Posted on 04/09/2009 4:22:58 AM PDT by cbkaty
The Houston Chronicle is such a leftist tool .... they went on the record years ago as trying to mold Houston opinion as liberal, the fools. They sent to Albany, New York, for heaven's sake, for a new editor-in-chief. He's still there, trying to graft New York political values onto a Texas vinestock.
Now the good news: The Chronicle had a huge layoff two weeks ago, lots of fallout and bitterness, they even canned their longtime state-capitol bureau chief and their NASA beat reporter. This soon after a 1/3 raise in their newsstand price to a full dollar, which is when I quit reading them. They're another media dinosaur headed for the boneyard.
Great, big Russian Stetchkins on full auto? Beretta M-9's in three-round burst mode?
98 rounds fired / 13 victims = more than 7 shots per victim. It doesn’t take a great deal of skill if one is simply pulling the trigger as fast as possible . . . this doesn’t look like a series of carefully aimed shots, but rather like someone shooting wildly into a helpless mass of people at close range.
I concur — it’s probably just like you say. This guy doesn’t sound like Rambo to me, just some nut.
-”Why I am going to get those $&^#er that messed with me. They will all pay....”
+”Welcome to Gun World”
-”You got any ammo? I need lots”
+”What caliber sir?”
-”What ever goes with this.”
+”Woh, sir, put that away please. That is a 9mm. Here is our 9mm selection.”
-”What about that big box there.”
+”That is a hundred rounds. 125 Dollars”
-”ONE Twenty FIVE! That is outrageous! Screw this I am going to go watch American Idol”
+”Sir! You forgot your gun! Sir....”
The maximum of foolishness is provided by P.J.Bailey......
I certainly hope that after the two most recent mass killings in New York and Pennsylvania, Texas legislators will review the bill on allowing people to carry guns to the workplace and leave them in their cars! P.J. Bailey, Missouri City
Politics, like the stock market, isn't about the Truth. It's about perceptions. This guy thinks he can sell the perception that thousands on thousands of law-respecting CHL's are metaphysically contradicted and counterfeited by these widely-separated incidents.
I smell press drumbeat. Here they go again.
so that they can vote Democrat in the next elections.
I'm trying, of course.
The federal government has allowed the gun lobby to bamboozle the public into believing outrageous claims about guns for decades now. Here are a few of these claims: That loaded and “ready” handguns will protect you, that people that kill with firearms are “crazy” or “criminal,” that there is nothing we as a society can do to stop the bloodshed except arm ourselves. Then there is the truth. The rest of the civilized world seems to understand simple ideas like available handguns equal firearm death and firearm death numbers in these countries bear this out. As for “crazies” and “criminals,” most women who die from gun violence are killed by husbands and boyfriends. Yes, mentally ill and suicidal people kill other people and most people committing massacres express mental disturbances at the very least, so why then, are guns so easily available to them? As for not being able to stop gun violence, handgun violence is completely preventable if we have a government that puts the safety of its citizens above the profit of industry. Kristina Woods, Cypress
Another fool willing to give away freedom for security....
You can reuse brass, and cast your own bullets. They’d better focus on taxing primers (or powder).
If it was just her freedom ......
Notice the full embrace of the Big Lie, gun ownership per se equals violence and death.
She forgot to include in her other-country stats the numbers from, say, Germany, 1939-1945. If she wants to inculpate the law for handgun deaths, then she needs to be consistent. How many people die of totalitiarian policies?
The gun culture - Ted Anthony asks why mass shootings continue to occur in America yet exhorts us to momentarily set aside the debate over guns, (“Mass shootings in America; With 47 people killed in the past month in mass shootings, isn’t it time to figure out, finally, why this is happening?” Page A5, Sunday). Sorry, can’t do it. Unfortunately the two are inextricably linked. Many other countries have had major economic downturns, presumably have the same proportion of disillusioned, disappointed, angry or mentally unstable individuals, yet don’t seem to experience the numbers of mass homicides as in the U.S. It does not take an intellectual giant to see that the difference is the deeply entrenched gun culture in this country, and especially the unbelievably easy access to firearms.
Amba Balu, Katy
It does not take an intellectual giant to read the Bill of Rights.....
Same here. My antigun, obama loving, liberal neighbor saw me loading up my M1919A6 one day and was amazed. I explained that by paying a $200.00 tax and waiting 5 months for approval, you can own a machine gun.
They said, "I know where my family and I am going when the end of the world comes", to which I replied:
"If that's the case, you'll be the first ones shot.".
I turned around, shut the truck door, smiled and walked off, leaving my neighbor with an open mouth.
GRIN..............................idiots...every last foolish one of them. I wouldn't waste a round to defend them.
The Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms, not specifically guns. Ammo should be classified as an armament, and thus protected.
Those are the grasshoppers. Ants have stingers and the WILL to use them.
These budding tyrants are despicable. Our Founding Fathers would have long ago dressed them in hot tar and feathers and ridden them out of town on a rail.
When I think of all the things I've done without...simple things that people piss away money on, really...to be as prepared as I hope I am, it really makes me wanna squash a grasshopper.
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