Posted on 05/28/2002 2:27:07 PM PDT by 45Auto
Bwaaaaaaaahahahahaha!
Hahahahaha....he he he.
YES!
The author makes the mistake of thinking that gun control (confiscation) is simply another issue to play with as needed. Gun grabbers think it's a great idea for their own reasons, and are to be found in both major parties. They will try to sell the idea, not just pander to some part of their constituencies.
A paraphrase of Barry Goldwater, one of two of my favorite presidential candidates.
The next time the Lefties wonder why there is no active draft or that the president receives his military briefings from the Chairman JCS, rather than each branch separately(as did LBJ), they can thank Barry Goldwater.
How is it that Vermont has flirted with this dangerous idea of leaving people free for all these decades and remained unscathed?
Vermont exposes the tip of the iceberg.
During Clinton's eight years as President 25,000 new laws and regulations were created. That's over 3,000 each year.
Big Question...
How is it that Americans and society remain unscathed for years and decades without next year's three-thousand new laws... but come next year politicians, the media and academia will be telling us we can't live without those new, "must-have" laws?
Compassion hoaxing, "I'll-use-government-to-help-the-little-guy" politicians and bureaucrats pass an ever increasing number of laws that empower alphabet bureaucracies to "justify" usurping unearned power and glory by undermining the individual-property rights of the little-guy the feign to protect. It's an inversion of justice.
The only justifiable purpose of government is to protect individual-property rights. That can be done with far less than 3,000 laws --- not to mention 3,000 new laws each year.
That's us if we actually believe that garbage. The anti's will never give up. Ever. If the dems actually believe that gun control costs them elections, then let's start rolling back all the gun laws back to the 1850's.
Nails it. This explains why many gun-control political figures are all in favor of possession and concealed carry as long as it's just them. (Not only in favor, but in practice - paging Senator Feinstein, paging the late Carl Rowan...) This has always been true of ruling classes, and firearms are a dandy means of ruling-class prevention.
Stainless Series 80 MK IV bump! :-)
And until they do, I won't be flying commercial- though I could do so for free. And neither will a lot of other former frequent fliers.
How many bankrupted airlines do you think it will take until they decide to *reevaluate* that policy?
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What's happened here is that the Democrats are out of power. They don't have a prayer of actually passing any gun control legislation and they've determined that it won't help them in this falls elections to make an issue of it, so for the time being they are letting it slide. But if they regain power you can bet that one of the first things on their agenda will be yet more gun control.
Vermont demographics is about 98% European American (I know that statement is VERY politically incorrect) and when you have that demography, the level of gun crime is almost always at low levels.
When will we begin to accept the reality that large populations of minorities and illegals tends to be attended by high levels of gun violence and crime?
It ain't the guns folks, it's the folks that wield them illegally!!
Vermont demographics is about 98% European American (I know that statement is VERY politically incorrect) and when you have that demography, the level of gun crime is almost always at low levels.
When will we begin to accept the reality that large populations of minorities and illegals tends to be attended by high levels of gun violence and crime?
It ain't the guns folks, it's the folks that wield them illegally!!
Ignorance is indeed both deep and wide, and the staff of the New York Times has wallowed in it for at least two generations that I know of. They are not the "world's number-one newspaper," except in their own eyes.
But you may be overly optimistic to think that the fight may be coming to an end. The Left is passionately intent upon reducing the independent, self-sufficient, rooted mainstream American type to dependency. Disarming him will continue to be one of their important long-term goals. It is all about taking away our ability to ever return to the intended Republic of the Founding Fathers--reversing the Socialist advances in the 20th Century.
To anyone who understands the ethos of traditional America, it should be clear that we have premised everything on a responsible and accountable citizenry. Having citizens, individually prepared to defend themselves and what is theirs, makes the same sense that having citizens individually prepared to make their own way in the free market--the genius of the market system--makes. They involve the same concepts. And they represent the American way. But the New York Times had not been very interested in maintaining the American way; not for a long, long time now.
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The simple fact is that different CULTURES place higher value on certain virtues (and vices). And despite what the "multiculturalist-all-cultures-are-equal" crowd, some cultures are better than others.
"Who are you to say that some cultures are better than others?!?!?" the morally superior, intellectually miniscule will scream.
Simple.
You judge cultures the same way you judge religions (as a man much wiser than me noted), by "the fruits they bear". Many cultures are simply oppressive, backward, corrupt, and pathetic. Our culture, quite simply has produced the greatest, strongest, freest(sp?) civilization in human history. There isn't any other civilization even close.
The simple fact is that it is not some of our ethnic sub cultures that produced this remarkable acheivement. It is the values of western civilization (our particular brand) that produced this success.
So what you said is not RACIST, it is factually correct. And for those of you who ARE racist, brown skin does not keep a person from embracing the values of western civilization and making a fine American.
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