AROUND THE NATION, A RISING TIDE: COMMUNITIES CLAMOR FOR ACTION ON GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Brady Campaign ^ | 6-15-05

[elbucko]

Look Bucko, you made a small error and got nailed.

Yes, it was small error and a bigger man would have left it alone. But not you. May I remind you that it was you who made the error an issue, not me. Perhaps some maturity would improve you as well.

[infidel29]

I get the "Federalist Patriot" newsletter in my e-mail, it was in there. That doesn't mean anything though they've had some incorrect quotes before, although they're right 90% of the time. I don't have the issue it came in sorry. I'll try to verify it.

[Travis McGee]

Besides being "new" to me, it just doesn't sound like the language of the era.

[infidel29]

I've most likely worded it wrong, but I'm so sure it's Franklin it's driving me nuts...

I found lots of good quotes from Teddy Roosevelt though...

[Bottom_Gun]

yea, I have to agree with you on the age of terrorism stuff. Post 9/11 and after her return from Afghanistan, one of the first things my wife did was get her CCW, even though I've had mine for years. her reasoning was " you're not going to be around all the time, so I figured I need to get mine also".

[RKV]

A bigger man than you would recognize that not everyone who corrects you when you make a mistake is your enemy. You might learn something if you can ever get past your overreaction.

[philman_36]

In Duluth, Minnesota this afternoon, the bells will be ringing. Duluth's citizens are not alone in demanding action.
I don't see the people of Duluth demanding action.
And in Duluth, Minnesota, community leaders will chime a bell this afternoon for the children lost at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, the four-year-old killed by a target shooter in a tragic accident, and a father of three who died in a bar at the hands of a bully with a concealed handgun permit.
I simply see them remembering and recognizing local deaths. What action are they demanding?
Talk about twisting the facts to gain a desired effect.
And the only "clamoring" I see is coming from the yaps of the Brady Campaign and the $MM.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

The ever pungent odor of gun grabbing moron BS.

So timely now also, just when the American people should insist on taking up their arms for the protection of home, hearth, kin, and kindred, from the monsters who walk among us.

Is there a school these leftist mo roons learn to be so anti-American?

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

What about this quote from Hitler:

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." -- Adolf Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938, H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944 (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, p. 425-426).

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

All these quotes below are true quotes. Correct me if any are wrong.

"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom." -- Thomas Paine

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." -- George Washington

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." -- Mohandas Gandhi

[mbynack]

I'm concerned about gun violence, too. I think that we need to look at the sources of the problem, like single-parent homes, declining family values, gangs teaching our children their values and not parents, a lack of firearms training in our schools, and the faulty logic of disarming victims and not criminals.

[PGalt]

Where's MADD? Drunk Drivers don't kill people, cars kill people.

[elbucko]

A bigger man than you would recognize that not everyone who corrects you when you make a mistake is your enemy.

True, but at the shooting range when someone in another position has shoot at your target, it is either an accident or on purpose. Both are breeches of decorum and obligate the miscreant to offer an apology rather than accuse the offended of having his target in the way of the mis-shooters bullet.

My reference to "infedel129" as the source of the Ben Franklin quote at post #12 was clear, accurate and it occurred 6 posts before mine. It would seem that you shot at the wrong target, cannot admit your mistake and that such an admission is more of an issue with you than it is with me.

I don't know if the Franklin quote is accurate or not, and for that matter, I don't care. The logic expressed by the erroneous (?) quote was valid, nonetheless. If I am guilty of anything it is hearsay, nothing more.

"Any problems with that? TOUGH."

[HolgerDansk]

Hey! Where's the "Projectile Barf Alert" warning?