Posted on 07/22/2012 9:22:02 AM PDT by frithguild
You left off the sarcasm tag. Encouraging the ability to fight back will give people the tools to resist. Another law against something will just empower those who don't follow the law.
This is going to add fire to the Liberal and Obama specific Small Arms Treaty from the UN. The Liberals will let the dust settle and when the time is right let fly with the rhetoric about “ this is why we need the UN’s small arms treaty”. I feel it coming. They will milk this to the best of their ability. Be prepared my friends.
A tax on those who refuse to carry self protection devices. You must be a licensed pacifist or face a fine to cover the cost of providing security for you...
Which is my point in responding to the post I was answering. If Government is going to play any role here, it's to make those owners liable. Certainly, the patrons did not have to enter the property for the movie, but nor was the property owner forced to make disarmement a condition of access. If nothing else, the property owner has unequitably applied his policy. In this case, God only knows how many legitimate CCW permit holders voluntarily complied in the belief that the theater owner would enforce their ban. Holmes is proof that the owner(s) didn't.
I remember one September morning where 3000 Americans were murdered and firearms were never involved.
Another point to disagree with is that in preventing all violence it would also prevent violence against things like white-tailed deer, pronghorned antelope, wild hogs, bear and elk.
Preventing that kind of violence is immoral.
Let us take up the cause of banning all producers of needles and syringes...how many overdoses do we see in this quarter? If only needles and syringes did not exist there would be no heroin addicts and thus no overdose deaths. Better yet,....the Pharmaceuticals. Let us ban all medications...it is true that if one takes too many tylenol or aspirin it will kill. They would obviously say, used properly aspirin and tylenol would be helpful to patients and not kill. Would not the same thing be said of a firearm...if used properly, for what it was engineered and designed for, would not result in Joker massacres.
Here it come, thought, folks. Obama will seize the emotion of the left and Romney had better be ready. He needs to be ready to give a Constitutional reason why gun control is violative of Obamas oath to office. He needs to give a reason why it is more important now than ever not to be guided by the guile of emotion, but rather be deliberative and faithful to the Constitution. Emotionalism can be made to be a weak spot for obama if Romney just gives it a little thought.
Really? You rather that about 3 million of these are left on their own then? You mean you would rather that another Ted Bundy or James Holmes is left out there stewing in their demented mind?
There is most likely no way we could cover all..but is it worth it if we cover just one? I want you to go and ask the survivors of that killing if it would be worth it.
This used to be covered under local county administration. You are against that too?
Yep. Although Cyanide is sometimes detectable by smell, any number of gases would do.. Carbon monoxide, etc. It is simply a fact that in an enclosed area, it is quite simple to kill hundreds, probably easier without guns actually.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!
The simple (and all too simplistic) answer is that anyone who cannot be trusted with a firearm, whatever the cause, be it criminal behavior or mental defect, should not be running around loose. But confining them all is too costly.
On the other hand, having everyone who desires it armed and trained makes it likely that the damage inflicted by the miscreants will be minimized by those around them.
Well..they are running around loose and it is illegal for them to own a firearm.
And I was not talking about confining them. If you knew anything at all about the SMI, you would realize that there are several levels.
But then again, you couldnt understand, since you need to understand the simple answer.
And yes, if it was required that ALL LEGAL citizens of the country were armed..you wont get any argument from me on that point.
>Mentally ill people can get plenty of ideas and inspiration from violent “entertainment” in our pop culture<
And then, they are immersed in marxism and revolution by college professors and their peers. Sometimes, I am surprised we don’t have more of these atrocities.
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