Never Mind the Sword. Here, the Pen Is Meeting the Smith & Wesson.

NY Times ^ | 7-14-02 | IVER PETERSON

[Pharmboy]

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it happens, is one of the groups that is suing the gun makers, and Dennis Henigan, its legal director in Washington, did not like Mr. Bane's quip at all. "I find the quote just outrageous and insulting," he said. "To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

No Dennis--it is an appropriate comparison. Neither you nor the KKK respect individual rights and you are both extremists. Live with it.

This is quite interesting, eh? A non-negative article on the gun industry by the Times. Has hell frozen over?

[Pharmboy]

What's next for the Times? An interview with Eddie Eagle?

Many interesting things brought up in this article, for example, the inclusiveness of the gunners.

[meenie]

NOW should be endorsing CC soon after these articles. This equalizes the female with the brute strength of the obnoxious male who would do the little lady harm.

[Pharmboy]

Yep. G-d created man and woman. Sam Colt made them equal.

[SevenDaysInMay]

As we defend ourselves against those who would murder us, gun nazis will be set back 40 years or more. The disarmed will have a death toll equal to or exceeding the armed citizens from this Pan-Islamic/Chinese axis of evil. Gun free zones make our enemies' attacks that much lower cost, for our enemies. Ordinary perps will find their peculiar line of work hazardous.

[mewzilla]

Heck hasn't frozen over. The Grey Lady had dropped her drawers for the Left way too many times and is now desperate for readers. When you think about it, this story is more of an insult to our intelliegnce, really. As if the NYT would really clean up its act....

[mewzilla]

er...intelligence :)

[Pharmboy]

Just the fact that gunners were not portrayed as drooling idjyots is progress no matter how you look at it.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

Has hell frozen over?

I just looked out my window and I can see four oddly dressed men in tattered armor with scrolls in their hands on the streetcorner. I have no idea who they are but to me they shure as hell do not look like the pimps I see every other time I lookout the window!

[TC Rider]

"To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

Let's try this one, 'Calling the Brady people on guns, is like calling Stalin for info on Freedom of the press', or 'Calling Brady on guns is like calling Nazis on religious rights'.

"That is probably the case, but no more than journalists are conversant on other dangerous products," he said.

Nice little slam there, Brady boy

"The mistake, though, would be to turn to the gun industry for that information rather than other sources, because they have their own profit-motivated bias."

And what motivates the Bradys? I suspect some are profit-motivated, after all their 'eternal' struggle, like the NAALCP does pay the rent. For most I suspect a Socialist agenda that includes disarming America.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Agree. This is a good step.

[TC Rider]

This is quite interesting, eh? A non-negative article on the gun industry by the Times. Has hell frozen over?

Still totally toasty I'm sure, gotta have a warm seat for the management of the Times and the Brady's.

I'm sure the editors like at least one story a year like this, it keeps them 'balanced' against the hundred anti-gun stories they'll publish.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

An interview with Eddie Eagle?


Is he still ski jumping?

[Pharmboy]

I'm sure the editors like at least one story a year like this, it keeps them 'balanced' against the hundred anti-gun stories they'll publish.

True enough, but they did publish this in the Sunday Times for maximum exposure rather than Saturday's paper for minimal exposure. Maybe 9-11 has gotten to some of the Gray Ladies' Reds?

[Zon]

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it happens, is one of the groups that is suing the gun makers

Sarah Brady, please explain how an inanimate object can harm a person. Perhaps you could start by explaining how a rock can hurt a person and progress to explain how a boot can hurt a person.  Then explain how a drug can hurt a person. Then you could move on to explain how a gun can hurt a person.

Or will you concede that an inanimate object in and of itself cannot harm a person.

inanimate: 1 : not animate: a : not endowed with life or spirit b : lacking consciousness or power of motion
2 : not animated or lively :

[Pharmboy]

Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards

Hmmm. I would've thought you knew the difference...;-)

[Zon]

Perhaps the NYT publisher accepted reality:

The War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers

Politics is not the solution. It's the problem!

The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.

Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.

Aside from that, keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today. 

Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.

Any government agency that is a value to the people and society -- which there are but a few -- could better serve the people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.

Wake up! They are the parasites. We are the host. We don't need them. They need us.

[FreedomPoster]

"I got a kick out of shooting, and I'm thinking of getting one," she said. "I want to get one. I really do."

Take a non-shooter to the range today. Even if they're leftists. If they don't get a big doofy grin on their face, the first time they manage to put lead on the target, they probably aren't people you want to spend any time around. You'll probably make a convert.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

>>Hmmm. I would've thought you knew the difference...;-)


Yeah, he looks different without his skis.

[tubebender]

"... but she liked a cute little number from Smith & Wesson called the LadySmith. "

Uh... does thus mean I can come out of the closet and admit I have a Lady Smith in the safe? (and it's not that little)