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Rather have my child die than use a gun?
Gun Talk Email | 2/25/2010 | Tom Gresham, email

Posted on 02/25/2010 11:00:02 PM PST by dcwusmc

RATHER HAVE MY CHILD DIE THAN USE A GUN?

If you were having trouble understanding anti-gun people, this will not help. A high school math teacher named Doug Van Gorder wrote a letter to the Boston Globe decrying the idea of having self-defense guns in schools. In part of his letter, he shows what can surely be described as one of the most telling views into the minds of gun banners.

"But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."

So, he views the use of a gun for self defense as a crime, and he would rather have his child die than see a good person (assuming this applies to the police, also) use a gun to save a life.

I simply have nothing to add to that.


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I cannot even begin to fathom the "mind" that could produce a statement like this. He is one evil, sick puppy!
1 posted on 02/25/2010 11:00:02 PM PST by dcwusmc
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PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 02/25/2010 11:02:35 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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I wonder if he was a student of little Mike Dukakis...

Bernard Shaw, the moderator of a debate, asked Dukakis, “Governor, if Kitty Dukakis [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?” Dukakis replied, “No, I don’t, and I think you know that I’ve opposed the death penalty during all of my life.”

Liberals...


3 posted on 02/25/2010 11:03:23 PM PST by jessduntno (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
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Never, ever try to understand the thinking of a liberal. It causes headaches, confusion, frustration and can take years off of your life, if done on a regular basis.
4 posted on 02/25/2010 11:04:33 PM PST by Michael.SF. (At least Hitler got the Olympics for Germany)
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The “Progressive” mindset is something I will never, ever fathom. Nor do I wish to even try. The level of evil there is beyond redemption, I think. I know God specializes in major miracles, but to redeem someone like this would take a MIND-BOGGLING miracle!


5 posted on 02/25/2010 11:07:27 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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Roger that!


6 posted on 02/25/2010 11:08:04 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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sooner “correct” than wise, it would seem.


7 posted on 02/25/2010 11:09:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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“But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.”

I tried and tried to think of a response to this logic. There is none, This person is mentally ill.

8 posted on 02/25/2010 11:12:31 PM PST by BigCinBigD (")
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Well then, I suppose “open carry” states and state constitutions forbidding infringement on guns-for-self-defense must make this guy foam and spit before his head explodes.


9 posted on 02/25/2010 11:13:24 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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“The “Progressive” mindset is something I will never, ever fathom. Nor do I wish to even try.”

I have a confession to make...I loathe the bstrds...and I NEVER talk with them. Once the ‘Don’t you just love (Obama, Reid, the new blah, blah)...I check out. At a BBQ some nitwit was going on and on about “my man Obama” and I just kept quiet. He asked...I said “I am probably the most conservative SOB you know” and it stopped the horsecrap...Bammy thinks they should “get all up in our faces” well, it’s OK with me...I’ve been doing it to THEM for years.


10 posted on 02/25/2010 11:14:19 PM PST by jessduntno (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
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Yeah, but I don’t even think the jackass means it. I would suspect he’s proud of himself now, but at crunch time...??? Though were it me, I would let him know, in no uncertain terms, that NO ONE packing a gun and in my employ would come to the defense of his son, but would happily defend anyone else in the vicinity. I wonder what he’d say to that.


11 posted on 02/25/2010 11:15:37 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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Better send the social workers to check on that kid.


12 posted on 02/25/2010 11:16:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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“The “Progressive” mindset is something I will never, ever fathom. Nor do I wish to even try. The level of evil there is beyond redemption, I think. I know God specializes in major miracles, but to redeem someone like this would take a MIND-BOGGLING miracle!...”

I’ve said it before, say it again: Liberalism is an insideous mental disease with no known cure. 40 years ago, these people were kept in state institutions known as “nut houses”. Now, they walk amongst us and are involved in govt. Eventually, we’re gonna have to deal with “the problem” because they’re gonna get us all killed. We cannot co-exist with mentally ill people like this. Absolutely insane....


13 posted on 02/25/2010 11:16:37 PM PST by lgjhn23
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Amen to that! I pity this guy’s children. They need a real man for a dad, not a wimp!


14 posted on 02/25/2010 11:18:12 PM PST by Enough_Deceit (Proud Mama of a US Marine and a US Soldier Bitterly Hanging On to Her Guns and Religion. Ooorahh!)
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I saw this blog posting from GranitGrok.com that tackled this letter (and another from the same author). It posits an interesting hypothesis about the author's motivations, and one that might be more likely...

Muddle-headed Progressive or closeted conservative teacher with a masterful sense of satire?

15 posted on 02/25/2010 11:18:59 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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All I can say is, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition”. This man’s neighbors should put up a sign in their yards stating, “This house is protected by Smith&Wesson. However, my neighbor doesn’t believe in gun ownership”.


16 posted on 02/25/2010 11:19:38 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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"But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."

No surprise here. These are the same people who advocate abortion.
They're all crazy.


17 posted on 02/25/2010 11:20:21 PM PST by Semper Mark (As graceful as a bulldozer and as subtle as a wrecking ball.)
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I prefer Progressives that won’t use guns to those who will.


18 posted on 02/25/2010 11:23:14 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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I say this in the spirit of Rush - using absurdity...

That...Liberal...is...Tucking...refarded.

period


19 posted on 02/25/2010 11:23:43 PM PST by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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It’s bad enough that people like him are deranged hoplophobes, but spreading his madness to others is depraved..


20 posted on 02/25/2010 11:24:35 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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