Posted on 10/11/2017 8:42:43 AM PDT by rktman
It is time for civility to reign — and madness to be snuffed out.
That is why I am for conditional access to military grade firearms. More complete background checks, for example, including medical records. Limits on stockpiling ammunition. Mandatory courses in safe usage.
And more broadly, we need to have a dialogue about the place of guns in our society. I am not for banning guns. I do support the right to bear arms. But when a right becomes an acute threat to the general welfare it is time for re-evaluation.
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Yeah, like the security guy was shot 6 minutes before the barrage started? Anyone think the cops should have already been on the way in that case? Just wonderin’.
What is interesting is that all rights are an acute threat to SOMEONE. If this sort of thing was happening in every state in every month of every year, I’d be for some serious changes. And most of those would have to do with the people the guns.
I drive about 90 miles on high speed two lane roads every day on my commute. It works because it is not in the nature of a normal human being to cross the center-line at high speed on purpose to hit someone. If people start doing that en-mass, we will modify our roads. But first we’ll try to find a common element that causes them to do it to nip it before it gets to that point.
This is why it is imperative that we find out what this guy’s motives and viewpoint of life were that caused him to do it.
And a few people crossing the center-line “on purpose” every year will not require any changes. It will just be part of the risk of driving.
In a country of 330,000,000 people. this was a very low impact event, beyond the news and social media frenzy. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting shot and killed like that.
Alcohol plays a direct role in nearly 88,000 U.S. deaths EVERY year.
Isn't it time to "re-evaluate" this "acute threat".
Which one of these background changes would have stopped this guy?
Because people intent on murdering people will obey these "limits."
Just stop with the Stupidity.
Kurt Schlichter said it best.
"I don’t agree with liberals often, because I’m not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, “We must have a conversation about guns!” I still couldn’t agree more. And, since all we’ve heard is you leftists shrieking at us all week, I’ll start it off.You don’t ever get to disarm us. Not ever.
There. It sure feels good to engage in a constructive dialogue."
What limit on ammo? Is this a limit by how much space I have? If I buy 1000 rounds with each caliber I have, that’s 5000 rounds, if I buy that case of each while I still have a partial case, maybe that’s as much as 10,000 rounds does he think that’s acceptable? What if I buy a case of 3250? This is such a ridiculous statement to limit quantity of ammo
Maybe Mr. Brokaw ought to obtain a copy of a 1976 Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police position paper on firearms control that, among things, said “the registration, serialization, and licencing of firearms will not act as a deterrent to violence and will not necessarily identify the person perpetrating the crime” and that “cessation of firearms sales will not remove them from those who can do violence”. Seems most likely American law enforcement officials would share such views back then and certainly today.
He’s pro-”gun hunter”...
“Kin ah git me a huntin’ licen’ heah?”
And more broadly, we need to have a dialogue about the place of free speech and religion in our society... But when a right becomes an acute threat to the general welfare it is time for re-evaluation.
I am a space alien. But I have to say, when do we decide that we have had enough of the Alien induced madness? How many people will have to have their lives destroyed because they have been abducted by space aliens? Why can’t we realize we need to place some restrictions on space aliens?
Is he allowed to keep guns and hunt in his nursing home?
Accountability vs (ir)responsibility
Do not open that can of worms. LOL! Gun show this weekend. Stock up now. ;-) These assclowns are so clueless it’s pathetic. You’re not ALLOWED to buy over a certain number? Doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t.
Nah. That was red neck john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry.
Same kinda guy.
“That is why I am for conditional access to military grade firearms”
BS-
My 14 ancestors, gggguncles, ggggfathers, all fought at Bunker Hill, Saratoga other places with military grade firearms” that equaled or were superior to British military weapons.
Since 1710, when the queen of England awarded the American colonists their military weapons used in wars, all American soldiers have brought home military grade weapons up to 1968 when the anti-2nd Amendment jerks decided that it was illegal. But it ain`t illegal. The pople require equal or suoerior weapons of military design which the govt armed forces use. PERIOD.
“On the 23d of June 1775 Gen Bayley prepared an address to the Northern Indians which is here given in full Newbury Coos June 23 1775.The present war is only between the King and a part of the Lords and America. The Lords say all Americans shall become slaves or servants to them shall plow no more than they say eat nor drink nor war nor hunt but only by their leave shall not kill deer moose beaver or any other thing but by their consent. Americans say they will and that the King by the Lords advice has sent redcoats to kill us if we will not be subject to what they say. And we have THIRTY THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS GREAT AND SMALL [my caps] to fight in our defense we only want to live as we have lived here to fore. We do not want to fight if they would let us alone.”-p73, “History of Newbury, Vermont: From the Discovery of the Coös Country to ...” edited by Frederic Palmer Well
Anyone think Michelle Malkin is aghast at what Hotair has become?
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