Behind the black-powder muzzle-loaders, a row of dealers sells American Indian clothes, jewelry, music. And no one registers the irony.
I don't register the irony either -- what is the author talking about?
There is greed here, and collector's avarice; there is fear and bravado and bloodlust.
Oh, please calm down.
--Boris
"He's probably a liberal Democrat," says Meyer, "except that 38 members of his family were trapped in Europe in World War II. He says he'll never trust a government again. When it comes to gun ownership, they'll 'pry it out of his cold dead hand.'"
I doubt that this man is a liberal. My wife's uncle has numbers on his arm, and lots of guns. He's no liberal, nor are any of the survivors he knows (and neither are the other survivors that I've met over the years). He shares a similar distrust of governments, something that he has in common with the Founding Fathers, and a lamentably small number of people today.
Fascinating. Could this be grist for the SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS newsletter, I wonder?
It is a truth "ugly" only to those who think that a government is more trustworthy with the powers of life and death than an individual citizen. A government made up of those same citizens. This I simply do not understand.
I said that once myself!
Yeah, the article was enogh for two or three better articles, but it was pretty fair in the treatment.
But if they see the police, they scatter like mouses, and they just throw their gun someplace dark, someplace a little kid might find it.
Here's an example of the anti-gun vicious cycle, of gun control spawning more, because it fails: Gun control is what bans guns from these youths, which is why they need to throw them down when they see police officers, which is how some children find them and cause accidental deaths, which is why there are calls for more gun control. None of this would happen if the first step, the initial gun control, didn't happen in the first place.
And the criminals who cause the most real damage -- the gangbangers and drug dealers who make the fear of guns real -- don't show up here at all.Straw purchasers come instead, parlaying their own lack of felony convictions into an explosive inventory they'll sell on the street. There's always at least one degree of separation between them and the felons they arm.
And this:
"Our biggest problem is straw purchases," says Doug Dawson, group supervisor for the St. Louis office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Thanks to the National Rifle Association lobby, individual gun owners can sell from their collections without doing any criminal background check. Thanks to loopholes and glitches in data retrieval, dealers can sell to someone if they don't hear back from the FBI within three days. Thanks to basic human greed, some dealers still sell knowingly to straw purchasers.
Jumped right out at me. Maybe it's just me, but this article reads like a commercial for "Americans for Gun Safety" and the push to "close the gun show loophole." Yes, it's "even-handed" and more thorough than many of the articles I've seen, but for all the attention to detail here, the author forgot to mention that less than 2% of guns used in crimes come from gun shows or flea markets.
Too Much Feeling.
Too little thinking.
Doesn't matter if the topic is firearms, toothpicks, screwdrivers, or tanks. The real power is always the human mind.
How is it then, that the Dimukrats have so much power.
Right, their mindless voters...