[SLB]

I have not seen this on FR before. Don't know if it just slipped by or not.

[SLB]

Interesting.

[Joe Brower]

Yes, this was put on FR the other day, but from a different source.

Anyway, it's worth a second post!

[TBall]

I saw part of his show a couple of weeks ago. Very good. The DDT myth he exposed was tragic. All those children in Africa dying of malaria.

[Clint Williams]

Some maximum security felons I spoke to in New Jersey scoffed at measures like the Brady law. They said they'll have no trouble getting guns if they want them.

So my libertarian side says let's rewind the clock (to 1968? or to 193x?) and undo all the so-called "gun control acts." They aren't accomplishing anything.

[VRW Conspirator]

Yes guns are bad. But the lack of such personal weapons...is worse, by magnitudes.

[trebb]

All I can say is that we will rue the day we start allowing SUVs to carry guns - we'll all be doomed.

[Bluntpoint]

Unloaded guns with trigger locks, locked away in safes...are bad!

You might just as well have a cantalope locked up in such a fashion as far as defending your family with it!

[spodefly]

... the felons say that the thing they fear the most is not the police, not time in prison, but, you, another American who might be armed.

What a surprise. I don't see any reference to this in any Brady literature.

[George W. Bush]

A Justice Department study confirmed what the prisoners said. But get this: the felons say that the thing they fear the most is not the police, not time in prison, but, you, another American who might be armed.

They're afraid of the armed citizen far more than police because the police will try to disarm them and take them alive, respecting their rights every minute of the way.

The citizen will just open fire and shoots to kill, not to wound.

I was delighted when FNC recently ran a story on the increase in armed readiness among the elderly. They pointed out that they, as a generation, are more familiar with guns than younger Americans. They went on at some length about how the gun equalizes the elderly with a younger, fitter violent aggressor.

They had an old lady, practicing with a handgun, that was a mugger's worst nightmare. There was little doubt that that lady could and would shoot if necessary. Or even if just presented with a good opportunity to demonstrate her armed skills.

I know a few old ladies like her.

Hahahahahaha...

[Geritol]

"Guns sometimes do cause terrible harm, and many kids are killed every year in gun accidents"

I am not sure I get it. Here we have the second sentence attributing cause to an inanimate object. I have never heard of a shirt causing death unless it failed to perform properly, or spontaneously combusted. Cars do not cause auto accidents unless they fail, otherwise it is some person's fault. But with guns, it is the gun's fault for operating as advertised or roughly so? This is a horrible abuse of the language. The fact that this anti-gun biased language literally starts the article that claims that there is no real gun problem that can be solved by gun regulation shows that the anti-ginners have re-written the language to inherently support their side. As they say, he who gets to define the terms almost invariably wins the arguement.

[PsyOp]

The Second Amendment - Commentaries

[Darksheare]

Zardoz says that guns are good.
I'll believe Zardoz over the anti-gunners any day of the week.
He's more based in reality than the anti-gunners, even for a B grade fictional movie character!

[Ohioan]

Guns are tools. A gun is no better or worse than any other tool. Like every other tool, its use depends upon its user; and its morality or other qualities are derivative--totally dependent upon that user.

For analysis of the underlying issue, however, see The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms. It is largely a symptom of the politically induced irresponsibility of our times, that so many fail to understand how basic the right to private arms really is!

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site