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We are not helpless against gun violence
The Washington Post ^ | Monday, December 17, 4:44 PM | Michael Gerson

Posted on 12/17/2012 5:22:30 PM PST by An Old Man

The intercom had been switched on. “At first we heard a bunch of kids scream,” said a therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, “and then it was just quiet and all you could hear was the shooting.” It is the silence that seemed particularly haunting. The methodical silence of the killer. The unnatural silence of children. Even the apparent silence of a bystander God.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
I believe he is right ...
1 posted on 12/17/2012 5:22:33 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: An Old Man
First they officially throw God out of schools, and then when the society degenerates to the inevitable, they claim He was there, only doing nothing. I guess God is only welcome in schools to take their blame.
2 posted on 12/17/2012 5:26:02 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: An Old Man

We are not helpless against gun violence ... unless, of course, a government edict forces us into a disarmed helplessness.


3 posted on 12/17/2012 5:30:34 PM PST by Bob
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To: American in Israel

They always go looking for God once the shooting starts. I guess that does validate the old saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes.”


4 posted on 12/17/2012 5:34:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: An Old Man

“I believe he is right...”

I think he is wrong, and here is why.

Note the quote: “Measures such as banning assault weapons, restricting gun show and Internet sales, limiting magazine size and ammunition purchases, and requiring more reliable background checks are fully consistent with the Second Amendment, which is not the right to keep a military arsenal.”

The writer is an avowed Liberal, which really means a small ‘c’ commie. And, like all commies he is either unfamiliar with the Constitution or is deliberately lying (probably the latter).

Given the fact that when the American Revolution began, the US government had to rent cannon and war ships from individual citizens. It is not plausible the WsPo writer did not know that.

The Founders were very clear about their belief that the citizen had a “right and duty” to be armed.

Had the Liberals and commies in Connecticut not violated the Constitutional right of those three murdered school employees by banning their Second AMendment right to be armed, they would not have had to stand before the shooter like a Jew in the Third Reich.

Perhaps, but not likely, Connecticut will finally accept their responsibility to be armed.

My guess is that like all such cravenly cowards (which is what a Liberal really is, when it comes to a choice of Liberal Agenda or further risking of their children’s lives, they will have learned nothing - they will snivel and cry, whine and demand anti-gun laws.

AGENDA UBER ALLES! The cry of socialists!


5 posted on 12/17/2012 5:39:03 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: An Old Man
"I believe he is right ..."

I don't. He says, "Here, the status quo is currently so unbalanced that proposed adjustments don’t even come close to crossing constitutional lines. Measures such as banning assault weapons, restricting gun show and Internet sales, limiting magazine size and ammunition purchases, and requiring more reliable background checks are fully consistent with the Second Amendment, which is not the right to keep a military arsenal."

Citizens have a right to oppose tyrannical government policy, and being out-gunned by government doesn't make Liberty safe.

6 posted on 12/17/2012 5:39:14 PM PST by Ron C.
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“You wrote: Had the Liberals and commies in Connecticut not violated the Constitutional right of those three murdered school employees by banning their Second AMendment right to be armed, they would not have had to stand before the shooter like a Jew in the Third Reich.”

I answer: Who amoung us will stand up and have the law administered correctly?

Who is is that should be blamed when ever one of these tragic thing occures?

I stood my watch earlier in my life. Where have all the good guys gone?


7 posted on 12/17/2012 5:46:21 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: GladesGuru

“You wrote: Had the Liberals and commies in Connecticut not violated the Constitutional right of those three murdered school employees by banning their Second AMendment right to be armed, they would not have had to stand before the shooter like a Jew in the Third Reich.”

I answer: Who amoung us will stand up and have the law administered correctly?

Who is is that should be blamed when ever one of these tragic thing occures?

I stood my watch earlier in my life. Where have all the good guys gone?


8 posted on 12/17/2012 5:46:34 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: An Old Man

“We Are Not Helpless Against Gun Violence” wrote the staff gun grabber at the WaPo.

If I may be allowed a bit of liberty with a classic movie line - As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, “What you mean “we”, CommieBoy?”

