Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

A Provocative Thought Experiment on Guns [letter to editor of Philadelphia Daily News]
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 5/6/2008 | J.F. Wolfington [letter writer]

Posted on 05/08/2008 7:19:21 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-34 last
To: theBuckwheat

I understand all that, I was just responding to paragraph 4.


21 posted on 05/08/2008 8:23:23 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: NewJerseyJoe

Bump.


22 posted on 05/08/2008 8:24:00 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NewJerseyJoe; Tribune7

Are pigs starting to fly? Philly Daily News prints a honest summation of the Nutteryness of the Mayor’s Office? And troglodyte DA Abrahms balked in using their illegal laws? Maybe. ... ... Maybe.


23 posted on 05/08/2008 8:31:41 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stuartcr

Actually, bud, I CHOOSE to defend my family, my life, and my way of life with the most expedient object ever invented. The firearm is a TOOL, nothing more. It is neither good nor evil; the person behind it has the CHOICE to act in a good or evil capacity.

Mayor Thugnutter and his fascist flunkie Police Chief Thugramsey and the other rejects on City Council saw fit to try to pass 5 gun laws (one of which is a LAUNDRY LIST of so-called “assault rifles” which suspiciously resembles the list currently in force in New Jersey) win direct defiance to the law of the State, as well as in defiance of the US Constitution.

Why are they not being frog-marched off to jail by PA State Police and US Marshalls for blatantly defying the law, as You or I would be if WE defied the “law” so publicly and openly?

This is what happens when DemComs get control of authority.

Black citizens have the right to defend themselves too; what they need to do is self-police the trash elements in their community an stop electing Thugs to office. When you see young thugs walking around with “Stop Snitching” T-shirts on, there is a REAL problem.

NO ONE is taking away MY ability to defend my family, my neighborhood, my LIFE, from these predatory thugs. Be they governmental predatory thugs or ghetto gangbangers.

People DIED for this right.


24 posted on 05/08/2008 8:52:51 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: wizr
Drug lords and transporters should not go to jail, they should die. Drug users should he held until clean, only, and then be put under the direction of a drug enforcement unit to correct their lives.

Do a Google search for "Commissioner Lin" and "Opium War". His tactics were just like what you suggest, and he would have succeeded, too, had not the British decided to go to war to protect the free flow of opium.
25 posted on 05/08/2008 8:56:16 AM PDT by Antoninus (Siblings are the greatest gift parents give their children.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: stuartcr
The “groups” color or ethnicity, is not the problem, it's the culture that surrounds gun violence. When lawmakers finally get serious about arresting and stopping criminal behavior, then and only then it will stop. To go after all citizens and take the rights away from everyone because of the illegal behavior of one culture, is asinine! And will do no good at all, it never has. Those getting guns illegally and using them to kill, don't obey laws, obviously, and they will not obey any new laws.
26 posted on 05/08/2008 8:56:24 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

Did I even mention anything about what you are talking about?


27 posted on 05/08/2008 9:00:02 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: gidget7

Did you even read #s 4, 7 & 21?


28 posted on 05/08/2008 9:01:37 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: stuartcr

Yes...when you said “people choose to be gun owners..”


29 posted on 05/08/2008 9:14:54 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: NewJerseyJoe

Quite frankly, with the Philadelphia Daily News being the toilet-paper DemCom propaganda rag that it is, I was surprised as hell that they printed ANYTHING remotely pro-gun. Especially after turning to their full-page spread in the same issue showing the “deadly, semi-automatic SKS assault rifle” that the dirtbag thugs used to kill the cop.

Mayor Thugnutter has his bloody shirt to wave now. Convenient timing for him and his ilk.

Would it have made a difference if they used a Winchester .30-30 or a shotgun? Same result - dead cop.


30 posted on 05/08/2008 9:20:23 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

A Remington rifle in the 740 or 760 family would have been more deadly than this SKS scout rifle (This was NOT an assault rifle). And the 740s/760s have a long tradition as a hunting arm.


31 posted on 05/08/2008 9:32:19 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

Did you read my entire statement? Taking things out of context in order to rant at someone, is disingenuous at the least.


32 posted on 05/08/2008 9:37:16 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

They got the type of firearm right this time?


33 posted on 05/08/2008 8:18:38 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Ghengis

Not the point - the SKS is “evil”, it’s “deadly”, it “can cut a cow in half”, it’s “not useful for hunting”, and “why should anyone want to own one of these weapons of destruction”...

Blah blah blah. ANY gunnie knows what the SKS is and isn’t. Ted Nugent was on the radio in Philly a few mornings back, and even said that the .30-30 was far deadlier than the SKS.

Doesn’t matter. The Philly Daily Toilet News rag showed a folding stock, banana-mag equipped SKS rifle that faintly resembles the ULTIMATE evil rifle, the AK47, and THAT’s what the agenda-driven will focus on to terrify the ignorant.

WE all know better out here; its the uninformed that we have to convince, and the lefties OWN the media.

Once again - this all goes back to the Mayors Against Guns meeting some time back. The have their bloody shirt now.


34 posted on 05/12/2008 9:36:06 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-34 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson