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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Funny, I thought crazy people were banned from gun purchases, I guess all it takes to get around that is one dipshat sheriff and the inability to share medical records.
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a car, a truck, a van, a semi......
HAHAHa...that was funny....on a day of many unfunny things
Liberals focus on objects rather than protecting citizens from dangerous people because they don't want to admit that people can be (a) evil (b) deranged. In fact, they don't even want to admit to the existence of evil, since everybody's truth is just as good as everybody else's truth, and nobody ought to be punished. It's just easier to blame an object.
Well...it’s “No wonder” not “Know wonder”........At least I ain’t stoopid.....
Because of drunk drivers, I call for Richard Cohen’s car to be confiscated.
Apr 30, 2009 Five people have died and at least 13 are injured after a car plowed into a crowd in front of Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
This must be a joke.
It makes NO sense.
I’m guessing this guy just heard it wrong.
Everybody knows it was the wind...
Go ahead and try to take my gun Cohen.
Actually, same focusing by the TSA, where profiling people is not allowed, only focus on fluids, x-rays, pat-downs.
Thanks. That’s a very appropriate example.
“Are people actually expected to click on the site to read more of this tripe?”
lol my thoughts exactly what a bunch of crap. Here’s one worth clicking on if you haven’t read it yet.
The Shameful Left And Revisionism
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=176851
A knife wielding madman killed 7 people and injured 10 on a Japanese(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4089998.ece) street after running a number of them down with his vehicle.
Only a disingenuous asshole blames the tool and not the mind behind the controls.
Number one murder weapon in the history of mankind:
communism.
Number one liberator in the history of mankind:
free people carrying guns.
Obama told supporters today that a Republican victory in November would mean “hand to hand combat.”
The LA Times reported:
...AND IT’S GOING TO BE A GUN THAT PUTS A STOP TO IT!
Over the past two days the collective intelligence of the nation has dropped at lest twelve points.
What has happened to IBD; printing psychobabble like this?! Have they caved in to PC drivel now, too? That pistol could have been present at that location until hades freezes over, and not one person would have been killed or injured until that crackpot or someone like him picked it up and fired it.
This screwball’s logic is on a par with the idiot news reporters who write about an SUV running off the road and wreaking mayhem, as though the SUV did it on it’s own. The SUV.......or the Glock 9 is only as dangerous as the operator MAKES it! This Richard Cohen is ready for the looney bin himself!
Over eating results in millions of deaths per year....
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