Posted on 11/13/2004 2:34:57 PM PST by neverdem
Until they observe, listen and get educated about "our side" ...they will continue to push their agenda. They are so ignorant,they actually think that we are the ones who need education....as if they could possibly take a different route to reach their goal--and get *us* to get as brainwashed as them. HA! Good thing we think, read, and listen. sigh
These clowns (Kristof included), just don't get it. Here is the simple solution to the problem posed above: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED, SO DON'T POINT ONE AT ANYTHING YOU DON'T INTEND TO KILL!!! (Editorial comment only) DICKHEADs.
5.56mm
I had to jump in here again after I read this more thoroughly. NAME ONE, wise ass. I'm about as familiar with guns as anyone on this board, and I can't think of a single gun with this "feature" made in the 19th century, and only one that was made in the first part of the 20th (Colt 1911, of course). And that gun's not childproof - if they have it in their grip and pull the trigger, it will go off. What a F%%%%%g moron.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.
Sweet goodness.
"Next they would want to make knives safer. How, by making them dull? "
Yes, and banning knife sharpeners . . .
How do you make a baseball bat inherently safe? That poor med student was killed with a bat a few days ago. Make it out of styrofoam, I guess. Major League Baseball would be forced to play wiffle-ball.
Golf clubs would be banned, too.
Also, to avoid beating to death with a frozen cut of meat, freezers would be banned. We would have to buy our meat every day.
etc.
Yes, all practical suggestions to avoid 15 deaths a year of children under 5 -- so we also have to ban 5 gallon buckets, swimming pools, cribs (SIDS is more than 15 per year, not?) etc etc etc
One emminet 'gun nut' once wrote in a letter to a friend of his....
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them"
The gun nut was Thomas Jefferson and the friend he wrote these words to back in 1796 was George Washington.
ASSUME ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED, SO DON'T POINT ONE AT ANYTHING YOU DON'T INTEND TO KILL!!!
Sheesh, I get tired educating the journalists at the NYT.
5.56mm
I'm no authority, but I thought about the 1911 too. I wonder if Browning first used that grip safety in a design for another company before he set up his own shop.
8^) ROTFLMAO!
And he still missed....
"knows that by heart. Yours should too."
Go Eddie Eagle! My daughter about wore out the tape, when she was a toddler. (She also shot the H&K MP-5 last weekend). [Did I say that? Wouldn't that be DANGEROUS?? ;) ]
Don't be fooled by his rhetoric. This is more of the same old, same old. Loaded chamber indicators, magazine diconnects, "smart" guns etc,. Those are gun control too, and they have been part of the 'rat platform of incrementalist gun control for years. Just because the FBI told the Branch Davidians "This is not an attack" doesn't mean it wasn't one. Just because some NYT moron claims "this is an entirely new approach, one that isn't gun control at all, and one that the red staters can or will accept" doesn't make it true either.
LOL!
"Just trying to think like a lib..."
Did it hurt????
8^)
Think you're right, they still want a global ban, and they think they just need a sneakier way to get there.
They aren't addressing the problems that private gun ownership was intended to solve in the first place. This shows their ideological selfishness. They want a state monopoly of firepower, and they don't care about the entailed consequences of their ideology. And frankly, I wonder if they ever did. Care about the public, that is, as opposed to their political theories.
Can you get a bumper mount for that to fit a 99 Chevy Z71?
(Grip safety is a feature in Browning's 1911.)
It's also on my ancient colt target match but it doesn't work.The 1911 is a neat gun which featuures no less than 4 safetys which are effective but do not interfere with usefull function of the weapon.
I read the AMA was asking their members to questions patients on gun ownership. What business is it of there's? If my doc evers ask me that he'll have to fill out and sign this:
FIREARMS SAFETY COUNSELING REPRESENTATION: Page 1
PHYSICIAN QUALIFICATIONS AND LIABILITY
Part One: Qualifications
I affirm that I am certified to offer (Name of Patient:), hereinafter referred to as "the Patient", qualified advice about firearms safety in the home, having received:
Specify Course(s) of Study: ______________________________
From: ______________________________________________________
Specify Institution(s) ____________________________________________________________
On: ________________________________________________________
Specify Course Completion Date(s): ______________________________________________________
Resulting in: _________________________________________________
Specify Accreditation(s), Certification(s), License(s) etc.: _____________________________________
Check one, as appropriate:
___ I represent that I have reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private firearms ownership. I further represent that I have reviewed all other relevant home safety issues with the Patient, including those relating to electricity, drains, disposals, compactors, garage doors, driveway safety, pool safety, pool fence codes and special locks for pool gates, auto safety, gas, broken glass, stored cleaning chemicals, buckets, toilets, sharp objects, garden tools, home tools, power tools, lawnmowers, lawn chemicals, scissors, needles, forks, knives, etc. I also acknowledge, by receiving this document, I have been made aware that, in his inaugural address before the American Medical Association on June 20, 2001, new president Richard Corlin, MD, admitted "What we don't know about violence and guns is literally killing us...researchers do not have the data to tell how kids get guns, if trigger locks work, what the warning signs of violence in schools and at the workplace are and other critical questions due to lack of research funding." (UPI). In spite of this admission, I represent that I have sufficient data and expertise to provide expert and clinically sound advice to patients regarding firearms in the home.
OR
___ I am knowingly engaging in Home/Firearms Safety Counseling without certification, license or formal training in Risk Management, and; I have not reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private firearms ownership.
Part Two: Liability
I have determined, from a review of my medical malpractice insurance, that if I engage in an activity for which I am not certified, such as Firearms Safety Counseling, the carrier (check one, as appropriate):
___ Will
___ Will not
Cover lawsuits resulting from neglect, lack of qualification, etc.
