Posted on 06/20/2009 7:38:14 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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There is no Obama gun ban on the way. Gun control advocates are, frankly, disappointed [so far].
Whats important to grasp here is that this madness has nothing to do with hunting, which the politicians always claim to be defending, and everything to do with the use of firearms to resist policies and lawful government actions that some gun owners dont like.
In a speech in February to the Conservative Political Action Conference, the executive vice president of the N.R.A., Wayne LaPierre, said: Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.
A new book by Dennis Henigan, a vice president at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, goes into detail on this point. In Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy, Mr. Henigan refers to a Harvard Law Journal article written by an N.R.A. lawyer titled, The Second Amendment Aint About Hunting. In the article, the lawyer makes it clear that for the N.R.A., the right to bear arms is directed at maintaining an armed citizenry. ... to protect against the tyranny of our own government.
There was a wave of right-wing craziness along those lines during the Clinton administration. Four federal agents were killed and 16 others wounded in 1993 during an attempt to serve a search warrant at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., where a stockpile of illegal machine guns had been amassed. The subsequent siege ended disastrously with a raging fire in which scores of people were killed.
In the aftermath of Waco, the N.R.A. did its typically hysterical, fear-mongering thing. In a fund-raising letter in the spring of 1995, LaPierre wrote: Jack-booted government thugs [have] more power to take away our Constitutional rights, break in our doors, "
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Herbert explains well the importance of gun rights, although he opposes them.
Yeah that’s kind of what that little incident at Lexington and Concord a couple of centuries ago was about.
Guess what NYT when and/or if it does come, we will be ready and you will be the first thing to go.
And only a liberal can decry George W. Bush as a fascist while wearing a Che t-shirt.
Did anyone ever see one of those illegal machine guns from Waco?
This looks to be a pointless “undated” Herbert article, to run when Bob is on vacation.
I wouldn’t wipe my backside with that article.
Lets buy Bob Herbert a one way ticket to Iran or China . Send the Hildabest with him .
Choose sides, folks. The anti-gun, “government knows best”, “people are too stupid to take care of themselves” crowd like Herbert are coming for you. I know which side I have chosen. Do you?
JoMa
P.S Notice the author conveniently left out the Muslim who killed a US soldier in Arkansas back in June? This is a perfect example of biased writing.
Good. Let's make sure that no such ban ever comes our way, and that gun control advocates remain forever disappointed.
Every act of oppression and tyranny when imposed by government is “lawful”.
Another classic liberal self-inflicted wound on the subject of CCW. How many DC gun laws did von Brunn violate in taking his weapon to and into the Holocaust Museum? The DC laws did not stop the madman, nor do they stop an astronomically high murder rate in the nation's capital. Liberals are just unwilling to deal with the basic notion that criminals do not obey gun laws.
All it will take is another Katrina like incident or terrorist attack and the "national security state" will move against the 2A and gun owners.
I believe the reason no gun ban is on the way is that Congress is aware of actions being taken at the level of various state legislatures which are firmly opposed to it. They cannot afford to have an open and public breach with states at this point.
The author, after decrying the rise of hate-driven websites taking issue with Obama's race, ignores the reality that the average black person in this country is at vastly more danger from someone of his own race than from some deranged Stormfronter.
Always bringing up the murders at the Branch Davidian compound no one knows the truth there..If you ask me the Clinton's, Janet Reno was trying to show their power..They killed little kids and blamed it on the people living in the compound..I am not far from Elk Texas where this happened..If they had of wanted to serve a warrent on David Corresh they could have done that any time in Dallas where he humg out and they knew he went there often..All the had to do was walk in a store and handcuff him..
As for the people there, they worked out in town along other citizens of Waco and surrounding areas and were the nicest hard working people a person would want to meet..
So go to hell NYT I am waiting for the day that paper of yours is shut down..then we will get the last laugh..
That three sentence paragraph turns the Waco incident exactly around. How many alive now have never heard of Waco before, and get their first recounting here?
I guess that he’s never read Jeffersons comments on owning guns.
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