Posted on 05/09/2006 9:29:18 AM PDT by neverdem
If you see a politician spouting this Democrat brand of gun control you know it is an election season and you know who to vote against. This is not to do with guns at all...but because you know the politician has no plan to keep the crime rates low.
Hmmm.... a proposal to restrict private ownership of firearms comes from someone whose name almost begins with the word "fascist".
There is one upside to this. At this point the midterm elections are looking to be a massacre for us, but this is the losingest issue the 'rats have ever had. If they decide to push this one we might just be able to avoid disaster.
It is not now nor has it ever been truly about gun control. It is about people control. I have tried, mostly in vain to get the few moron mommies of my acquaintence ( I try to avoid that type) to understand that today its something you agree with banning. Tomorrow it will be something that matters to you.
They came for the gunowners but I wasnt a gunowner so I didnt speak up
They came for the smokers but I wasnt a smoker so I didnt speak up........
Shameless paraphrase :)
It'll be the same thing tomorrow.
Anyone saying otherwise deserves a slander/libel lawsuit.
PING and
BANG!
I'm seeing a lot of pro-gun stuff from the SP-I. We have friends in Seattle?
No politician ever benefited from a problem solved.
I blame television...and call for mandatory waiting periods to purchase one of the infernal devices.
Exactly, the gun grabbers have to push it. It's not that the GOP can be held up as a shining examplar of the RKBA after El Presidente said he would have renewed the assault weapons ban if Congress would have passed it.
The sad part is that in the upcoming election, where the dems have a competitve chance of beating the pubbies, the dems won't say anything about the issue if they are smart.
Surprisingly: "Of the 25 biggest papers in the country, 20 reported drops in circulation. Of the five that did not drop, the gains were all less than 1 percent. Those were USA Today (2,272,815), The New York Times (1,142,464), the Chicago Tribune (579,079), The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., (398,329) and the Detroit Free Press (345,861)."
Sadly they'll try to pass anti-gun legislation packaged with other public policy legislation. We MUST rely on the NRA and other pro-gun associations to shed light on these grievious perversions of justice.
I'm of the opinion that another 9/11 or random terrorist attacks on soft-targets are the only things that will bring the rest of America to see the light of the 2nd Amendment. Am I faulty in that thinking?
I just noticed that the column says "GUEST COLUMNIST" at the top. Guess they're not our friends after all.
Have you taken them shooting? It's never failed for me. I've had several friends with little exposure to guns, who understandibly were fearful from lack of experience with them. A perspective of never having had a gun leads one to think no one really needs them. They key to talking to them is to understand and be sympathetic to that. It's foreign to them.
But I've had great success talking to them by taking them to a nice, clean, safe place to shoot, showing them my well cared for guns and impeccable range safety habits: I have shown them what the bullets look like and how to load and unload the gun, talked about the different types, and then have let them HIT TARGETS WITH them. They ALL grin after hitting a target with a big handgun. You can show them that it can be very safe to own guns and shoot them, and it's not just something scary people do, it's something normal people do. I'm a somewhat pudgy woman in her upper 30s, not a threat. By the end of the day I've never had anyone tell me they'd still vote for a law that would take my guns away. Not once.
Sometimes, but not always, it leads to discussion about self defense, and with the experience of shooting fresh in their mind, they feel more able to imagine what an empowering feeling it is to know there is a way for any person, large or small, strong or weak, to defend themselves when no one else can.
Some have become gun owners.
...hmm...must be part of the guest worker program...interesting.
"I just noticed that the column says "GUEST COLUMNIST" at the top."
The PI and the Everett Herald have been doing the "Guest Columnist" thing a lot. Must be a form of self-torture as they make their own editoralists look really bad quite often.
IMHO, yes because many of the gun grabbers and the hard left can't be reasoned with. Just look at their response to Iraq and the war on terror when Saddam had all sorts of connections with various terrorist organizations.
Unless you want to take someone to a range for the first time, I would save my words for mushy moderates and independent voters. United 93, the movie just came out, and the memory of how the New Orleans Police Department performed during Katrina is still pretty fresh in everyone's mind.
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