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Just because people want to destroy the Second Amendment, DeLay said, "that doesn't mean our opponents are bad people."

Tom's a good ol' boy, but I have to disagree with him on this.

If gun-control advocates were honest, debate might be possible. However, they all too often result to deception and bold-faced lies to support their anti-gun agenda.

Myths such as "cop killer" bullets, and "15 children killed a day by guns" are examples.

Referring to semi-auto rifles as "assault rifles" is another masterful piece of deception on the part of the anti-gunners.

(I'm sure everyone here knows that a true "assault rifle" is a firearm which is chambered for a moderately powered cartridge, and is capable of selective fire.)

Anti-gunners lie too much, too freely, and too often, for me to ever consider them as anything other than evil incarnate.
1 posted on 04/17/2005 9:39:42 AM PDT by holymoly
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To: holymoly
Just because people want to destroy the Second Amendment, DeLay said, "that doesn't mean our opponents are bad people."

Delay is wrong. Anyone trying to take away our fundamental rights is evil. That's defintionally true.

2 posted on 04/17/2005 9:54:18 AM PDT by kcar (The UNsucks.com)
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To: holymoly
Just because people want to destroy the Second Amendment, DeLay said, "that doesn't mean our opponents are bad people."

I agree with you (holymoly, not Mr. Delay). The ignorant swine that continually and knowingly lie about the effects of guns in our society deserve no respect whatsoever.

5 posted on 04/17/2005 9:58:37 AM PDT by Hardastarboard
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To: holymoly
""Thank you very much for the warm welcome. I hope the national media saw that," said DeLay..."

Like it would matter?

7 posted on 04/17/2005 10:05:59 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: holymoly; kcar; dahicks; Federal Reserve Note; Hardastarboard

"Happiness is a warm gun."

8 posted on 04/17/2005 10:06:01 AM PDT by Enterprise (Abortion and "euthanasia" - the twin destroyers of the Democrat Party.)
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To: holymoly
About 200 people gathered outside the event to protest DeLay, who has partially apologized for his recent comments that the federal judges in the Terri Schiavo case would be "held responsible."

BullSh!t!! He DID NOT apologize for his comments. He apologized for the way he said it. I can't believe the Houston Chronicle would promote such an inaccurate statement.

Let's back up and review, shall we?

Rep DeLay originally said

...that federal judges in the Schiavo case had "thumbed their nose at Congress and the President" by not ordering the reinsertion of a feeding tube to the severely brain-damaged Florida woman. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," DeLay said.
And here's his apology
"I sometimes get a little more passionate, particularly during the moment and the day that Terri Schiavo was starved to death," DeLay told reporters yesterday. "Emotions were flowing. I said something in an inartful way and I shouldn't have said it that way, and I apologize for saying it that way."
Note that he DID NOT apologize for what he said (which is what the Houston Chronicle, to their discredit, and the LSM would have you believe), he apologized for the WAY he said it. BIG difference
10 posted on 04/17/2005 10:11:19 AM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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A bit off the thread here, but I caught a little bit of his speech last night. He sounded great and pretty up-beat for all things considered. He had a great line about the recent batch of statesmen from Texas speaking with "great eloquocity". Made me chuckle.
11 posted on 04/17/2005 10:12:20 AM PDT by yooling (Screw diversity! Celebrate excellence!)
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Just because people want to destroy the Second Amendment, DeLay said, "that doesn't mean our opponents are bad people."

Some of them are bad people, such as Chuckie Schumer, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary, Diane Feinstein and others of their ilk. Most are simply useful idiots who swallow the party line hook, line and sinker. The latter just need to be educated.

12 posted on 04/17/2005 10:19:33 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: holymoly
Just because people want to destroy the Second Amendment, DeLay said, "that doesn't mean our opponents are bad people."

If gun-control advocates were honest, debate might be possible. However, they all too often result to deception and bold-faced lies to support their anti-gun agenda.

Most of the people who support gun control are people who honestly and naïvely believe the stuff Brady, Schumer, et al. put forth. They are not bad people. That is not to say Schumer et al. aren't bad people--they are. But most of the followers are naïve, not evil.

Fundamentally, it is impossible to have a debate with someone whom you are calling evil. The goal of right-thinking people shouldn't be to dismiss everyone who disagrees with them, but rather to recognize that good people can be misled, and that it is consequently necessary to distinguish the good-but-misled people from the evil ones.

14 posted on 04/17/2005 10:53:44 AM PDT by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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Agreed ,the folks who wish to destroy the Second Amendment have an agenda that would result in the wholesale rape of the Bill of Rights & the questioning of the motives of these people should not be out of bounds.


16 posted on 04/17/2005 11:14:30 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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Having watched the gun control debate since I can remember it (1968 or so...) and being old enough to have had my first .22 bought by my father from Sears BY MAIL ORDER, I have come to the conclusion that pro-gunners don't get it. They consistently don't understand that this is a street fight. You don't fight a street fight by Roberts Rules of Order. You pick up a garbage can and bash it over your opponent's head. You break off a bottle and grind it into their face. You "continue to kick and stomp until victim is subdued."

What the pro-gunners don't get is that the opposition uses EMOTION and they're using FACTS. Emotion and facts are completely dissimilar and they're like ships passing in the night. Emotion will almost always win with the uninformed. Pro-gunners should be SCARING THE S*** out of people, not citing statistics. Scaring the s*** out of a housewife who is already afraid of crime will be much more effective than telling her about the number of defensive uses of firearms that resulted in no crime being committed in 1999. Besides, pro-gunners can always fall back on facts, the anti-gunners don't have any facts, at least no facts that aren't completely fabricated.

Wake up and smell the coffee, folks. This is a street fight. Start fighting like your enemy does.


17 posted on 04/17/2005 11:16:09 AM PDT by agitator (...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
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To: holymoly
I live in Panama and can remember right before Operation Just Cause one of the local legislators had his own private Army. He would send his thugs out to shoot up opposition offices and intimidate people.

His thugs on the back of a pick up truck brandishing AK 47s would drive by my house and then stop and shout obscenities and let me know they knew I lived in the community and they were watching me.

from that day I told myself I would never again be without a weapon and unable to defend my family. If they confiscate my weapons I will get another one. If I have to bury it in the back yard to keep it I will do that. But never again will I be defenseless.
19 posted on 04/17/2005 2:13:35 PM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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