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"Guns kill people: Abolition is the only way to stop the madness"
The Charleston Gazette (W. Virginia) ^ | 2/4/07 | Jeremy M. Burnside

Posted on 02/05/2007 8:15:23 AM PST by kiriath_jearim

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To: kiriath_jearim

I'm curious to know just when, in young Jeremy's skull full of mush, personal responsibility and accountability begins to enter the equation. Somebody should swat him in the @$$ with a Louisville Slugger and tell him it was the bat's fault.


101 posted on 02/05/2007 8:59:42 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Petruchio
"Guns are for hunting politicians, who through their tyranny steal your rights"

Abraham Lincoln

Hmmm, concidering Lincoln was shot . . . Was this quote the correct choice?

What did JW Booth say when he shot him?

"Sic Semper Tyrannis (thus always to tyrants)"

Nothing like a little irony in your diet.

102 posted on 02/05/2007 9:00:17 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: kiriath_jearim

Notice how many more of these articles there are since Demoncrats took over the Senate and House?


103 posted on 02/05/2007 9:02:08 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: eyeamok

Read it again. This idiot lawyer, and I, are talking about the Constitution, as are the cases I mentioned.

Who do you appeal to once the SCOTUS has ruled? As I said, when the "Anointed Nine" make their decrees, it IS the law.

And you can disagree with the SCOTUS all you want. But do you know what you call someone who refuses to submit to the decrees of the SCOTUS? Either "prisoner" or "cadaver."

Mark


104 posted on 02/05/2007 9:03:57 AM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Evidently the murder that sent the author off on his tirade was the one described in a short newspaper article titled, "Police say 3 Dunbar residents killed with same gun". Apparently police were dispatched to the site of a domestic dispute complaint, and found a husband, his wife, and his daughter shot in the head. I did not find a follow-up article, but preliminary speculation indicates that it could have been a double-murder suicide.

Evidently the murderer was not responsible for either the murders or the suicide, rather it was clearly the fault of the gun.

105 posted on 02/05/2007 9:07:04 AM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: kiriath_jearim

Not keeping your pants zippered kills more people annually than guns ever could.

CHASTITY BELTS FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!


106 posted on 02/05/2007 9:09:13 AM PST by Killborn (Age of servitude. A government of the traitors, by the liars, for the sheep.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
On New Year’s Eve, my friend and rowing teammate was killed by a gun in Dunbar. Regardless of who pulled the trigger, I blame the gun.

As a first sentence, this writer is thoughtful. saved me the trouble of reading further.

According to Captain Obvious, regardless of why guns (and knives, and baseball bats and chainsaws and cars) were invented, our Constitution guarantees me the right to "keep and bear" any of the above.

Strange as it may sound, the Framers of our Country's laws actually knew the difference berween pistols, and muskets, and firearms, and tire irons...
Well, maybe not tire irons.

107 posted on 02/05/2007 9:09:56 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
I wrote the Gazette in 2003 regarding a shooting at my graduate college, the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia.

Well does anyone know how many words he used to attack the broken system that let the shooter in the county to begin with. I would bet not one!

108 posted on 02/05/2007 9:10:12 AM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: CholeraJoe

You're not treating 'em right.
I took my guns out shooting last Saturday. Delivered a bunch of led into steel targets at the Riverbend Gunclub "Cowboy Town." Not one of 'em tried to a shoot a person, though Marlin did have misfeed that cost me a clean sweep... (a very slow clean sweep, admittedly...).

As for this guy, maybe Burnside wasn't much of General, but I bet he'd be horrified at what his descendents have become...


109 posted on 02/05/2007 9:11:55 AM PST by Little Ray
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To: LIConFem
Libs love to anthropomorphize and vilify inanimate objects. Makes banning them easier.

It also plays right into the 'victim' mentality...even the killer who used the gun cannot be at fault as long as the gun did it.

The killer becomes a 'victim' of the 'gun culture'.
The victim becomes a 'victim' of the same.
110 posted on 02/05/2007 9:13:14 AM PST by bamahead
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To: kiriath_jearim

"I'm An Idiot, Please Lock Me Up" by Jeremy M. Burnside.


111 posted on 02/05/2007 9:14:37 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl (OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
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To: kiriath_jearim

To summarize the author's mindset,

"The only way to change the will of others is to get them to change their will, then we don't have to worry about them changing their will.

If that doesn't work, then just outlaw anything they might use to implement their will on others.

Ultimately we must outlaw law!" /reductio ad absurbum off


112 posted on 02/05/2007 9:14:59 AM PST by Cvengr
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To: kiriath_jearim

Yeah, here is what I want from these "heros". When you publish some screed like this, include your address, your home address. Additionally, post a sign on your lawn. "No Firearms In This House".

Think they will?


113 posted on 02/05/2007 9:15:31 AM PST by alarm rider (Fear of Hillary is the distinguishing feature of the average and even well educated conservative.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I read that article in the paper yesterday morning..The faulty lapses in logic and patrician liberal thinking are so intense, they made my nose bleed.

His attitude is, screw the people if they dont want their guns confiscated, we know better than they do what is good for them.

And he has no real understanding of Miller...btw..


114 posted on 02/05/2007 9:15:54 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (The Coldest Blood Runs through my veins..you know my name..)
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To: Holicheese

And several jugs of holy water. ( garlic and wooden stakes optional)


115 posted on 02/05/2007 9:17:41 AM PST by Beagle8U (Thompson / Hunter 2008)
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To: eyeamok
"Guns are for hunting politicians, who through their tyranny steal your rights"

This is such a blatant call to violence, almost an incitement, that it would be very useful to know when and where Abraham Lincoln made that statement.

Personally I am skeptical.
No, I have not read everything that Lincoln wrote and uttered...
But I am certain that repeating words genuinely uttered or written by Lincoln cound never be characterized as "criminal".

116 posted on 02/05/2007 9:19:07 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: mainepatsfan

"People were not."


Cain and Able.


117 posted on 02/05/2007 9:19:45 AM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

This hyper-emotional idiot graduated law school? What do they teach there?


118 posted on 02/05/2007 9:22:04 AM PST by shekkian
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To: kiriath_jearim

Oh, for the days before firearms, when nobody ever died!


119 posted on 02/05/2007 9:22:27 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: Disambiguator
Very bad argument, that the difficulty of doing something makes it illegal to implement as law.

Every citizen is considered guilty for not filing an income tax return and, unless each proves otherwise individually, all 300 million of them, he is assumed liable for the highest tax rate possible on all income, and assumed to have no deductions.

What could be more absurd and difficult to implement than that? Yet that is the law of the land, applied constantly, every day.

120 posted on 02/05/2007 9:25:34 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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