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What’s senseless is our tolerance for guns (What’s senseless is this moonbat author!)
Boston Globe ^ | January 11, 2011 | Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on 01/11/2011 6:13:29 PM PST by neverdem

AS LONG as we call mass killings senseless, we will never make sense out of them. “Senseless’’ has become a code word for denial about guns.

It kept coming up in response to this weekend’s rampage in Arizona, in which a disturbed 22-year-old college dropout armed with a semi-automatic allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Everyone from President Obama to Republican House Speaker John Boehner called the shooting senseless.

That, too, is what President Clinton called the 1999 Columbine school massacre that claimed 15 lives. But “senseless,’’ it seems, was an excuse for not tightening up our gun laws. In fact, the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004.

When the Virginia Tech massacre claimed 33 lives in 2007, President Bush said, “It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering.’’ True to Bush’s word, Congress did not even try. President Obama caved in early on guns, signing into law a rule allowing loaded weapons into national parks.

This weekend, in a heartfelt question from the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly, Giffords’s brother-in-law, asked: “What is going on in our country that such a good person can be the subject of such senseless violence?’’

What is going on is a quiet disaster. Neither Columbine nor Virginia Tech changed anything, and it is possible that not even an assassination attempt on a member of Congress is going to spur America into a fresh debate about guns and their availability to almost any angry, disturbed, immature, or coldly calculating citizen who wants to get their hands on them. We are in a quiet internal war that takes far more lives than what we are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and no one is calling for disarmament talks...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: banglist; giffords
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Subtract from those statistics the urban crime island effect, and we would look pretty good, IMHO.
1 posted on 01/11/2011 6:13:31 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

There is one truth that this do-gooder cannot seem to get his brain around:; THE CRIMINALS WILL ALWAYS HAVE GUNS. THE LAW-ABIDING NEED GUNS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE CRIMINALS.


2 posted on 01/11/2011 6:18:37 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: neverdem

Gives the authors E-mail at the bottom. A bunch of FReepers should send him an e-mail. Nothing angry, intimidating or anything. Just a well worded response to his senseless article.


3 posted on 01/11/2011 6:18:37 PM PST by Celtic Cross
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To: neverdem

Dear Mr. Liberal,

What is senseless is that no one else in the crowd had a gun and would therefore have been in a position to shoot back. That is utterly senseless and insane, however, such is widely regarded by people of your ilk as a “gun-free ‘safe’ zone.” Except that it isn’t, given that evil people exist and can get guns no matter what restrictions you would place on them. Your goal should be to encourage good people to get and carry guns, not the opposite.

But, alas, you’re a liberal, therefore, this will sadly fall on deaf ears.

Hey! I have an idea! Go read DU ... EVEN THEY get the idea of RKBA. And they’re on YOUR SIDE on almost everything else! What do you suppose they know, that you don’t know?

Sincerely,
etc.


4 posted on 01/11/2011 6:19:44 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: neverdem

Well, come and take them.


5 posted on 01/11/2011 6:21:02 PM PST by Noumenon ("We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.")
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To: neverdem

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Derrick-Z-Jackson/135956346435582
He’s a full-drag gerbilist.* They packed his pointed head with this stuff in
gerbalism school, and now he makes his little gerbil wheel spin like a top.


6 posted on 01/11/2011 6:22:01 PM PST by tumblindice (*How do I meet him? Dick Gere)
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To: neverdem
According to Eric Holder's DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by law-abiding citizens 2.5 million times each year to prevent violent crimes like murder, rape, carjackings and robberies, without a shot being fired 99% of the time.

But screw those 2.5 million people. The important thing is that we feel good about ourselves because we disarmed them.

Gun Facts

7 posted on 01/11/2011 6:23:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: neverdem

Other than Jacoby, the Globe Op Ed page is just the poor man’s NY Times Op Ed page, which is itself suitable for wiping your ass, lining a birdcage, and little else.


8 posted on 01/11/2011 6:24:44 PM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: neverdem

I think what the left is really trying to tell Americans is “What’s senseless is our tolerance for the US Constitution - it is out of date written by someone 230+ years ago.”


9 posted on 01/11/2011 6:25:27 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: neverdem

As the mother of a child murdered with a 2 ft 4 x 4 I can tell you it is NOT the weapon that kills, but evil people.

Since the creep has been released from TN prison I CCW.


10 posted on 01/11/2011 6:26:15 PM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: neverdem

Jackson is a well-known, long-serving Leftist doofus. He’s strictly to laugh!


11 posted on 01/11/2011 6:26:43 PM PST by pabianice
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To: tumblindice

A pea brained, deranged liberal masquerading as a black man, always has been.
Wonder how many pals he has in Roxbury?


12 posted on 01/11/2011 6:27:09 PM PST by acapesket
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To: neverdem

No Derrick what is senseless is our tolerance for morons like you.


13 posted on 01/11/2011 6:28:34 PM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; tumblindice

Thanks for your links.


14 posted on 01/11/2011 6:30:31 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Mr.Jackson needs a trip to the UK.


15 posted on 01/11/2011 6:31:52 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: neverdem

From Gary Kleck, leading reseacher at FSU on gun violence. Mind you he’s a lib but his research is spot on:

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?q=fsu+ciminology+gun+facts+&ei=LREtTZj9J4imM_qTmdQC&ved=0CBMQFjAE&hl=en&source=m&rd=1&u=http://www.advantagefet.com/gunfacts.htm


16 posted on 01/11/2011 6:32:08 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: acapesket

He’s 55 years old. And there are a lot of black academics like him—Leo Pitts comes to mind—who were afforded first class educations, but never learned to think for themselves.
They’re just liberal African gray parrots. It’s a damned shame.


17 posted on 01/11/2011 6:33:27 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: neverdem

Gee, I thought tolerance was GOOD.


18 posted on 01/11/2011 6:39:43 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: neverdem

The simple fact is that a middle aged white guy living in the suburbs has almost no chance of being murdered. If you’re not white, and live in the inner city, however - you’re prime meat. That’s not prejudice - it’s statistics.


19 posted on 01/11/2011 6:40:07 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Bringing children to America without immigration documents is child abuse. Let's end it.)
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To: Noumenon
"Well, come and take them."

Exactly. It's useless trying to convince these people in a rational debate about the meaning of the 2nd Amendment, how increase firearms ownership decreases crime, etc. They're ideologues, and therefore can't be swayed by reason, common sense, logic, or fact.

So to them, I say bring it on, bitches! Only they shouldn't send a cop or a soldier to knock on doors and round up firearms, they should have the courage of their convictions and and knock on the doors themselves. They should put their money where their mouths are.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

20 posted on 01/11/2011 6:41:27 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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