Double Action: Two NY Times Columnists Embarrass Themselves on Guns in Sunday Review

Newsbusters.org ^ | 4-8-2013 | Clay Waters

[piytar]

Map of verified defensive gun uses: http://www.cato.org/guns-and-self-defense

[miss marmelstein]

Frank Bruni’s a homosexual.

[Jordo]

Maybe the balaclava is there for the same reason as the gloves and heavy coat... cold weather?

[RAY]

Thanks again for your efforts!! In the case of a loss of civility, I want all the firepower possible — my greater fear for the nation is a tyrannical government!!

[Gaffer]

They don’t help much when they cover up your eyes. The man is a fracking idiot pig. Look at his weapon. More crap on it than in a Christmas Turkey.

[KrisKrinkle]

“The time has come, I think, to stop trying to reason with these people. It is a pointless exercise to a question that really isn’t the real motive here.”

The benefit of reasoning with “these people” is presenting our side of the argument to the observers of the argument, those who are neither one of “these people” nor one of us. To do otherwise unnecessarily concedes the field to “these people”.

[Gaffer]

There aren’t any ‘observers’ left. Fundamentally, you know on which side you fall.

Fully, 100+ million of ‘us’ are hooked on entitlements. The others that vote with their side are so hopelessly tied up in dogma and illogic favoring abortion, perverted behavior, illegal invasion, etc., that on the one hand they try to tell you banning guns saves the children while they other hand aborts over 50 million unborn souls. You simply cannot reason with this, and there is no other ‘undecided’ you can convince with the righteousness of your argument.

For what? All so Obama can party like Idi Amin or JayZ and Beyonce’ in Havana in the White House, his family can take lavish vacations at real producers’ expense and dictate to us which laws he deigns to follow and which he will subvert through the power of his office. If you don’t believe this man has an agenda that includes the complete devolution of this country into a third world sh!thole so he can remake it into an Islamic/Socialist Paradise, I don’t know what to tell you.

It is utter foolishness to continue down a path that is based on having a civilized argument with civilized people; they are not. They should be dealt with as such.

[nothingnew]

"I could forget, when not aiming at a bird, to keep the gun pointed toward the sky or the ground. Or my pivot as I followed a bird’s flight could bring one of my companions, so perilously near me, into my sights. I was haunted by this and by the fact that although I was a first-timer, I needed no background check, no training, no proof of any dexterity to hold this shotgun and squeeze its trigger blah blah blah...

When I applied for my first hunting license in Connecticut more than 40 years ago, I had to take a 16 hour class and handle ACTUAL guns before I could get the license.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Lx]

These guys (I use the term very loosely) need a man to activate their y chromosome. What is Sarah Palin doing these days? Maybe she can smack some sense into these nancy-boys.

These guys should see how it feels on the other end and be allowed to wander around a Cheetah preserve in Africa.

[Lazamataz]

The first photomeme is one of your very best. Simple, and establishes, PLAINLY, the Standard Capacity Magazine meme.

[servo1969]

Let’s change things up a little -

“I could forget, when not aiming at a [tree], to keep the [chainsaw] pointed [away from other people]. Or my pivot as I [cut off tree limbs] could bring one of my companions, so perilously near me, into [the teeth]. I was haunted by this and by the fact that although I was a first-timer, I needed no background check, no training, no proof of any dexterity to hold this [chainsaw] and squeeze its trigger, not on the kind of regulated [logging] grounds (called a preserve) that we went to. This country of ours makes it astonishingly easy for people to [buy a chainsaw] and [crank it up]. Is it any wonder that we have an exceptional harvest of [chainsaw]-related injuries and deaths, many accidental?”

Makes the wussy-ness a little clearer, I think.

[NappyOne]

Let me get this straight. In Joe Nocera’s world, it would be just fine if a person with permission to carry concealed and had a firearm with them in the Aurora theater to withdraw from the scene if they were not threatened and allow the shooting to continue? Really? Which is crazier? Thinking you can save others in such a situation or letting other be slaughtered as long as you are safe?

Joe, you are a heartless bastage.

The NappyOne