Armed and Ready [George Will]

SJ Mercury News ^ | 11/5/01 | George Will

[harpseal]

George will get its right on gun control, finally.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[randita]

Excellent editorial! I agree whole-heartedly with this sentence:

This is so because freedom is not a gift from government, and defending it is not a duty that properly responsible citizens will entirely delegate to government.

[Twodees]

Maybe he does. Maybe he's pretending to have finally gotten it to salvage his readership figures. George is a pissant, really. I don't believe he gets it at all.

[DoctorHydrocal]

Will's change of heart on the Second Amendment is a monumental event in the evolution of thought on gun control among the chattering class. This eminent student of history finally experiences what the Founders felt in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War; i.e. both a shared and individual sense of responsibility for the safety and security of home, community, and nation.

[tpaine]

Yep, - this crisis seems to be finally waking up the beltway crowd to the fact that they are not immune from bad things.

Two bits the majority of congress are now packing. - They, of course, are allowed to ignore fed, state, & local 'regulations'. VSP's have their priviliges.

[tpaine]

"This is so because freedom is not a gift from government, and defending it is not a duty that properly responsible citizens will entirely delegate to government."

An yes, - but note he infers that 'properly responsible citizens' will delegate to government ----? [a large portion?]. - Not entirely, not all, - to be sure, - but George is a master of the waffling statement.

[dennisw]

Two of our happy gun grabbers

[tpaine]

The 'chattering class' lost one of their own, because she & her peers couldn't defend themselves.

- BIG wake up. - But I don't think it has fully sunk in yet.
More will probably have to die before it does.

[tpaine]

Please don't spam me thread with stoopid pics.

Thanks.

[some clown put enough pics in one 50 post unit the other day, that it took a half hour to load]

[ghostcat]

A welcome change of heart by ol george!!!

[Silly]

Good for George!

[4CJ]

Most browsers have a setting to ignore images (I do at the house on 56kb).

"Yet some say this is a logical time to multiply the legal hurdles for Americans seeking to defend themselves with firearms."
Yep, slam 3 planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and thanks to heroic passengers on a fourth flight narrowly avert a fouth diaster, and Dims want to ban guns.

*Sigh*

[mbb bill]

The gun grabbers do not stop to think that armed citizens keep the govermental stage for them to operate in. The university law schools take advantage of the uneducated gun grabbers to weaken the country so the terrorists can do as they please. The government is so weak they cannot face the un-american groups raising up from 40 years of public education.

[carpio]

Public safety is the public's business. Public authorities take the lead and some of them work at it full time. However, at all times, and especially in times like these, it is every citizen's business.

BTTT

[IGOTMINE]

Years ago, Will wrote about Snyder's "Nation of Cowards". At the time he found Snyder's arguments unpersuasive, but "bracing." It seems he's come home to Jesus, finally ;) BTTT!

[tpaine]

Nope, I don't have that feature. -- Any settings to ignore idiots?

[4CJ]

LOL - if I had that feature I'd ignore my boss

Not sure about Linux browsers, but here's what I use on Windows PC's
IE - Tools - Internet Options - Advanced - Show Pictures (uncheck)
Netscape - Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Automatically load images (uncheck)
Opera - File - preferences - multimedia - Show no images (check)

Of course, there is not a movement to ban "box-cutters"

[Tinman]

"Today the whole American people should feel informally enlisted in a kind of anti-terrorism militia."

This bears repeating.

Thanks for posting

Regards

[tpaine]

Thanks for your info. - No we have to get John Rob working on FR's new [selective] idiot ignore button.
- Like bosses, sometimes it pays to listen to them.