GUN CULTURE THREATENS DEMOCRACY : Gun lobby threatens our very way of life

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ^ | May 13 | Josh Horowitz

[Dan from Michigan]

I don't think I needed to put a puke alert since it's obvious being a gun grabbing editorial by Josh Horror, I mean Horowitz of CSGV. He even sites his buddy Josh Suckermann, I mean Sugarmann of VPC in this one.

[Redcloak]

The libertarian in me thinks that Josh should be allowed to sniff as much glue as he pleases. After all, it's his money and his life. However, I still have hope that his loved ones will intervene.

[Tax Government]

Every last person reading FR should join NRA. Even if you don't own a gun.

[Stonedog]

I don't think I needed to put a puke alert since it's obvious being a gun grabbing editorial

I think you missed the boat on this one. The only thing that decreases the puke alert level is the fact that is was posted by someone above reproach. I certainly haven't been here long enough to get away with it.

[Mark]

Just the talk of GUNS gives me the heeby-jeebies. I'm so frightened.( /Lib weenie squeal)

[BipolarBob]

"If they believe in the right to take up arms to resist government policies they consider oppressive, even when these policies have been adopted by elected officials and subjected to review by an independent judiciary, then they are opposed to constitutional democracy.

Noone is opposed to CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY,they're opposed to the unconstitutional direction certain groups (money hungry politicians and power mad judges) wish to take us. And freedom is worth fighting and dying for.

[goldstategop]

Liberals think we can walk away from violent criminals without confrontation, huh? If someone wants to kill you, all the kumbaya thinking in the world ain't gonna stop it from coming true. Here's where I differ with liberals: I believe a trusty gun will stop a criminal dead cold. That's common sense with a bullet. And its just one example of how America's gun culture protects the one right on which all the others are dependent: the right to life. Josh Horowitz doesn't get it!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Billthedrill]

One wonders what "way of life" they're talking about here. And it is interesting to hear them assert that Randy Weaver had "no right" to resist law enforcement with a "private arsenal" when his case was that of an innocent civilian entrapped by the deliberate abuse of a gun control law, a gun controller's wet dream if ever there was. Weaver's wife was murdered as a result. If this is the "way of life" that's being threatened then I'm all for that.

[goldstategop]

The two "G" words that make liberals scream running for the hills: God and Guns!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[jneesy]

just when you think you've beat them into submission you trip over a slimey rock and out they come again

[garandgal]

In the urban industrial society of today a general right to bear arms so as to be able to resist oppression by the Government would mean that gangs could defeat the whole Bill of Rights."

Well, well, well...this would certainly explain the sudden inexplicable fascination with "gangs" by the MSM and some segments of our government lately.

A brand new "reason" to have gun control; since the others weren't working.

[TheWriterTX]

Hey Josh:

Let me make this reeeeealllly simple for you so you can understand it.

The Constitution does not grant me rights; it merely enumerates the inalienable ones I possess by virtue of my humanity. My rights are in instrinsic part of what defines me as a HUMAN BEING. One of those Rights is the ability to keep arms to protect my life, the lives of those I love, my property, and my country, if necessary.

Our government was established for the SOLE PURPOSE of PROTECTING my ability to exercise those rights.

Everytime you gun grabbers pass another law restricting my ability to exercise my rights, you are imposing an unjust sentence on me. You are punishing ME by limiting MY freedoms because OTHERS have committed a crime (and, as a result, violating other inalienable RIGHTS).

If depriving people of their inalienable RIGHTS is your idea of "democracy" and a "way of life," then you are seriously confused. TOTALITARIANISM denies people their rights and your "way of life" SHOULD BE protecting my ability to freely exercise my rights.

As I said in my article, "So, You Want To See Me Naked?" many years ago, I will NOT play the victim for you. I will not leave myself exposed so you can feel as though you have done something. My days of being a helpless female are over, and you will take my gun from my cold, dead hands.

[goldstategop]

Unlike Horwitz, I absolutely believe we have a right not just to bear arms for self-defense but to employ them in order to effectively resist a tyrannical and oppressive form of government. Its a very American thing to do.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[mc6809e]

He should be clear:

Thug gun culture is a threat.

Responsible adult gun culture is the answer to that threat.

[goldstategop]

LOL! Liberals can't even disarm gangs in this country; it beggars the imagination to conceive how they will disarm every law-abiding citizen. They have a national gun registry in Canada but the compliance rate is abysmal. One can be imposed here only over the dead bodies of the American people.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Stonedog]

By framing the gun debate as a choice between protecting liberty and the illusion of safety

What illusion? You'd think evidence from DC would let the gun control idiots know that their plans are not working. Violent crime rates in concealed carry states are much better than in strict control states.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Huh. Any man who doesn't WANT nor support the right to own a gun....is a wuss.

How's THAT?

[the anti-liberal]

[dread78645]

The standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco ... Our system includes democratic safeguards, such as juries, ...

Do you suppose this ding-wah ever heard of Lon Horiuchi?

[goldstategop]

To liberals we're well-armed thugs. Thugs that stand in the way of their plans to remake our country in their socialist image. Good. There are some things that need to be said "NO" to if we're to remain free.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)