100,000,000 were killed by their own governments in the 20th century.
That’s the REAL threat to people.
The 2nd Amendment was created to prevent mass slaughter of free citizens by their own government.
It’s worked so far...
I saw this interview on Morning Joe, which I record faithfully, and it was far and away one of the best ideological routs ever! The guy is the razor’s edge, speaking in simple terms, in low tones, and fairly slays his opposition with Socratic inquiry. Awesome.
They lay there bleeding, wondering wth just happened.
But Cooke did very well.
He was good, as was Scarborough and even what’s-his-name came up with an interesting solution - jail mommies and daddies who buy their sicko kids guns.
But isn’t this Cooke guy one of the people who is soooo veddy veddy disgusted with Trump’s oh-so-low buffoonery? I hear those cut-glass Hitchensesque accents and start grinding my teeth...
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and we left the doors open and the keys in the ignition and had NONE of the gun laws we have today after the '63 gun law to stop mail order guns. Every one had guns but they had little need to shoot people because the people feared God. Without Godly people in society, you cannot have enough police and jails.
What we have today is what we saw in Ferguson MO. breaking into stores to steal a pair of sneakers due to a perceived wrong because a man tried to kill a cop and failed. Their minds are so scrambled with the lies of the devil, they throw their lives away for nothing. Is the best we can do is take down a Confederate flag to stop an empty soul from murder?
It's the quality of the citizens we are turning out that is the problem, not having guns that have been around for hundreds of years. Why are we depressed if we know God loves us and died to save us? We need more Bible and not more pills. In my day common sense laws put people in mental institutions instead of on the streets. Can't we figure out a law that would protect the rights of grandma that forgot to pay her water bill from a son in law that wanted to inherit the farm when she gets hospitalized?
All I know is I remember a much different America from my youth that young people today have never known. We see many libertarians today that have never known the liberty we had in the '60's. Passing thousand of laws have actually harmed us instead of making a brave new world. What we had was patriotism and Christ. Anyone desecrating the flag would have been beaten up as a traitor to his country, not hailed as a hero and put on a book cover. Our founders knew a true patriot knew Christ and served him for the common good of the country. A non believer knew that we were living under the plan of the Bible even if you chose not to believe. No one was forced to pray even if the opportunity was given for everyone to pray. We pledged our allegiance to the flag even if we didn't like some things the country was doing. We all had a bond to the country because we were under a common cause for liberty.
Today, a child can not join anything and drift along in their own bubble until they are filled with every form of evil spirit that tells them to rebel. Rebel against what? God? Democracy? White people? Black people? If you have no common anchor to hold to, you can rebel against whatever slight the devil says you need to rebel against.
If you look at this guy in Oregon and the guy in S Carolina, look at their eyes. They are empty bodies of flesh filled with darkness. There is no law to pass to make a demon into a person. Certainly taking a flag from a flagpole won't change a soul, and making more "gun free zones" won't stop the killing.
It's time to look to our roots to see God's plan for a successful and blessed country. As older folks die off, there are less people that can remember what freedom even looks like. It would be interesting for a candidate to suggest we return Bible study and prayer to public school to fix the problem we have today. They would jump out of their skin and cry out about the Separation of church and State, which of course is not even listed in the Constitution. It would be an interesting argument to make about "Original Intent" if we went back to ALL the Bill of Rights" original intent. We would not "see" the right for abortion, and the Federal right to regulate marriage, and of course the writer of the 14th Amendment actually listed aliens were NOT to become citizens if they had a baby here.
Great post and the clip is so instructive on the lack of thinking skills by Mika, the Screamer, and Halperin with their repetitious “please, let’s just do something!!!” Everything discussed was reactive, not proactive.
The closing line by Cooke on being Pavlovian in their responses, especially with the White House dancing in the blood of the victims before any details were known, was an absolute grand slam.