Posted on 06/29/2008 5:09:10 PM PDT by Gritty
As far back as the 1700s, the famed explorer Daniel Boone said that "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Not my definition of happiness.
In modern day New York City, guns are a part of our life. People shoot and are shot almost every day, and a disproportionate number of those people are people of color. How do you deal with that?
I'm scared of guns, never played with guns, and jump whenever a firecracker pops. Gun violence is quick, devastating, and impersonal. Can't we human beings figure out another way of conflict resolution?
I played a cop in a movie once, and when I put on my costume and the big belt to hold my billy club and gun, something weird happened: I looked in the mirror - A black woman with a badge and a gun? Yeah, I was super-bad! I was "Christie Love," and Emma Peel on "The Avengers," and all three of "Charlie's Angels."
(I probably looked more like Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show").
I caught myself posing with the gun and was stunned. What was I doing? Guns aren't toys, they're not sexy, and they're not some accessory. They're for real. I put the gun back in my belt and never touched it again.
According to the NRA, there are an estimated 200 million privately-owned firearms in the United States, including almost 65 million handguns. Good grief! Who owns them? Private citizens, and members of groups as varied as Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty, 126 Women State Legislatures, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
I know they don't all think like Daniel Boone, and I wonder why some still hunt when you can get meat already wrapped at the supermarket. I'd like to understand them better.
The comedian Chris Rock had a brilliant idea that I think both gun owners and gun control advocates could agree with (or "agree to").
Instead of gun control, he says, "we need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost five thousand dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."
Sounds like a good start to me.
Monumental waste of bits and bytes.
Weenie.
The individual, gang, and institutional variety are still thriving all around us.
Although all of those are deadly, of those three, the institutional are the biggest threat and the real reason we have the 2nd amendment.
...and this guy, will move definitivewly to disarm as many more of us as he possibly can.
I stopped reading there.
Giles needs to remember that firearms brought about the end of the Holocaust.
Democrats are so stupid and naive that they are dangerous to the health of Americans everywhere.
I'm scared of guns, never played with guns, and jump whenever a firecracker pops.:rolleyes:
http://web.mac.com/nancygiles/nancygiles/Bio.html
Nitwits like this are why I cheerfully sold my CBS stock years ago.
Not my definition of happiness.
What's she got against horses?
The cities are far more likely to need a gun than a western frontier area of the 1830s! Liberals have yet to create a utopian society with their concrete cities.
You read further than I did....
Is it a requirement to be an IDIOT to work at CBS these days???
Totally and incomprehensibly unrelated to the 2nd amendment.
Surely this twit jests.
With an ever growing central government and the local governments taking the example, citizens are in danger.
Not only from their 'benevolent' government, but from the freaks that haunt our neighborhoods lusting after whatever is left in our wallets and after our vehicles filled with precious gasoline.
America, and it's citizens are in deep trouble.
The Greenwich village version is: "all you need for happiness is a government grant or a welfare check, public transportation and a good same sex partner."
Is this POS for real?
The frontier hasn’t been conquered. If the CBS News jamokes believe it has been, I suggest they walk Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester, Massachusetts starting at 2:00 a.m. and see how far they get before having their butts blown away by some street punks with firearms.
I’m speechless!
And it was the LACK of guns that started it in the first place.
I'm scared of 4 members of the USSC.
“Democrats are so stupid and naive that they are dangerous to the health of Americans everywhere.”
No kidding.
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