[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?

[Knuckrider]

These two boys need a life.

[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!

[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!

[RJL]

Saddam has attacked/invaded both Iran and Kuwait. He has ordered thousands of his own people killed for political reasons and while testing chemical weapons.

No one here would object to removing the right to keep and bear arms from a person here in the US that has attacked and killed innocent people, just as we are trying to stop Saddam in Iraq.

The author is really reaching.

[c-b 1]

Somehow I don't believe that these two are terrified liberals that wet their pants at the sight of a gun. I suspect they have an adjenda.

Would they be willing to go start knocking on doors, themselves in an effort to disarm Americans? Somehow I suspect they would favor hiring mercinarys to do it, while they stay safely in their ivory towers.

[Nick Danger]

Wasn't there some big-shot rock star from the 1970's who recently put out a new CD and sold eleven copies worldwide? That's where these gun control guys are; they're relics. They used to be popular, but now no one cares about them. They have 2200 loyal fans who cheer when they sing, but that's it. The rest of the world goes on as though they didn't exist.

[DannyTN]

As long as it's Iraqi guns he wants to control, I'm all for it.

[montag813]

And yet the Bush administration - though ready to go to war to disarm rogue nations - allows itself to be outgunned by rogue citizens in its own backyard.

I agree...we should arm every single citizen with a semiautomatic 9mm pistol and mandate training. That way, law abiding citizens will never be outgunned by "rogue" fellow-citizens.

[steve-b]

Shame on you for posting this tripe without a BAZOOKA BARF ALERT.