Posted on 05/17/2007 9:41:46 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
HAVE WE LOST our humanity?
When a troubled young man goes on a shooting spree, and kills 32 people, what we hear even louder than the gunfire is the sound of some people pushing an agenda to increase the number of Americans carrying guns.
Are chunks of metal that fire other pieces of metal for the sole purpose of maiming and killing that important to us that we are willing to sacrifice lives?
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Is he talking about automobiles?
only 32... wonder how many unborn were aborted yesterday.... betcha more than 32...
Regardless of what anyone says, this nation was not forged by firearms and blood - it was formed on ideas. And ideas and ideals are what make great nations.
History's despots - from Caesar to Saddam - were not really defeated by weapons, they lost to ideas. You can always take a gun away from someone - Hitler, Stalin and a whole raft of tyrants happily pried guns from their opponents' cold, dead hands.
Hitler was defeated by IDEAS? No, he was defeated by millions of tons of weaponry. The Sovite Union was defeated by the US ARMS RACE.
What you can't take from someone is their mind. That's why ideas, not weapons, are what tyrants fear the most. When Cambodian dictator Pol Pot seized power in the mid-1970s, he killed everyone who wore glasses. To Pol Pot, people with glasses were readers and thus thinkers of ideas. His camps for re-educating the population were about teaching people not to think because to think would mean to formulate ideas that would undermine the dictatorship.
Tyrants seize private weapons. For this numbnuts to even raise Pol Pot as "proof" for his position is the height of absurdity. THAT'S WHAT our nation has always been about - and that's what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are all about - ideas.
After the first two sentences why would I want to? The author is clinically insane.
Oh, it’s worth reading the entire thing, just to witness a new low in gun-grabber logic twisting.
Hey crybaby, ask yourself that same question when there's an unknown number of intruders in your house and your phone is out of reach...
It’s so much easier to ban guns, than to find and treat these disaffected people before they go ballistic. Simple solutions for simple minds...
Just think if Caesar had banned all knifes, Brutus would have used a rope.
Liberals will never get that guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Or you’ve gotten the phone, called 911, and you’re waiting for a response while the barbarians are in your bedroom
Would Peter care to comment on serial rapists? We get a dose of these evil animals every few years. Would he care to comment about deaths involving ladders in residents across the country every year? How about vehicular deaths? Poisonings?
In his utopian world, there is a medal detector and armed police officer at every public and commercial building and scattered checkpoints around our cities. How else can you stop a nutcase intent on horrific crimes. Should training be required to purchase ant killer chemicals along with frequent surprise inspections in everyone’s homes to keep them safe.
Either you want to live in a free society that gives evil men the freedom to plot and scheme, or you want to be parented in a nanny fashion and have your behavior regulated for your own good.
I ask, how would he suggest we go about preventing someone from plotting and executing a killing spree unless you create a police state?
Liberal logic, I suppose.
(if nothing else insanity can be quite creative)
What a pile of ....
Own and carry****
*sign*
Chunks of metal that fire other pieces of metal for the purpose of maiming and killing are important to us so we can defend lives.
This country was founded by men bearing muskets who knew how to shoot.
I couldn’t get passed the FIRST sentence and then I posted.
Put up or shut up.
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