What if Bush were as eager to control guns as WMD?

csmonitor.com ^ | 11 - 21-02 | Jonathan D. Tepperman and Avi S. Gesser

[Pat Bateman]

Found this on TFL, surprised it wasn't posted here yet.

[Physicist]

Yes, life here would be so much better if our government treated each and every American citizen as if he were a totalitarian terror-state dictator. Why doesn't Bush try it?

[jwalsh07]

Why is that? This is a conservative website, stuff like this is meant for DU, the toilet or bird cages.

[freedomcrusader]

There you go: liberals think the average American is as trustworthy as Sadaam Hussein. Have they figured out yet why they got their clocks cleaned in the recent election?

[dalebert]

Liberals think Sadam is more trustworthy than Americans

[freedomcrusader]

That's right I forgot - that idiot congressman who went to Iraq said Sadaam is more trustworthy than Bush.

[Knuckrider]

These two boys need a life.

[Pat Bateman]

And The Firing Line is a pro-2nd Amendment site. Things like this are posted so we can see what the other side is thinking, or simply for the humour.

[anniegetyourgun]

I'm gonna barf.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Pat Bateman]

That's WMD, not WND, though these two would probably want that controlled too...

[Puppage]

What if Bush were as eager to control guns as WMD?

Gee, I must have missed the part in The Constituion about the right to keep & bear Weapons of Mass Distruction.

[Gritty]

Imagine that...

...an entire screed on how to regulate and control guns In America, and not a single reference to the Second Amendment, which addresses the issue squarely!

[backhoe]

And The Firing Line is a pro-2nd Amendment site

And a fine site and forum as well. I saw this over there & ran a search on the writers ( I hesitate to dignify them as "authors..." ) but didn't care for the chore of stripping the html in order to post it there.

The first guy seems to write for The New Republic ( mid to far left wing, used to subscribe to it ) and the second was a student in 1997 involved with assorted "causes." Not surprising.

[fso301]

What if Bush were as eager to control guns as WMD?

The answer is easy: He'd be a clinton.

[45Auto]

"...allows itself to be outgunned by rogue citizens in its own backyard."

These boys are not playing with a full deck; or they have taken to glue sniffing. What idiots. Are these morons actually suggesting that the armed citizenry is more of a threat to the nation than a bunch of rag-heads on the loose? If so, then they have no idea of what the 2nd means and they need to review American History. My question to them is, "How much sense does it make to disarm the citizenry in a time of war come to American soil?"

[niteowl77]

You're surprised?

I'm surprised that Tepperman and Gesser don't want GWB going after five-gallon pails, aluminum stepladders and raw hot dogs- in that order. Oh, the beauts ready to pluck:

After all, it is only within the borders of the US that the government can realistically corner the market on force. And the need for such a monopoly has never been greater than today...

Now that tells me a great deal about this pop socio-political Penn and Teller... probably more than they'd care to acknowledge. These deep thinkers don't just "expand parallels," they mix 'em from scratch, bend them, and then inflate them to match their overweening egos.

I suppose saying that plastic buckets are the domestic equivalent of chemical weapons wouldn't get the nincompoops all lathered up, but at least it would be more entertaining.

[45Auto]

".....the civilian version of the M-16......a relatively cheap and portable tool than can wreak havoc and inflict great harm on a more powerful opponent."

Yuk, yuk. These guys are a hoot! The AR 15 in the hands of a well-armed and knowledgeable citizenry, can indeed, inflict great harm on any fools who think they can over-run this once great and still (relatively) Free Republic.

[SBprone]

Actually we have very effective gun control in the country. Watching Wyatt Earp last night on HBO reminded me of that. Earp enforced a law that prohibited the carrying of firearms in Tombstone and when the local gang of thugs insisted on breaking the law and shooting up the town and its citizens and Earp's brothers, he eventually hunted all of those lawless bastards down and blew their brains out.

Since the days of Wyatt Earp we just haven't had roving gangs of young gunmen who shoot citizens for fun and buy off US Marshalls when they get caught. When a young guy starts to act like Ike Clanton he gets noticed and he gets chased and he gets captured or killed by a lawman or other armed citizen. Thus the problem of folks running around and blowing their neighbors away is essentially under control, and has been pretty much under control since the OK Corral.

Weapons of mass destruction are not subject to the control of Sheriffs or posses or citizen militias. Defending against this sort of thing is what the United States of America was created for in the first place. In fact providing for the common defense is one of the few roles assigned to the Federal government until this century.

SHEESH!

[Pat Bateman]

Surprised this wasn't already posted on FR, for the humour therein.