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Gun safety debate is B.S. (NRA "worthy of firing squad," Palin "half-wit half-term quitter")
The Charleston Gazette ^ | May 30, 2013 | Journalism Professor Christopher Swindell, Marshall University

Posted on 06/01/2013 12:11:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.

I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream.

But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.

And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.

Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker's podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers.

And how does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of "Northern Aggression" as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness? History lesson: It was an awful Civil War won decisively some 150 years ago. Over slavery. The Confederacy wanted to keep African-Americans in chains and President Lincoln didn't.

Sure, there were states' rights issues, but nullification, secession, and treason were settled at Appomattox Courthouse. Sure, Reconstruction left a bad taste. But, resurrecting these same things, the way South Carolina is as we speak, is to invite a return to the whole concept of a Union.

Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.

We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president's agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.

Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.

To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, "We'll put a boot in your ---, it's the American way."

Except it won't be a boot. It'll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won't do them any good.

So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks. And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along, we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: banglist; cw2; guncontrol; nra; palin; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; secondamendment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marshall University. Enough said.


41 posted on 06/01/2013 4:57:51 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: GladesGuru

Well argued.

A problem for the Progressives is that they do not like people or freedom. SO they loathe the Constitution.

They can’t say so in so many words, so what they do is swathe it in laudatory words and phrases of respect and then bundle it out of the conversation as quickly as possible.


42 posted on 06/01/2013 5:02:38 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.

The NRA does not advocate armed rebellion against the constitutional government of the United States of America, and neither do I. However, the Second Amendment is there for the security of a free State - to prevent tyranny or to enable armed rebellion against tyranny, should that blight ever arise in our country. In the event of tyranny, I join with many NRA members in advocating for the restoration of constitutional government, in accordance with the written supreme law of the land and with our oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

43 posted on 06/01/2013 5:03:18 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.

Those that advocate tyranny always use this type of reasoning.

As for being in the mainstream, Mr. Journolist professor, you are way the hell out of it.

44 posted on 06/01/2013 5:10:26 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whoa! We have an angry liberal here who didn’t get his way so he throws stones and pouts. Rather than writing a piece that actually takes a little brain-power he carries on like a little kid throwing a tantrum. Talk about making one’s self look like an idiot!


45 posted on 06/01/2013 5:11:15 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; PJ-Comix
Here’s the e-mail address of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications...

Are you sure it's not the W. Rivers Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications?

46 posted on 06/01/2013 5:12:34 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2D I hope this nut job reads the posts on this piece.


47 posted on 06/01/2013 5:26:50 AM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Your tax dollars at work.


48 posted on 06/01/2013 5:33:09 AM PDT by sport
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To: VeniVidiVici
It would be a joke except that this professor is poisoning the minds of the next generation of voters and leaders.

To the NRA:

The NRA will LOSE! Why?

Answer: Because the NRA focuses on immediate legalistic skirmishes while the nation's children ( and next generation of voters) attend our nation's socialist-entitlement and godless K-12 schools and universities. These schools and universities are filled to the brim with Marxists, homo-bullies, and teachers who were trained by professors of this ilk.

The godless Marxists are laughing at us and at the NRA.

49 posted on 06/01/2013 5:37:20 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: meyer

My guess would be either affirmative action or political connections, or a combination of both.


50 posted on 06/01/2013 5:43:17 AM PDT by sport
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To: meyer
How, pray tell, did this raving liberal lunatic “rise” to the level of Professor?
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The way Bill Ayers, and Dohrn did. Communists in academia of my father's generation ( born 1913) mentored them, opened the academic doors, and greased the skids.

Conservatives are DUMBER than a box of Cracker Jacks. They have for DECADES been blind to the indoctrination of up and coming generations of youth who will be our nation's voters. They have, and continue, to support the very indoctrination centers ( misnamed “public schools” and universities) that are POISONING the well of freedom.

Charlton Heston emphasized that we are failing to pass the torch of freedom.

51 posted on 06/01/2013 5:44:27 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: meyer

How, pray tell, did this raving liberal lunatic “rise” to the level of Professor?
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The same way poop does.


52 posted on 06/01/2013 5:45:29 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

attack Sarah like that and you show you are asshole


53 posted on 06/01/2013 5:45:55 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Olog-hai

“What does he have against people from Crete?”

First of all, he needs to know that cretinism is caused by thyroid deficiency & has nothing to do with politics.

Second, this ignorant lib surely doesn’t know that the Island of Crete is awash in guns and has been that way since the Nazis invaded. Cretan people know firsthand about invasion & the ability to fight back (note to prof: the Germans had tanks, planes, & artillery) and a succession of governments in Athens decided long ago to leave well enough alone when it came to enforcing Greece’s restrictive gun laws on the Cretans.


54 posted on 06/01/2013 5:55:34 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: ScottinVA

When they come with all that hardware I’ll be gone.Out looking for people like the good Dr.


55 posted on 06/01/2013 5:58:31 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical extreme left-wing racist class-warfare crap.


56 posted on 06/01/2013 6:08:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: wintertime

Charlton Heston was instrumental in getting the 1968 Gun Control Act passed. Typical hollywierd liberal.


57 posted on 06/01/2013 6:13:53 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They always start with the qualifier about what they think is reasonable for you to own and some how this makes them pro second amendment. This shows a fundamental ignorance of the constitution and the bill of rights. If the police needs to have a fully auto carbine (assault rifle) and several 30 round magazines. Then it stands to reason I should also have these. Since we face the same threats as they face. If we did not face these same threats we would not need police. The threats from a tyrannical government in which the police are a arm of not with standing.


58 posted on 06/01/2013 6:42:38 AM PDT by DeWalt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“DR. CHRIS SWINDELL
Broadcast Journalism
MU Report, Adviser
(304) 696-2729”

Thank you, was looking for just that information. Check out the comments after the article. He is being destroyed by a tsunami of comments.

Swindell tried to keep up for awhile, but must have finally walked away. What a jackass!


59 posted on 06/01/2013 6:48:25 AM PDT by Bshaw (,A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: ScottinVA

“If the regime has to use that to take down a group of patriots defending what’s left of their country, then so be it. I can’t think of a more glorious death. It sure as hell beats captivity in a FEMA death camp.”

You got that right brother, I’ll be standing next to you with one on my back, one in the holster, and one in my hands. I’ll bring beef jerky too!


60 posted on 06/01/2013 6:51:25 AM PDT by Bshaw (,A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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