Posted on 02/02/2005 10:45:23 AM PST by freepatriot32
And I thought more smart people went to my school...ugh. Should I track him down and confront him?
This nut is so wrong, I agree that not enough time to explain what the Constitution says. Home grown terrorist called gangs will grow to the extent that we all will be in danger. What we need is a well informed and armed peoples to protect what the police cannot do. Police generally respond to a crime, we need a threat before the crime is committed. We live in a dangerous world, don't leave us at the mercy of the insane. You will never take my ability to protect myself and no gun control prohibit the insane from getting weapons. Knives, ball bats, chain saws, etc. Looking down the barrel on my 9MM, 38, 22, and that wonderful 357 has a way of controlling things.
What you need to do i s go ot post 37 and click on the link then print it out and hand it to the guy and demand a retraction to this fish wrap that he wrote yesterday.
But original - I like it. Welcome to FR.
Big deal. Some snot-nosed college kid writes a leftie editorial he knows will please his leftie journalism teacher.
The Supreme Court has also ruled that owning slaves is fine & dandy.
Glasgow - 127 murders, population 577869 - total gun ban
Washington DC - 248 murders, 563,384 (Total gun ban)
Tuscon AZ - 47 murders, 514,618 people
Denver CO - 63 murders, 565,909 people
Jacksonville FL - 92 murders, 776,417 people
Indianapolis - 107 murders, 800167 people
Baltimore MD - 270 murders, 644544 people
Charlotte NC - 66 murders, 668003 people
Columbus OH - 109 murders, 726151 people
Oklahoma City - 49 murders, 521,681 people
Portland OR - 27 murders, 545271 people
Memphis TN - 126 murders, 653,858 people
Nashville TN - 74 murders, 554,888 people
Austin TX - 27 murders, 682,319 people
El Paso TX - 21 murders, 586,392 people
Fort Worth TX - 57 murders, 576339 people
San Antonio TX - 85 murders, 1,212,789
Seattle WA - 34 murders, 576,296
Milwaukee WI - 109 murders, 594,269>
...because odds are you are armed. In Britain this is not a problem - there have been a rash of "hot" robberies, where the perps attack while you are at home, knowing they have nothing to fear, and aware that, as an added bonus, there may be a few fems they can "play" with.
Thank you for the Welcome.
No response is necessary. Just send this jackass a copy of John Lott's book More Guns, Less Crime...
Wow! I guess he set me straight - finally. I thought that I had an intrinsic, constitutional right to own firearms; as many as I want (I have only seven), of any type that I want (I own no so-called "assault weapons", but I carried them for most of my adult life.
"Incontrovertibly insane" - no ego problem here: I said it, it's true. In fact, it's "incontrovertible", ergo, it's so self evident that it's beyond controversy. That being the case, why write the article?
"criminals...unlikely to invade your home while you're there" - that couldn't be because choosing a home without a gun is like rolling three sevens in a row, could it? Nah, it's incontrovertible.
Statistics from 1993 and 1994? If they're even accurate, it smacks of cherry-picking stats that support your argument - even if they're anomalous.
Oh, what the hell, I'm obviously incontrovertibly insane.
I am a multiple weapon owner and a former Public Safety Commissioner here in Florida. I have a question for everyone. Does anyone have a problem with registering their firearms and if so, why?
I'm asking because one of the problems in police work is that when a firearm that has been used in a crime is recovered, the ownership trail is often non-existant. Yes, criminals buy stolen guns, but if a crime is committed in Florida with a firearm that was owned by a person in Vermont, knowing that connection will at least provide investigators another avenue of inquiry -even if the firearm was legally purchased and stolen from the customer.
This guy jammed all the liberal fallicies into one article.
We don't an excuse-we have the second Amendment.
Yeah me too!
Heh, and you did 74 months in prison for some ridiculous amount of pot too? You're pretty crazy, you know that?
I'm not. What this lefty refuses to admit is that in L.A. the majority of murders are one thug killing another.
Ditto on that. Starting out by insulting people is not the way to write persuasively.
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