End the Gun Epidemic in America (New York Times)

NY Times via MSN ^ | 12/04/15 | THE EDITORIAL BOARD

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America's elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let's be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism.

**SNIP**

Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

[Flick Lives]

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase pressure cookers designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.

[bert]

A better and more urgent course would be to end the New York Times. The blatantly anti American cancerous rag must be excised

[Spok]

Turning the Islamic terrorist issue into a debate on gun control is fueling a spike in gun sales like we’ve never seen. In my city, people are lined up for CCW’s and the gun shops can’t keep up with demand. Obama has inspired Second Amendment supporters in ways the NRA could only dream of.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If you are that afraid of the gun, you need to get rid of it, or overcome your fear and learn how to maintain and operate it safely.

Don’t rely on scaring assailants away by pointing the gun at them. That will get you killed.

[HotHunt]

[RandallFlagg]

Sorry it took so long. I had to do a bit of research to figure out what it was.

If this is your weapon:

It's a revolver -much easier to clean than a semi-auto.

Find a shop near you that sells Slip 2000:
Find a Dealer
It'll likely be at a shooting supply shop or a shooting range. While there, get a cleaning kit with a brass brush for a .38 or .357 -either will work. Also, get some cloth cleaning patches.
First, check for any flat screw heads on your weapon, and if they're loose, make them hand tight before continuing.
Keeping your finger off of the trigger, open the cylinder where the six cartridges go. It should rotate to the left of the frame while pointing the barrel away from you. Make sure that there's nothing in all six.
Take the brass brush and run it through all six cylinders and the barrel.
Then, take a cloth patch and run those through the same until the cloth comes out clean.
Take some wooden toothpicks and put a bit of the Slip 2000 on one end. Run the moist end at any point of the weapon where metal rubs against metal (The hammer, the cylinder central post where it spins, the trigger linkage, etc.)
Then, put a dab of Slip 2000 on one of the cloth patches and run it once through the same areas that you ran the brass brush -the cylinder and barrel.
Work the trigger, hammer, cylinder release pin over and over until the movements seem smoother to you.
Wipe off all excess oil as well as the entire weapon.

All you should have left to do is to get some .38 ammo and fire the thing. Just load a single cartridge first to get used to how it'll handle in your hands. When you've finished, clean it again to clean up all of the crud that should have shaken loose from the weapon's firing.

I'm just going off of how I clean my .44 Magnum revolver, but you can find a LOT of YouTube videos about how to clean a revolver (Or any other weapon)
I like Hickok45's videos the best, though.
Best of luck, and I hope this helped.

[Jim Noble]

This hysterical screed reads like it was penned by a homosexual Marxist.

The odds are good.

[Jim Noble]

The money quote. Insurrection is what they REALLY fear.

In the very long comment thread at NYT two days ago, I used insurrection as an answer to a poster who posed the "why would anyone own...." question.

Insurrection is a defined right, in fact it is a duty under certain circumstances, per the Declaration of Independence, and as such it is a retained Ninth Amendment right.

[RandallFlagg]

Speaking of Hickok45, here he’ll teach you how NOT to shoot a revolver:

https://youtu.be/VFBAcz16GvU

[oldasrocks]

“weapons of war”? Yep, weapons to stop a takeover of America.

[mulligan]

It would be better if the New York Times closed doors and quit publishing all that lying trash.

[VOR78]

Liberals being liberals. So we have a terrorist attack? Their first inclination, as is predictable, is to blame America first.

[Theophilus]

NY Times declares war against self/liberty-defending Americans. Guns and bullets for Christmas!

[Mears]

“Far less than the percentage of law enforcement personnel that break the law.”

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Poor comparison.

That 1/10th of one percent doesn’t spend much of their working day in contact with the “bad guys”.

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[trebb]

...yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

Because keeping weapons out of citizens' hands has been so effective for the good of their fellow citizens....

[Carl Vehse]

End the leftist epidemic in America. Start with the trial, conviction, and sentencing of the owners, publishers, editors, and reporters of the New York Times for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

[sergeantdave]

“It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.”

Let’s correct this:

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that Nazis disguised as journalists can legally call for the destruction of liberty in order to enact a “final solution” that will murder people with brutal speed and efficiency.

[Arlis]

One good thing that is happening with more and more of the liberals statements like this, the total stupidity of their positions is becoming more and more evident - and more and more Americans are rejecting their idiotic positions.

May their insane positions become more and more evident to all!

(Sorry for so many “more and more”s.....)

[OldSmaj]

...civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.

Well, I looked for one that was not designed to kill or that would kill them with agonizingly slow speed and inefficiency, but...

Absolute dumbest bunch of damned idiots on the planet.

The stupidity of the Chicken Little liberals is simply astounding and they cannot understand why we, as responsible gun owners ridicule them mercilessly.

They attempt to portray our derision of their puerile BS as heartless disregard for human life, when, in actuality, it our very regard FOR human life that prompts us to laugh at them and to continue to fight for our rights to protect our lives and those of our loved ones.

[Kenny]

You’d think they’d worry about ending the Ccaliphate first. Don’t these people have wives, husbands, children, or grandchildren who will be incinerated with the rest of New York if they don’t stop the jihadist?