendment simply protects an essential element of freedom and of ordinary human life.
If Americans were barred from owning firearms in 1787 and protecting themselves from Indians, new immigrants from Europe would simply have chosen to settle on the frontier lands run by other governments.
As the militia clause indicates, the elite didn’t want ordinary folks to have guns in 1787 either.
However, necessity in 1787 and 2016 requires ordinary people to be able to protect themselves.
We may no longer be threatened by Indians, but there are hundreds of thousands of dangerous people in our midst.
Being armed sure helped those protesting in Dallas (oh, right, they were unloaded... Per their agreement with local police in planning the rally.)
Actually, I'm amazed, within hours of the gay club being shot up by an Islamic terrorist, there were dozens of calls for banning sexy weapons popping across my feed on Facebook. After Dallas, not so much.
It is always about control with liberals. Disarm the population, they're easier to control. They get to determine when and if an armed officer might respond to your call. They get to control through 'social programs' your access to medicine and food and housing. They get to control what you get to do under those programs, adding in arbitrary rules about anything and everything including smoking (tobacco, weed's just fine.) Liberalism is all about control these days, from birth to death.
To them, we aren't sitting ducks, we're just waiting our turn for income redistribution. If we are stolen from, it is because we are advantaged over others and it is merely an equalizer event that has happened.
Of course, liberals will also surround themselves with well armed men and women, at public expense, with high walls around their homes (because walls don't work for nations.) They'll propose laws to 'ease prison congestion' by effectively making misdemeanor theft and property crimes a pat on the head if caught.
They want everything, and the one last speed bump is America's guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.
Leftist beliefs:
round up most of the ~11 million illegals - utterly impossible
round up over 100 million guns - easy as pie
Yeah, Bob. So why do you blame every gun owner for the actions of a lone lunatic?
They will have to kill me...
He did not use one of the "ugly so-called black assault weapons".
However, again, all of the signals of radicalization were there but no one connected the dots.
Which goes to show, bad guys don't care about the laws.
He ignored the laws against assaulting police officers, murder, etc.
Now contrast...there was one armed person in the protest who was carrying an AR style weapon yet he did not shoot one person.
One person with a gun obeyed the law and no one was hurt, one bad guy with a gun disobeyed the law and five were killed and seven hurt.
Libs can't see the difference.
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