Insurance Carrier name, address and policy number insuring me for firearms safety expertise: ____________________________________________________________
I further warrant that, should the Patient follow my firearm safety counseling and remove from the home and/or disable firearms with trigger locks or other mechanisms, and if the patient or a family member, friend or visitor is subsequently injured or killed as a result of said removal or disabling, that my malpractice insurance and/or personal assets will cover all actual and punitive damages resulting from a lawsuit initiated by the patient, the patient's legal representative, or the patient's survivors.
Signature of attesting physician and date: ___________________________________________________
You'll know Libs get it when they support cutting back on sex education in school and substitue gun safety.
Forget it. With (I think) the exception of Dubya's born-again religiosity, I think everyone in Manor Bush is a deep-down Connecticut Yankee, Yankee-bred and Yankee-raised. Bush may have been born in, and even educated in, Texas -- but he's a member of the Upper Class, and so he thinks like a clubbed-up, New England topsider.
Believe me, the Bushes' set (social and political) do NOT see the Second Amendment the way you do.
The Pew Centers' political typology survey showed that business RiNO's like the Bush family do not favor or support wide ownership of firearms, and are inclined privately to support strong licensing laws and other controls, official and unofficial*. To them, we're just "them". Employees. Hired hands. Not real people.
*For example, California and New York both have licensing laws. In practice, the discretion LEO's have in granting licenses means that you don't get a carry license -- but Ed Koch and Sylvester Stallone and other politicians and celebrities do.
The most succinct way to say it is that liberals and RiNO's tend to agree, that there is a very discernible trash line in society (somewhere just below their feet), and that only substantial, responsible people (like them) ought to have access to firearms. People like you, on the other hand, need not to have access.
Well, shoot!!!!..........I guess I'm gettin' too old and tired to do these graphics on the spur of the moment! Thanks!
All firearms are dangerous, but this does not make them unsafe. An unsafe firearm would be one that would injure the user when being used properly.
Sheesh. Even when they get it, they still don't get it.
LOL! PRICELESS
And they call us gun nuts?!?
oops..
Or full-on firearms training, lots of it, and crime-avoidance training, and how to resist a rape or kidnapping with the help of a sidearm.
Twenty years from now, I would like it very much to be known throughout the Middle East that you may be able to snipe an American from a "safe" distance, but that the very last thing you want to try to do is to kidnap one.
Especially since s'kerry, bless his stoopid heart, had the dumbness to criticize Bush for not pushing for the AWB renewal just before election. Poor guy just had too many things going against him, inluding his 'advisors.' Heh. (Thanks, Clintons, but don't expect us to return the favor.)
"My first choice would be repealing the 1968 GCA, which would really put a kink in state laws that depend on it for definitions and regulatory bases."
You are so correct. Although the import ban of 89 and the 86 machine gun ones need to go badly too.
And retool the 34 NFA a lot too. I'd raise the taxes to $1000 but make it easier otherwise to get things. Perhaps make it a licensed thing like with CCW.
"You can tell whether a camera is loaded by looking at it, and you should be able to tell whether a gun is loaded by looking at it,"
Yeah, I sort of hate to admit this...but I've taken a couple rolls of "film" with an empty camera. I was treating it like it was "loaded", but I couldn't tell until I cracked it open.
FRegards,
The anti-gun whackos ALREADY tried this tactic many times before. Remember when Clinton had his boy, Emory University's (remember the other famous LIER from Emory who wote a FRAUDULENT "history" book on the 2nd Amendment and guns in America?) Dr. Arthur Kellerman on the inside at the CDC? He used junk science and cooked "studies" to help suggest that guns were a major health problem (forget the high number of patients killed through medical mistakes by "doctors" like Kellerman). When called on his questionable "findings" (i.e., a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to harm or kill the owner than it is to harm or kill an intruder - or something as RIDICULOUS as that), he never released his raw "data" for independent, unbiased verification. In other words, he was a lying WHORE for the Clinton/Reno/Schumer/Feinstein anti-gun machine. When dems can't get the licensing, registration, and confiscating of guns done through legislation, they ALWAYS run to the ambulance-chasers, activist judges, and pacifist medical QUACKS in an effort to make an end run around our 2nd Amendment rights. Too bad for them that we are already on to their game, and IT AIN'T GONNA FLY.
Proper musket handling?
Ted Nugent Bump!
That's right. You're getting into their voter base when you start beating up on criminals. Throw them all in jail, and the 'Rats would never win another election.
"keep preaching on gay marriage,more gun laws ,how the military is bad,raising taxes on the rich ,christians are idiots,Then only then will they win.I'm trying to give them good red state advice. Dont forget to knock Nascar fans..."
Don't forget those trailor trash "Wal-Mart Shoppers"
I forgot to add left-wing maggot, inner-city mayors and union police chiefs to the ambulance-chasers, activist judges, and pacifist medical QUACKS that the demonRATS turn to in their incremental march toward Draconian bans on our guns.
This is the same BS socialist approach tried the American Medical Association years ago.
It failed then with a vengence.
Just the same old same old from the the Democrat (gay) party which has NO ideas.
oh yes forgot to mention. Even if the numbers are scraped off, they are still detectable due to the deep indentations of the metal.
Obviosly this poof has no concept of rights or firearms.
What is it about guns and Democrats? They simply are unable to get it. Guns are made to kill and it is impossible to make the gun itself any safer. Gun control has never been about keeping people from accidentally shooting someone, it's always been about taking guns away from everyone. Anyone who thinks Kerry would have been elected had it not been for gun control is an idiot. Had Kerry been pro guns he would not be a liberal. It's about being Liberal, not about the details of liberal issues.
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