Posted on 01/05/2014 4:33:04 PM PST by driftdiver
The ex-Guns & Ammo Magazine writer fired after penning a column in favor of limited gun control is speaking out, bitterly saying, “I’ve been vanished, disappeared. Now you see him. Now you don’t.”
“Compromise is a bad word these days,” Dick Metcalf, 67, told The New York Times of what he believes is the unyielding, give-no-ground ethos adopted by Second Amendment supporters in the U.S. today. “People think it means giving up your principles.”
Metcalf, a longtime writer on firearms and U.S. gun culture, saw his association with Guns & Ammo terminated in November -- he also had a T.V. show co-produced by the magazine -- after he wrote a column titled, “Let’s Talk Limits: Do certain firearm regulations really constitute infringement?”
“The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be.”
- Dick Metcalf
Metcalf, a former history professor at both Yale and Cornell, argued in the piece that, “way too many” gun owners believe any regulation of the right to bear arms is an infringement prohibited by the Constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Dick thinks that 30,000 gun laws aren’t enough. All we need is one more law and everything will be so much better.
Compromise means "give and take" - it means both sides give concessions in order to achieve a mutual goal. We haven't seen compromise in decades - it's always the left taking and the spineless on the center-right giving.
The constitution, the second amendment, was written clearly and purposefully. The right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Period!
The left doesn't want compromise - they want absolute power over the people. And the only thing standing between them and absolute power IS the second amendment.
A year later, and he still sounds All Shook Up. Some bridges stay burned.
Well the article I linked is new. Sorry if it offended you.
Don’t worry, buddy, you’ll have a lot of new friends soon, the libs love conservatives who’ve ‘grown’.
Why, there's your problem right there, right out in the open. Who thought that this fellow-traveler would be a good hire, anyway?
No offense AT ALL. This happened two months ago, and only today the media are picking up on it. I am pretty sure that FoxNews wasn’t the first to report it today, so it seems they are following others in the media ... big surprise, huh?
libs can get away with no compromise. wonder why we can’t.
if you’re right, and standing for the truth, there’s no reason to depart from that point. only friggin idiots compromise off what they believe is right.
This guy really “screwed the pooch”, to use that unlovely phrase.
He should have used the 13th Amendment test on his ideas before publishing them. That is, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. So he should imagine approaching an (intelligent) black person, to ask them how they would feel about “making some ‘common sense’ changes to allow a little slavery again.”
Would he truly say that he opposes the “unyielding, give-no-ground ethos adopted by 13th Amendment slavery opponents in the U.S. today?”
“People think it means giving up your principles” to support ‘limited’ slavery.”
Metcalf, a former history professor at both Yale and Cornell, argued in the piece that, “way too many” people believe any regulation permitting slavery is an infringement prohibited by the Constitution.
Following Metcalf’s dismissal, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action to Bring Back Slavery in America, told FoxNews.com Metcalf “absolutely did not” deserve to lose his post.
“If he suggested enslaving all black people, then I would understand that reaction,” Watts said. “But to say a fair exchange of ideas on how to stem the deaths and murders in this country because of emancipated black people is an act of heresy just reeks of no tolerance.”
It is estimated that there are between 22,000 and 30,000 gun laws on the books in America.
Hard to believe there is that many nanny laws.
“Guns & Ammo” lost me as a subscriber right after I read this column. I called and told them to refund my subscription fee and they did.
And I won’t be back, either. I don’t trust them anymore.
“Shall not be infringed...” is a phrase that is above the comprehension of most professors, especially those from Ivy League and Progressive Universities.
Uh, asshat boy? The good guys have been "compromising" for decades and have NOTHING to show for it. So for this to be a real "compromise", viewed over the entire period, tyrant busybodies have to give us stuff we want and get nothing in return for the next 80 years. I'm up for it. Are they?
I got my refund too.
Did you notice the check was from some outfit in New York? I had never heard of them.
Some mens pride never fades. They are wrong and and die on a hill and the yell from the grave.
Nothing like speaking and removing any doubts about whether he is a dumbass.
Surprised me too. I never imagined a retired professor from those liberal cesspools would be writing for G&A.
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