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Shooting up America: Guns are a national disgrace
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 2, 2015 | Mark Morford

Posted on 10/03/2015 6:18:58 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Guns are, in a word, perfect.

Guns are unparalleled, really; they are small masterpieces of precision engineering, one of humanity’s most deliberate, perfectly designed tools. There is simply no denying a gun’s intention, no possible misunderstanding of its reason for existing.

Unlike cars, knives, drugs, alcohol or any other freely available, potentially deadly items which can (and do) kill lots of people, guns are the only commercially available instrument in the world that we designed specifically for the purpose of the eradication of life. A gun’s nature is, as they say in the tech world, baked in to the hardware. It understands nothing else.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...


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To: nomad

Nope.


41 posted on 10/03/2015 7:49:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: artichokegrower
True, nothing says killing machine like my Caesar Guerini Summit Impact...

In an hour I will be slaughtering clay birds in mass quantities.

42 posted on 10/03/2015 7:51:12 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: artichokegrower

Only to a stupid liberal is there so much gun violence that we should ban guns but if you want a gun to protect yourself from all that violence you are just being paranoid.


43 posted on 10/03/2015 7:54:08 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Travis McGee

IF this is true, not only did they screw up, they tried to cover it up.


44 posted on 10/03/2015 7:55:02 AM PDT by nomad
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To: artichokegrower

The author:

“Mark Morford
Author, Columnist, ERYT500 yoga teacher, Admirer of trees”


45 posted on 10/03/2015 7:56:27 AM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: artichokegrower

There’s a problem in the US with morality.
A lot of it began with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
It was a brilliant political ploy but a moral disaster.


46 posted on 10/03/2015 7:58:28 AM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: artichokegrower
Hey Mark, look familiar?


47 posted on 10/03/2015 8:02:00 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

That is really funny


48 posted on 10/03/2015 8:06:18 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: artichokegrower
If I MUST spend time educating this dolt...

YES, Mark, guns exist.
NO, Mark, no amount of banning or laws or confiscations will EVER get rid of them. (I'm not a gun smith, but I know several who are. Take all you want, we'll make more.)

Given the two immutable truths above, the ONLY way to give oneself a fair chance against bad people with guns is to have a gun oneself. Knives, bats, police, cameras, phones, condoms, etc... none are as good or as just as a firearm in the hand of the potential victim.

If you cannot wrap your brain around those undeniable facts, then there continues to be no point in paying any attention to you.

49 posted on 10/03/2015 8:06:31 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Bryanw92; MichaelCorleone
31 posted on 10/3/2015, 9:11:28 AM by Bryanw92: “The Army vet was the only person with his head screwed on straight. He got shot many times, but nothing fatal. Because he fought. If there had been three of him, they could have taken this guy down easily, as the men on the train did.”

It's just come to my mind that the GI Bill may have additional advantages. Put at least one person with military training in a majority of classrooms, and lots of young students may start understanding the value of the military and of an armed citizenry.

I'm willing to bet there will be people at that community college who wish that military veteran had his gun as well as his hands as weapons in that classroom.

50 posted on 10/03/2015 8:17:44 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: artichokegrower

Mark Morford is stupid: he attributes living qualities to an inanimate object. By itself, a gun is perfectly harmless, can’t do any damage to any one.

Its the values of the person aiming a gun that will decide if its used for good or used for evil. Morford never addresses it.

You can ban every gun on earth but you can’t ban human nature. A liberal arrogant SOB engages in phony grandstanding to get off on his hoplophobia. Guns aren’t the problem in America.

I submit its liberals who have no respect for other people’s freedoms who are the problem. Morford is the problem and he butts in to tell other people that in his mind, he has the right to decide for them how they should live.

He needs to STHU and mind his own f*ckin’ business. No one asked him for his unsolicited advice on American’s RKBA which by the way, is guaranteed by our Constitution and repeatedly affirmed by our courts.

When it comes to gun confiscation, the Left has lost that argument.


51 posted on 10/03/2015 8:18:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LS

I try to stay fair-minded.


52 posted on 10/03/2015 8:18:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: GSWarrior

“Mark Morford. No need to read further, except for possible unintentional humor.”

Miss Morford must be back on her meds again, for there was barely a chuckle in this article. Usually, she’s worth a couple of belly laughs.


53 posted on 10/03/2015 8:18:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Is mark morford a tranny?


54 posted on 10/03/2015 8:56:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Do people really buy this nonsense?

Believe it. Brought to us by the same exact folks who see no problem whatsoever with tens of millions entering our country illegally. In fact the same people who'll tell you open violent borders are good for America while handing us the bill each month.

55 posted on 10/03/2015 9:38:36 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower
...guns are the only commercially available instrument in the world that we designed specifically for the purpose of the eradication of life.


You can stop lying now.

56 posted on 10/03/2015 11:04:25 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: artichokegrower

This article is from the land of fruits and nuts. Nothing more needs to be said.


57 posted on 10/03/2015 4:08:23 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: artichokegrower
From the linked article: "We pretend to promote the values of democracy, peace and freedom the world over, and yet we kill one another – and anyone who disagrees with us – more horrifically, and more consistently, than any terrorist cult could ever imagine."

Oh, sure. And this is why people are swimming the Rio Grande to get away from this awful mess. Why, nearly twenty million Americans have fled the U.S. for the safety of Mexico. It's fortunate that the people of Mexico have welcomed them with open arms and financial support.

NOT !!!

58 posted on 10/03/2015 9:05:54 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Bryanw92

True, the average person hasn’t in them to be noting but followers. It has ever been thus.

I know that I’m a Christian, peaceful woman, but you threaten what is mine, you will find the Meanest, person you’d not want to cross.

If they’d let Debbie and I go to Nashville and stick that SOB with the execution drug we’d both push it had and fast. So Nikki could have a tiny bit of justice she was promised by our corrupt courts.


59 posted on 10/03/2015 9:19:28 PM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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