Ask any one of us Homicide Victims' Survivors we can tell you that.
I've been waiting 21 years for the Fence Post Ban
sarcasm alert
Posted on 01/18/2011 1:18:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The massacre in Arizona should make every forward-thinking person in America angry. And this anger should give thoughtful people the backbone to tell the NRA that the Wild West show that they sponsor is over.
The NRA and its disciples believe that they deserve to own guns at all costs. The costs are very high; people are literally killing us, their fellow Americans, because of their gun obsession.
The massacres that happen on a fairly regular basis in our schools, work places, and now at a public gathering of an elected official are almost all committed by a person who is a legal gun owner or by someone who steals or borrows a gun from a relative who is a legal gun owner. That is the problem with guns: no one knows when a legal gun owner is going to go nuts.
Why does anybody in America need a gun that can shoot and blow away dozens of people in only 30 seconds?
We live in a country where entertainer-public figure Sarah Palin shoots animals for fun to show what a tough woman she is and to prove she is one of the guys. Palin had a map on her web site that had crosshairs on the districts of Representative Gifford and 19 other members of Congress. Palin now says the crosshairs were meant to be taken as crosshairs from a surveying instrument.
The people who promote guns at all costs (right-wing radio and television talk-show hosts) seem to be scared that our government will turn on us. If the government turns on us, it's all over anyhow, for crying out loud. The government has tanks, jets, and flame throwers.
I would like to live in a country that isn't the Wild West anymore - where nobody carried a gun. I would rather be in a crowd where if somebody had a baseball bat or a knife and went nuts they could only get one or two people before they are tackled.
It is time to pass intelligent, sane gun-control laws.
LOL OK.
I would think so. But good point. These days doctor-client privelege probably protects the insane.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I would like to live in a country that isn't the Wild West anymore - where nobody carried a gun.
Move to Japan.
Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people reserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms, the remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them."
George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them." "the British Parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith] who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that was the most effectual way to enslave them; but they should not do it openly; but to weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia."
Adolf Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall."
Hubert H Humphrey: "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has always proved to be possible."
In short to kill tyrants and other criminal predators.
We’re not talking about a “knife fight” or someone flashing a knife. Consider a crowd such as the one that Loughner approached with the majority of attention focused forward. The assailant steps up behind someone alone at the back of crowd, stealthily stabs an unseen blade into the victim’s lower back, says, “Excuse me” then quickly moves on to repeat the same maneuver. Yes, you can swarm him and bring him down — they did that with the shooter. But he can kill two or perhaps five or six folks before most of the crowd realizes there’s any kind of attack going on. If one or more of the victims begins screaming, that could easily lead to more confusion rather than less.
You, my FRiend, are FUNNY!
[I would like to live in a country that isn’t the Wild West anymore - where nobody carried a gun.]
So, what’s stopping this wuss from moving?
[There are plenty of other times people find themselves with a badguy or several badguys and going gun to gun would be a lot more advantagouse then trying to knife fight with them.]
These turds want you and I to go cell phone to gun.
Brother, you’re preaching to the preacher, not the choir.
These people suffer from obvious and debilitating mental disorders.
Ask any one of us Homicide Victims' Survivors we can tell you that.
I've been waiting 21 years for the Fence Post Ban
sarcasm alert
“I would like to live in a country that isn’t the Wild West anymore - where nobody carried a gun.”
Sounds like someone woke up from nap time at the kindergarten, and found himself in the real world. There is no such place, kid. In every country somebody has some guns- and if only a few have them, a few rule. This guy needs to grow up.
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