The leftists have to blame guns because they can’t ever blame their fellow criminals. Lowlife thugs have to protect their own....
I didn’t realize the whole point of self defense was to be an “infantry soldier”?
That said, that former soldier would have his ass handed to him in a one-on-one situation with a well-trained gun owner. Infantry skills do not make one a super soldier or a pistoleer, and using this one guy as a real-life “straw man” is a specious argument.
This is one of the biggest pieces of horse manure I have read in a long time.
The NRA is for wimps. Statists water carriers. The John McCain of gun groups.
waddling around shopping malls carrying pistolsNow that's really a well-reasoned argument, isn't it?
The author can only call names. That's what this POS piece is all about. Smearing good people.
Facts that do not fit the liberal agenda are always ignored and this article does a good job of ignoring many, many facts.
They might be right, they might cost more lives than they save. However, my daughter is an individual,, I am an individual,, what is best for the individual is what matters here, not the collective.
I have to say I tend to agree with this statement if young college aged girls are included in this statement.
Many thugs would run away if they saw a young woman pull a gun out, but those that didn't would be the ones who would become incredibly violent in a fight/flight scenario and would kill you if you hesitated for a split second.
Either that or these lawsuit conscious kids just plain missed because they truly didn't believe it when they were told that hitting a moving human at 10 feet in the dark while scared to death is not at all a guaranteed kill like the paper targets at the range are.
Eugene Aloysius Lyons (AKA Gene Lyons)is a flame-thrower of the first magnitude. He knows not civility or subdued rhetoric or truth. I quick taking our local newspaper primarily due to the fact that it featured Alo-ishi-us in their OpEd page every Sunday.
I wrote rebuttals (which were always printed), and made phone calls to the editorial staff to replace him with ANYBODY else. But to no avail. So the subscription was cancelled.
Now I’ve got to stomach this flaming-a$$ on FR? Sheeeesh!
Not to worry. Gene Lyons is the chief Clinton apologist at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and a Molly Ivins wannabe.
As he is known here....Liein’ Gene Lyons.
This is correct. If you aren't prepared to shoot to kill, pulling a gun may be worse than not doing so. Guns aren't magic wands.
My dad taught me decades ago I should never point a gun at someone unless I intend to kill him. By extrapolation one should not pull a gun unless you intend to kill someone.
A major fallacy of this article is something else he told me, "You seldom need a gun, but when you need one, you really, really need one."
Hollywood is filled with gun grabbers. They don’t understand weapons and make movies featuring all sorts of absurd gunplay that would never work off camera. It’s always a little surreal to see other gun grabbers criticize the unreality of Hollywood’s portrayal.
A bumper stocker I saw couldn’t have said it any better:
“If guns kill people... do pencils misspell words?”
You don't have to turn everyone into a killing machine, you just need to keep the bad guys guessing which ones are.
When the bad guys know a 75 yo grandmother that normally would be safe to attack has the potential of being a trained killing machine, they call that deterrent.
Deterrent is a good thing.
“Even most armed assailants, he explained, arent hell-bent upon murder. They use weapons to control their victims. “
A couple of points:
- I seriously doubt any good firearms instructor, not to mention combat veteran, would have said any such thing.
- Relying on the beneficence of a predator with a weapon is the stupidest thing one could ever do.
- Once someone pulls out a weapon in the commission of a predatory act they have given up the right to complain about overly harsh treatment.
This is my local paper now.
Just about tore what’s left of my hair out reading that editorial this morning.
Arrrgh!