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Rooks: Guns do not equal freedom (delusional barf alert)
Seacoast Online ^ | May 26, 2023 | Douglas Rooks

Posted on 05/27/2023 7:37:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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The logic of this campaign is that guns=freedom, that the Second Amendment is on a par with the First Amendment, rather than being, as it is, a historical curiosity from when brand-new Americans wondered whether government could be trusted with their rights, privileges and immunities.


1 posted on 05/27/2023 7:37:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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Americans wondered whether government could be trusted with their rights, privileges and immunities.

And now we know, it can’t be.


2 posted on 05/27/2023 7:40:01 AM PDT by cableguymn
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Guns guarantee my freedom from assholes like Douglas Rooks.


3 posted on 05/27/2023 7:40:26 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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Being armed helps keep the Government from killing everyone in an American mass genocide.


4 posted on 05/27/2023 7:41:33 AM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of mass murder)
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after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act which banned mail-order rifle sales such as the one Lee Harvey Oswald obtained to murder President John F. Kennedy.

Ah yes. The old tyranny by non-sequitur trick.

5 posted on 05/27/2023 7:42:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Buy a history book scumbag. Dumb bass turd.


6 posted on 05/27/2023 7:42:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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Back then, it was unthinkable elementary school kids could be gunned down in a classroom, Bible classes and synagogues profaned, or that shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants and music festivals would see mass killing after mass killing.

"Back then" we still had values in this country.

I recall reading the Bible daily in class in the 4th grade.

Life was respected...that changed in January 1973.

Homosexuality was, and still is, abnormal behavior.

The police were still respected as was the rule of law.

Children were disciplined in schools.

*****

Now, what has changed since "back then"?

All of the above have been reversed.

It's a pretty simple answer.

7 posted on 05/27/2023 7:42:52 AM PDT by ealgeone
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brand-new Americans wondered whether government could be trusted with their rights, privileges and immunities.

Clearly, this question has been answered, and modern-day Americans wonder no more. That's why we need guns.

8 posted on 05/27/2023 7:44:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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The one thing I’d love to get an explanation on is how exactly restricting the gun rights of law-abiding citizens will have an impact on gun crime? Criminals are called criminal for a reason - they do not abide by the laws of the land. Consequently, banning guns simply implies restricting the rights of often responsible, law-abiding, citizens.

Additionally, the main focus by the Left is on, so called, ‘assault’ weapons. We all know this is simply because that’s what they think they can get away with, and that if they have their way they will eventually push for the restriction of all firearms. For example, handguns are used to commit most gun crime (including so called ‘mass shootings’, which nowadays can mean anything). Thus, should they successfully ban ‘assault’ rifles, their next target is handguns.

Guaranteed! Just look at what the Canadians are doing.

This is why there should be absolutely no ground given to the Left. Not even one single inch! Reason being that their so called ‘reasonable restrictions’ are not reasonable. The only thing that will satisfy the Left is pure abolishment of gun rights, and this is why everyone has to fight for their rights and not even give them ONE concession.

They are not ‘negotiating’ in good faith, and so they can pound sand.


9 posted on 05/27/2023 7:44:43 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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More preaching from kooks .... I mean Rooks ... who sounds like a kook. Folks like this must live in an environment that is so safe they never worry about personal safety.


10 posted on 05/27/2023 7:44:54 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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"Back then, it was unthinkable elementary school kids could be gunned
down in a classroom.."

Currently, guns have evolved into independent entities, able to function and move
about freely on their own.
Leaving death and destruction in their wake, uncaring at the mayhem left behind.
Clearly, gun autonomy should be heavily restricted.

11 posted on 05/27/2023 7:48:57 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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Yah, DR seems to be a total idiot.

Hey, idiot, why did the law on AR’s end? Uhh, because it was proven to have no beneficial effect. Tried it for ten years and let it die.

The real answer? No more gun-free-zone idiocy and fire cowardly coppers like those in Uvalde.


12 posted on 05/27/2023 7:51:17 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

13 posted on 05/27/2023 7:54:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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He welcomes comment at drooks@tds.net

TDS.net?

14 posted on 05/27/2023 8:00:17 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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The author needs to take his head out of the sand, look around and see the problem: our culture is more debased than ever, and life has never been less valued in this country’s history. The real issue is the across-the-board dissolution of the traditional nuclear family.


15 posted on 05/27/2023 8:02:38 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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Hey Rooks, get a time machine and ask the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto about that. Or maybe read a real (aka not WOKE) history book, you ignorant POS.


16 posted on 05/27/2023 8:02:42 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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“which banned mail-order rifle sales such as the one Lee Harvey Oswald obtained to murder President John F. Kennedy

Yeah, that’s what happened. Go back to sleep.


17 posted on 05/27/2023 8:22:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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At the hearing, hundreds of aroused hunters shouted down the bill

I'm aroused myself.

18 posted on 05/27/2023 8:48:41 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Guns don't kill people, Democrats do. )
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The astounding thing is that this Doug Rooks idiot so completely believes that government CAN be trusted, despite massive evidence to the contrary, that he takes it for granted that everyone agrees with him.

I’ll agree that guns do not equal freedom, which is a simplistic formulation. Freedom requires the desire to be free (Rooks wouldn’t understand that), the will, and the ability to maintain it. Firearms are one tool in the box.


19 posted on 05/27/2023 8:53:02 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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And gee, think of the many thousands, if not millions, of mail order rifles that were not involved in criminal or tragic (accidents or suicides) tragic misuse, let alone what happened to JFK.


20 posted on 05/27/2023 8:53:32 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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