Posted on 06/03/2013 4:02:48 AM PDT by kimtom
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.
I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream.
But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.
And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker's podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers.
And how does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of "Northern Aggression" as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness? History lesson: It was an awful Civil War won decisively some 150 years ago. Over slavery. The Confederacy wanted to keep African-Americans in chains and President Lincoln didn't.
Sure, there were states' rights issues, but nullification, secession, and treason were settled at Appomattox Courthouse. Sure, Reconstruction left a bad taste. But, resurrecting these same things, the way South Carolina is as we speak, is to invite a return to the whole concept of a Union.
Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.
We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president's agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, "We'll put a boot in your ---, it's the American way."
Except it won't be a boot. It'll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won't do them any good.
So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks. And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along, we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.
Swindell is a professor of journalism.
You’d be surprised what happens if you write president@marshall.edu.
Anyone who cannot see that we are facing gun confiscation in increments is blind.
It’s like Johnny Cash’s Cadillac, He got it one piece at a time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM
For someone who had to spend more than just a few years studying, writing theses, etc., Swindell is a remarkably naive little boy. Liberal bravado re: what they can do using the very tools they've continually demostrated against and the men and women whom they hold in the lowest regard for their selfless service.
Flawed Argument? More like black lies. His “history” is wrong, and his straw-men are obvious.
Form letter comes back? Does Chrissy Swindell work at that college? Do we get a visit from the SS or IRS?
Swindell is a professor of journalism.
Swindell is also incapable of forming a coherent logical, reasoned argument and resorts to name calling and character assassination to cover for his lack of critical thinking ability
Seriously, "Professor of Journalism"?
WV and wherever he teaches should be ashamed.
I’d be surprised by any response from MU since they employ a journalism professor that doesn’t know the difference between Cretan (a native of the Greek isle of Crete) and cretin (one who suffers from cretinism, a form of mental retardation or, alternatively, a stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person.)
Cretan - people from island of Greece.
Cretin - brainless, stupid, child-like.
read some of the comments.
yesterday was over 1500 and the only one coming to Swindells defense was Swindell whining that he was being threatened by the other posters.
This guy is a seriously deranged @sshole who should never be allowed around impressionable minds
Cross-link to earlier threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3026061/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026451/posts
Yep, many good comments. I found in one of them a reference to this article, which was also pretty good:
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_1c144792-b36d-11e2-8ac6-001a4bcf887a.html
BTW, it has a treasure trove of links that any pro-gun debatist might find handy in the trenches.
Traitors named Washington, Jefferson, Madison etc would disagree.
What is this fool teaching?
The #1 reason for owning a firearm is to keep people like this Christopher Swindell from totally controlling our lives.
Terrorists have already used semi-auto weapons to attack. They were generally less successful than the Boston Bombers who used pressure cookers and considerablly less successful than the 911 attackers and Oklahoma City bombing.
I would far prefer the Muzzies present themselves to fight than blow up our children at a distance.
This Swindell is another petty tyrant that dismisses the intent of the 2A and boasts about “common sense” restrictions on basic individual freedoms.
“... dismisses the intent of the 2A and boasts about “common sense” restrictions on basic individual freedoms...”
Right, and that is the point!!!
Thanks!
the education system is now a joke (historical, political).
and note: these type of classes are required for many degrees....got to get (reinforce) that liberal propaganda...(sarc)
Thanks, I apologize for duplicity...I guess it was too important for me, I had to get the word out..
Humbled......
the education system's is now BEEN a joke since the 70s (historical, political).
Fixed it.
Whenever someone immediately claims to not be a liberal and then immediately launches into a foaming-at-the-mouth tirade against everything conservative, you know they are a liar.
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