Have Glock, Will Travel (New York Times Columnist Up in Arms)

New York Times ^ | 10/24/2011 | Frank Bruni

[goldstategop]

New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and several other states don’t have reciprocity arrangements that allow someone like Todd to pay an armed courtesy call. That’s because New York officials can deny concealed-carry permits on a case-by-case basis, whereas many other states — South Dakota, for example — don’t put much stock in such scrutiny.

H.R. 822, now in the House Judiciary Committee, makes a mockery of our diverse values and strategies for public safety. If it were enacted, off to New York the South Dakotan tourist could go, 9-millimeter Glock in tow.

That’s not liberty. More like lunacy.

[umgud]

In one state, you’re a law abiding citizen, but cross the wrong state line and you become an automatic criminal.

[Sudetenland]

I bet he's more like many of the other, most vocal, opponents of gun rights and has a Glock of his own in his home. Like most liberals, I suspect he is one of those lefty elites who thinks it's okay for HIM, but all of us low-lifes shouldn't have the same rights.

Remember William Raspberry? He was one of the most vocal opponents of 2nd Amendment protections right up until he shot some burglar on his property. How about North Carolina State Senator R.C. Soles who fought against gun rights his entire life then shot an intruder back in February of this year?

[donmeaker]

I suppose they got over it while NY was our nation’s capital.

[ncpatriot]

what do you think of a 38?

[Pontiac]

If it were enacted, off to New York the South Dakotan tourist could go, 9-millimeter Glock in tow.

Given the necessity to go about unarmed, I would rather be unarmed in North Dakota than New York.

[goldstategop]

Of course they do. The worst offenders are hypocrites and its OK for them to protect themselves and their families but they want to deny you doing it for you and yours.

[goldstategop]

I’ve never felt the need to carry a gun in my rural neck of the woods. That’s different in the urban jungle.

[Da Coyote]

Let’s just take some joy in the fact that a deceasing percentage of folks read the NYT, and even fewer actually take to heart what they read.

The MSM is losing, and they don’t like it.

And for me, I don’t give a smelly Obama what a journalist thinks about guns. As if this clown knew which end the bullet came out of.

[CPOSharky]

The lunacy is being required to surrender arms and render yourself defenseless when merely crossing into another state. Despite, being thoroughly vetted and authorized by duly constituted state and federal law enforcement entities to acquire, posses, and carry.

And liberty is not having obtain a permit to carry open or concealed, much less having to obtain a permit to own a gun. (Four states have it right, only 53 to go. ;-)

[CORedneck]

What a @$$clown !

Liberals favor uniform federal laws only if it restricts liberty. For example, speed limits (gone for now), seatbelt laws, helmet laws (gone for now), prohibition like more draconian DUI and drinking age laws. Anything that favors individual liberty is out !

[skinkinthegrass]

I’ve never felt the need to carry a gun in my rural
neck of the woods. That’s different in the urban jungle.

Yhea, They're animals up (I'm in KY:) there...
out here in "the sticks"; We just gotta worry 'bout bears, Varmints (rabid 'coons / 'possums) & the occasional HVAC copper wire thieves.
Ky Gun Control: proper stance / good eye / S&W Handgun
500 Cal Magnum / double tap. (short version :)

[hinckley buzzard]

I don't think that was Raspberry though. I think it was some black lefty Washington columnist whose name I am blocking on.

[blueunicorn6]

The three people who still read the new york times are really agitated.

[hoosierham]

Carl Rowan (used ILLEGAL handgun to shoot at “children”).

[BCR #226]

Which state, per capita, has a lower crime rate?

[GOPJ]

...and when Democrats controlled Congress for the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency, they made no major progress on gun control. Reluctant to cross the N.R.A., they let it slide.

Dems were NOT 'reluctant' to cross the NRA - that's a lie. A typical New York Times lie. The reason dems didn't take on gun control WAS BECAUSE THE ISSUE DOESN'T WORK FOR THEM. The polls changed some years back - - dems discovered they LOST voters over the issue - and dropped it like a hot potato...

[VeniVidiVici]

Amazing that Liberals are so up in arms over law-abiding citizens exercising their 2d Amendment rights.

[Sudetenland]

LOL! Raspberry was a “black lefty Washington columnist.” :^)

[Sudetenland]

Did some research and you’re right, it was Carl Rowan—another black lefty Washington columnist—not William Raspberry who had the unregistered gun.

[rstrahan]

The original reasoning behind gun control, both in England and America, was a fear of a Communist uprising. You disarm the populace and the government has less to fear, which was demonstrated when the people rose up and threw out the Czar...then were disarmed by the Communists who took control.

Governments fear an armed populace..as well they should!