Posted on 09/17/2013 11:02:05 AM PDT by neverdem
...would cease to exist.
Not a possibility in the real world.
The Left, if it’s honest?
That’s a mighty big IF!
Is sort of like saying that if my uncle had been plumbed a little differently, he might have been my Auntie.
is like "The right, if it had balls..."
If only...
It would, of course, be impractical and unbecoming for a free nation to respond to this worrying reality by preemptively punishing the whole population.
Impractical, unseemly, and even unconstitutional? That's Marxism in the famous "nut shell," isn't it?
“Gun control”. The Left is not interested in gun “control”. What they really want is a gun BAN. They just know it’s not PC for them to say that out loud, yet.....
Things we can achieve with laws:
That's a start. I don't suppose I have to go on about how government policies abet broken families that raise young monsters like this petulant thug.
In short, typically and once again, the left jumps in to supposedly "fix" a problem that was at least abetted by their own policies. The "fixes" they demand will do nothing to prevent a future recurrence, indeed the contrary. And said "fix" will only advance their interest in running a ruthless and murderous police state.
FUDF
Learn how to effectively MANAGE THE MENTALLY ILL!!!!!
This is the perfect job for a bunch of SOCIALIST CONTROL FREAKS!
Apply your vast resevoirs of self-promoted compassion, and develop mental health facilities that treat the patients like people and not animals.
Hey... when you get a spare couple-o-minutes, you should read this. It’s actually pretty good. :-)
The left, if it’s honest.......
And hell’s not going to freeze over either...
Regardless of whether through the efforts of a “ruler” or a “ruling class”, when the rights of the citizenry are abused or denied by either, a change in leadership is mandated. We are on the road to ruin and sage advice is a rarity as well as the driver heeding a suggested direction change. There are few guardrails remaining and I fear we will all be careening over the edge. It may be time for a “Chinese fire drill”.
It’s an outstanding article.
Already sent it out to my Gunny list... danke!!!
Enforce the laws that are already on the books!
Most conservatives do not appreciate the childlike faith liberals have in government's ability to simply dictate behavior, nor their panic when told "it won't work." "But it's all we can do," runs the reply. It isn't, of course, nor is it obvious that doing anything at all will not make the problem worse.
I absolutely understand the desire to "do something", but it does not follow that throwing gasoline on a fire in an attempt to put it out will improve the situation, good intentions despite, and the sulky rejoinder, "well, at least I did something" sounds as childish as it really is.
But an open call for an outright gun ban would be an improvement in one area - it would at least be honest. Most of the chronic mendacity associated with gun control movement is simply its members' fear of stating publicly what their intention really is. And so they lie: "we're only after ammunition that's environmentally safe, not a gun ban," or "we only want to take those dangerous 30-round high-capacity ammo clips out of circulation - oh, did I say 30? I meant 20. Oh, did I say 20? I meant 10. Oh, did I say 10? I meant 7." And so it goes. It has been that way so long that it is no longer an effort to tell that they're lying through their teeth, every time.
That absolutely poisons reasonable debate on the topic. When a concerned conservative states that he or she thinks that some sort of flag should be set on the mentally incompetent, the response is always, 100% of the time, "oh, good, now how do we leverage this to include everybody?" And so we don't, and if you can't talk about a problem, solving it gets much more difficult.
Unfortunately, depends on who gets to define the term "mentally ill". The next thing the gun-grabbers will try to do is get the psychiatrists to broaden the term to mean anyone who wants to own a gun.
Why would you let anybody know you have a gun?
As long as we retain our 2A Rights, we can fight such outrages from among the shrinks.
We’d all better get busy on ANOTHER front as well!
This is ESPECIALLY for those of you who think I’ve been unduly tough on government schools!
Folks, with some exceptions, they have increasingly morphed into GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION CENTERS, designed to train generations of misinformed, low and no information dummies.
If this subversion of the Founders’ vision for this country is not halted — and soon — what sense will it make to save America, the place on the globe, if America, THE IDEA, is eventually murdered as a result of OUR failure to defend that idea.
Over the years, I’ve had my OWN run-ins with the bureaucrats and fellow “citizens” on the dark side who believe that freedom is too dangerous to be allowed to any but them and their elitist associates.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community’.”
Adolph Hitler Speech November 1933.
High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/high-school-ap-history-book-rewrites-2nd-amendment_092013/print/
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