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RATHER HAVE MY CHILD DIE THAN USE A GUN?
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Posted on 02/25/2010 8:26:53 PM PST by Neil E. Wright

RATHER HAVE MY CHILD DIE THAN USE A GUN?

If you were having trouble understanding anti-gun people, this will not help. A high school math teacher named Doug Van Gorder wrote a letter to the Boston Globe decrying the idea of having self-defense guns in schools. In part of his letter, he shows what can surely be described as one of the most telling views into the minds of gun banners. "But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."

So, he views the use of a gun for self defense as a crime, and he would rather have his child die than see a good person (assuming this applies to the police, also) use a gun to save a life.

I simply have nothing to add to that.


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To: Neil E. Wright
...he would rather have his child die than see a good person (assuming this applies to the police, also) use a gun to save a life..."Progressives" are all about being superior - intellectually superior, educationally superior, morally superior - and how much more morally superior could one be than to sacrifice one's own child in the name of remaining staunchly anti-gun.......
41 posted on 02/25/2010 9:06:52 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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Interesting he uses his child’s life not his own, as a measure.

Sad little man.


42 posted on 02/25/2010 9:14:10 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Neil E. Wright

So if a wacko waved a knife at Saint Barack, and the Secret Service gunned him down, this good progressive would object to that “gun crime” too, right? Right?


43 posted on 02/25/2010 9:19:15 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

Who would want that for a father?


44 posted on 02/25/2010 9:22:35 PM PST by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
The German word is sitzpinkler:

Sitzpinkler

Cheers!

45 posted on 02/25/2010 9:26:47 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.<)
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To: Neil E. Wright

Better that his child should be killed, than a violent criminal stopped and maybe killed with a gun? This guy is dangerously insane. Where is CPS when they’re really needed?

I wonder if he actually has any children.


46 posted on 02/25/2010 9:38:36 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Neil E. Wright

Darwinism candidate, most likely to become extinct.


47 posted on 02/25/2010 9:50:04 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: Neil E. Wright; pandoraou812
"But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."

The world is full of thugs who will be glad to arrange that outcome. The less risk to themselves that they perceive the bolder they will be about it. That uber-Progressive Joseph Stalin laid to rest a lot of academics and their children.

48 posted on 02/25/2010 10:15:46 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

...?...I got nothin’ either.

What I was going to write would have been struck down by the MOD.


49 posted on 02/25/2010 10:19:09 PM PST by b cool
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To: Neil E. Wright

It is really scary to think that this total moron is teaching kids. There is right and then there is wrong and this dude is wrong in a million different ways.
What a total idiot!!!!


50 posted on 02/25/2010 10:19:25 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: Neil E. Wright

Coward.


51 posted on 02/25/2010 10:20:57 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: marktwain

OK, this is satire. But my sister told me the same thing about her own life and she wasn’t speaking facetiously.


52 posted on 02/25/2010 10:21:54 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

One “pastor/pacifist” who said that he wouldn’t even use violence to defend the life of his children.

I pointed out to him that when I was in Africa, being shot to death was not the problem, that there were worse things that could happen, especially if he had a wife and daughters.


53 posted on 02/25/2010 10:26:02 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: Neil E. Wright

People like that have “devolved.” It’s a natural, normal human instinct to protect oneself from harm (fight or flight) and when someone says they’d rather die or bury their offspring than follow their instincts, something is fundamentally wrong with them. Maybe that’s what happened to the neanderthals?


54 posted on 02/25/2010 10:27:57 PM PST by TNdandelion (While Obama plays with his balls, Afghanistan falls.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

Words shouldn’t fail you. This is typical progressive thinking. I’m sure his children really feel safe with him.

The man is a coward to his family, students, friends and society in general. In other words, a true Obama liberal/Democrat/progressive SMUCK.


55 posted on 02/25/2010 10:28:56 PM PST by ToTheMax
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I've heard a pacifist say it, actually. She didn't believe in any kind of violence and she counted self defense a violence.

It may have been satire but it's not far from the truth.

56 posted on 02/25/2010 10:30:31 PM PST by TNdandelion (While Obama plays with his balls, Afghanistan falls.)
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To: Neil E. Wright
I wonder if he would use it to save his own life?

This reminds me of one of the most chilling things about the Hitler Gang. They poisoned children, because they just couldn't bear to think about letting their children live in a country without national socialism.

57 posted on 02/25/2010 10:41:53 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

He can lay down his own life and that of his child, BUT DON’T TELL ME THAT I MUST DO IT TOO.


58 posted on 02/25/2010 10:44:50 PM PST by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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To: Neil E. Wright

I wonder how Doug’s kids feel knowing that Doug would let them die over a scumbag criminal.


59 posted on 02/25/2010 10:50:12 PM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Neil E. Wright
"But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."
In other words, I am such a sick whining miserable piece of liberal garbage, I would rather have my only child killed to justify my own personal cowardice...this piece of garbage is not only a danger to his own children, but God help us if he can vote or support with government policy such a perverted view of life..
60 posted on 02/25/2010 10:52:04 PM PST by Stayfree (Patriotic Americans United.com also operates The Obama Disaster.com!!)
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