We Conservatives are often armed, and getting more so daily.
Those murdered children were in a super Liberal state and the citizens had voted for commies/Liberals who passed anti-gun laws.

Karma is, indeed, a b*tch, and those parents of the murdered children chose to live in a Liberal state and send their children to a Pooblik Skrewel Collective which was loudly proclaimed to be a Gun Free Zone.

Evidently, the crazy and the evil don’t follow rules. Imagine that!


9 posted on 12/17/2012 5:53:50 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: An Old Man

Choir anthem from a number of years ago:

“He has no hands
No hands at all...
Save the hands of His children”

One of His children trained in the proper handling of a firearmwould have stopped this.


10 posted on 12/17/2012 6:00:40 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: An Old Man

In response to your insightful question in post 8, their parents sent them to Pooblik Skrewel Collectives infested with “Commies & Queers” as a member of the John’s Committee said long ago.

Then Liberation Theology” nutters and other queers in the seminaries perverted the Christian message as the academented perverted the curriculum. Generations later, the game is over as the problem is beyond the talking stage. With Muslims bent on violence as a way to force Sharia Law in America, and Aerica’s commies of all flavors hoping to Cloward-Piven America into bankruptcy as a path to acceptance of socialism, the future looks broke and violent.

I hope I am wrong, but I see little way out of the present situation.

Thank you for your service, and may the rest of your life be a peaceful one.


11 posted on 12/17/2012 6:02:50 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: An Old Man

Why don’t we train all able bodies adults to rush the shooter?


12 posted on 12/17/2012 6:05:20 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Just 16 percent of Americansbelieve a better economic future awaits their children when they grow up)
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No he's not. The rifle used in this crime was not banned by the federal or CT "assault weapons bans" and crimes such as these will not be averted by taking away from law abiding citizens the very means of their defense against such acts.

The current regime trafficked thousands of similar weapons to bloodthirsty gangs in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Chicago in the hope that public outcry over the body counts would make it easier to disarm American citizens.

Only a fool would be convinced by his clintonian tears in Newtown.

13 posted on 12/17/2012 6:20:30 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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Even the apparent silence of a bystander God.

May God forgive this man for his lack of understanding about free will and a fallen world. Just wondering if Mr. Gerson was OK with his party when they booed God at the Convention?

14 posted on 12/17/2012 6:20:30 PM PST by Faith
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If there was a General Officer anywhere within one thousand miles of DC who took his duty seriously he would arrest Zero and company right now. Unfortunately they are all more concerned with their pensions or girlfriends or what the hell ever than our country.


15 posted on 12/17/2012 6:41:15 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Why don’t we train all able bodies adults to rush the shooter?”

I think the principal and one other tried that. Lesson? Taking NOT EVEN a knife to a gun fight is a bad idea. Better to be armed.


16 posted on 12/17/2012 7:47:10 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: An Old Man

Look at the demographic. They’ll continue to have what firearms they desire. Most of the same demographic is also, not surprisingly, trying to violate the Second Amendment rights of most Americans with its policy putsches.

Aurora Shooter’s Father Supposed to Testify in LIBOR ?
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/forum/4052/aurora-shooters-father-supposed-testify-libor (TF Metals Report)

BREAKING NEWS: CT School Shooter Killer Link To LIBOR SCANDAL
http://newsworldwide.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/breaking-news-ct-school-shooter-killer-link-to-libor-scandal/

Libor scandal grows as the fathers of two mass murderers were to testify
http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify


17 posted on 12/17/2012 10:08:00 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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"Where have all the good guys gone?"

The good guys haven't been hired much for over 30 years. We've been replaced by others, whose families came with their culture from Europe more recently. They handed our manufacturing base to their foreign communist friends and have taken over all three branches of government.


18 posted on 12/17/2012 10:15:08 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: An Old Man

Sadly, what took place at the Sandy Hook School is one battle in the great spiritual war that is going on between Heaven and Hell, between God and His fighting angels, vs. Satan and his legions of demons.


19 posted on 12/18/2012 3:12:24 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Faith

Please see post number 19. Thank-you.


20 posted on 12/18/2012 3:15:28 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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