Posted on 01/10/2011 5:41:19 PM PST by Kaslin
I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The answer he wanted was the three ships with which eventually someone would have discovered the New World and without which everyone would have remained in Spain.
It is no different with the tragedy in Tucson. Hate speech and madness were part of the mix, but it was the gun and our insane gun laws that resulted in six deaths. Until we come to grips with that, as a nation, we remain armed and dangerous.
The American culture, the American gun culture, insists on a constitutional right to bear arms — even concealed weapons such as a Glock 19 semiautomatic handgun capable of doing immense damage. A 22-year-old man, already hallucinating on the Internet, making no sense in his classes and booted from school for his strange ways and probably unable to show up with a friend, can buy such a killing device almost on the spot. If he is crazy, then so are we.
No real questions are asked of him. Do you think the government controls grammar and grammar controls the universe? Have you been babbling in class and can you hold a job? Why do you want this gun? Do you, perhaps, want to kill someone? Do you want a Glock 19 because it was one of two handguns used in the Virginia Tech massacre (32 killed, one suicide), and would you please state the name of your intended victim on the form provided? Thanks. This will just take a moment to process.
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Horseshit.
Where’s the projectile vomit alert?
“Hate speech and madness were part of the mix”
Ultra leftist. Ignore.
Ah shad up, elitist Dick Cohen! If I want to buy a Glock to defend myself, that’s none of your damned business! DON’T TREAD ON ME!!!
And MS Word made this column stupid.
/johnny
“A 22-year-old man, already hallucinating on the Internet, making no sense in his classes and booted from school for his strange ways and probably unable to show up with a friend, can buy such a killing device almost on the spot.”
He also could have used a rock, a knife, a club or a broken bottle and still maybe got him at least a couple. Cripes..
Are people actually expected to click on the site to read more of this tripe?
This dip5h1+ can’t even get his own analogy right ... the gun didn’t kill, the bullets killed.
So if you had given the three ships to the Indians would they have sailed them to Europe?
IBD got it wrong.
And spoons make Rosie O’Donnell fat.
Yup, if he’d only been banned from buying the gun, this would never have happened. If carrying openly or concealed were banned, this would never have happened./s
I’m sure getting sick of this crap.
Only if they had run out of curry.
>He also could have used a rock, a knife, a club or a broken bottle and still maybe got him at least a couple. Cripes..
Hell, he probably could have cleaned house had he rented a really big SUV and ran it into the crowd. Lots more energy in cars than bullets.
Chemistry and physics did.
WHAT an IDIOT...like a BOAT could find itself somewhere without a human.....I need to go puke.
Know wonder Cohen is a moron........
It is no different with the tragedy in Tucson. Hate speech and madness were part of the mix, but it was the gun and our insane gun laws that resulted in six deaths. Until we come to grips with that, as a nation, we remain armed and dangerous.
That explains so much...
Dear Richard Cohen (and your idiot college professor),
It was the ingenuity of man that allowed him to design ships to sail on the seas. It was the ingenuity of man that allowed him to dream of distant shores. It was the courage of man that allowed him to sail beyond the horizon and his ingenuity, again, to make the trip a success.
The attack in Tucson was the result of insanity. Considering it is insanity that makes liberals praise or condemn the creations of man rather than man himself... look no further than yourselves and your own insane ideology for the answers to the problems with America.
It the difference in velocities between the bullets and the people that did the killing.
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