- The positions of most urban liberals on firearms are
dumb, dumber and dumbest.
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- It is dumb to suppose that the way to decrease crime
is to make sure all potential victims of violent crime are disarmed. It
is dumber yet to believe that a criminal will obey a gun-control law. No
bank robber or rapist has ever set out and then stopped and said, "Gosh,
I don't have a permit for this weapon, so I guess I'd better not rob that
bank or rape that girl." No serial killer has ever said: "Gosh,
I can't kill this person with an unregistered weapon. That would be against
the law."
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- The dumbest idea is to suppose that an inanimate object
can turn a noncriminal into a criminal. To believe that guns cause crime
is as stupid as believing that hammers and saws cause houses. It is the
grossest kind of mindless superstition to suppose that some magical qualities
of an inanimate object can overpower the human will.
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- A gun is neither a romantic nor a sinister object. It
is just a plain tool, like a hammer, a saw or a router. It can be used
for recreation, and it can be used for self-defense. Like a chain saw,
it can hurt its owner if the owner is careless or stupid. But the modern
firearm is inherently safe. The gun cannot load itself or fire itself.
Properly stored and used, it is safer than a stepladder or a swimming pool
or an automobile. It is even safer than eating.
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- Here are the statistics from the National Safety Council:
In the year 2000, firearms killed 600 Americans accidentally. That's 600
out of nearly 280 million. Here are the other numbers of accidental fatalities
for that year: autos, 43,000; falls, 16,200; poisons, 11,700; drowning,
3,900; ingestion of food or other object, 3,400. The only number of fatalities
lower than accidental firearms deaths is that from poison gases - 400.
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- The next time some urban liberal tells you he just wants
to make firearms safer, tell him to consult the National Safety Council,
stick the statistics where the sun doesn't shine and then go straight to
hell for being a big, fat liar. Sorry to put it so harshly, but I can't
abide lying politicians.
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- I was born into a home with guns, I have lived my whole
life in homes with guns, I have raised my children in homes with guns,
and I have worried enormously more about their scuba diving and sky diving
than I have about their contact with firearms.
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- Furthermore, when I married, I assumed the responsibility
for the safety of my wife and children. I was never willing to bet their
safety on the possibility of my skills in unarmed combat overcoming an
intruder. I suppose it comes from my Celtic blood, but when it comes to
defending those I love, I'll kill any number of people to keep them safe,
and I have always made it my business to have the means of doing so at
hand. I gave up fair fights in the second grade. I have seen too often
with my own eyes what psychopathic scum can do to innocent human beings.
To use Mr. Donald Rumsfeld's style of speaking, do I trust human beings?
No.
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- The Founding Fathers of our country, as politically incorrect
as it might be to say so, were revolutionaries who had to use violence
to overthrow tyrannical rule. They wrote the Second Amendment not to make
sure people could go duck hunting, but to make sure that they would have
the means, if necessary, to overthrow tyranny again. The meaning of the
Second Amendment is clear to all but those who hate the idea of a free
people. It states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed." It does not say members of the militia or
policemen or soldiers. It says the people, and it means every individual
American citizen in this God-blessed land, whatever shyster lawyers have
to say notwithstanding.
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- Unfortunately, the world is still ruled by force, and
a disarmed people are not free, but at the mercy of those with arms. I
hate the very concept of being "at the mercy" of anyone.
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- If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe
in the right to have the means to defend that life. Unless you wish to
spend years learning the bow and arrow and the broadsword, I'd suggest
you join 4 million others and me in the National Rifle Association, lest
a bunch of dumb urban politicians put you and your family at the mercy
of any wandering criminal.
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- Comment
- From Sheryl Jackson
- 11-15-3
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- Well, there you go again, casting aspersions out of the
side of your face, Charley. As one of the most LIBERAL of the liberal
3D bunch, I would like to share this with you.
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- Most of us do not have weapons because we believe in
the good of man, and do not live in fear of the thoughts we have, so we
are seldom paranoid about the thoughts of others. We know that BAD things
happen to GOOD people every single day we live.
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- Because we do not fear the rest of the population we
do not perceive a need for guns. However, if you want to have one, I support
that, especially if you learn about REAL gun safety, How can you be against
all gun manufacturers installing locks on all weapons bought by the population
for home use?
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- If you have children, grandchildren or neighbor's children
how can you possibly be against that kind of safety?
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- The reality is that if the criminals have them, then
the population NEEDS them. But don't forget the INSANE court cases that
have awarded vast sums of money to criminals who have been shot or injured
by farmers and others who have tried to defend their homes with guns against
the criminal element who had gained entry to privately owned buildings
with larceny as the objective.
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- The laws are the problems and the judges who reside over
these INSANE court cases. Not the 3D liberals who support both gun ownership
and gun locks.
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- Once again you are stirring the "honey bucket"
just to make a stink, without truly knowing what you are talking about.
It is the present Klanking of the Korporate Klaw that wants to get rid
of guns that stand in the way of their totalitarian planning department
who wants to disarm us, not the 3D crowd.
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- Why can I see that and you can't?
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- Sheryl Jackson
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