Posted on 01/10/2011 5:41:19 PM PST by Kaslin
I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The answer he wanted was the three ships with which eventually someone would have discovered the New World and without which everyone would have remained in Spain.
It is no different with the tragedy in Tucson. Hate speech and madness were part of the mix, but it was the gun and our insane gun laws that resulted in six deaths. Until we come to grips with that, as a nation, we remain armed and dangerous.
The American culture, the American gun culture, insists on a constitutional right to bear arms — even concealed weapons such as a Glock 19 semiautomatic handgun capable of doing immense damage. A 22-year-old man, already hallucinating on the Internet, making no sense in his classes and booted from school for his strange ways and probably unable to show up with a friend, can buy such a killing device almost on the spot. If he is crazy, then so are we.
No real questions are asked of him. Do you think the government controls grammar and grammar controls the universe? Have you been babbling in class and can you hold a job? Why do you want this gun? Do you, perhaps, want to kill someone? Do you want a Glock 19 because it was one of two handguns used in the Virginia Tech massacre (32 killed, one suicide), and would you please state the name of your intended victim on the form provided? Thanks. This will just take a moment to process.
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You forgot 2 more left wing lunatics. Dana Milbank and Ruth Marcus
If the gun is the problem, then punish the gun by destroying it and let the guy go.
If you don’t want to let the perpetrator go, then you admit that it wasn’t the gun that was the problem, it was the person.
Yup. A nut-job went on a rampage in San Francisco a couple years ago, running down people with his car in different neighborhoods. He killed and injured pedestrians right where me and my wife had been earlier. I didn't see any calls for outlawing ownership of cars after that incident.
Uh... ships are NOT a "who"... I've read enough.
That was my first thought.
The Left is going for that, too.
These guys have jumped the gun so badly that here is a WashPo columnist asking for a repeal of the 2nd Amendment just 48 hours after the tragedy!
Keep digging your own graves, idiots.
Ooops.
Correction: I must apologize for using a metaphor involving death, and hereby pledge that I in no way meant to imply that Cohen literally dig his own grave.
To join the choir... Dick Cohen is an idiot. Take away the guns, another weapon will be used.
Negligence killed. Loughner’s radioactive state of mind was ignored.
Your disclaimer is sad and funny.
I do not mean to control speech but SELF CONTROL... which is Consitutional... pipe dream because the media is on the pipe.
LLS
Or a car and a bottle of vodka...
When GUNS kill as many as CHOICE, then get back to me.
Yeah!
You summed it up GOOD!
Yup!
Them darned CHINESE did it!
True.
We have owned guns since 1962 and have NEVER shot another person, although if anyone breaks into my Texas home, I can shoot to kill, Texas Castle Doctrine. Don’t mess with Texans! I played with toy guns when I was growing up in Oklahoma and it didn’t turn me into a violent killer. I don’t even like to kill bugs or snakes. I am a peaceful non-violent old housewife. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. There was a locan man who was beaten to death by his daughter and son in law, they used a TENNIS RACKET. Anything can be a murder weapon.
GREAT COMMENT!
If the gun is the problem, then punish the gun by destroying it and let the guy go.
If you don’t want to let the perpetrator go, then you admit that it wasn’t the gun that was the problem, it was the person.
Ok, for future reference, Richard Cohen should not own a firearm, he is dangerously unbalanced!
A well regulated militia is necessary to exterminate the Richard Cohen’s of the world.
When he no longer walks among us his vitriolic free speech is revoked
There are millions of us. My parents gave me a .22 bolt action rifle at age 7. I have been hunting since then and have bagged a lot of good groceries from the woods. I do carry and have a Texas CHL. Difference is that we keep our emotions in check and don’t go postal. The cases like this are a very small minority of people with firearms, but the media goes wall to wall with their political agenda to disarm all of us to keep us all “safe”. They don’t explain criminals who will be armed no matter how many laws there are on the books. More restrictive gun laws only lead to more disarmed citizens.
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