Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

It is time to talk about guns (oath breaker barf alert)
Esquire ^ | 03 DEC 13 | LTC Robert Bateman

Posted on 12/03/2013 5:58:06 PM PST by DCBryan1

People, it is time to talk about guns.

My entire adult life has been dedicated to the deliberate management of violence. There are no two ways around that fact. My job, at the end of the day, is about killing. I orchestrate violence.

I am not proud of that fact. Indeed, I am often torn-up by the realization that not only is this my job, but that I am really good at my job. But my profession is about directed violence on behalf of the nation. What is happening inside our country is random and disgusting, and living here in England I am at a complete loss as to how to explain this at all. In 2011 the number of gun deaths in the United States was 10.3 per 100,000 citizens. In 2010 that statistic in the UK was 0.25. And do not even try to tell me that the British are not as inclined to violence or that their culture is so different from ours that this difference makes sense. I can say nothing when my British officers ask me about these things, because it is the law.

And for that, frankly speaking, I am embarrassed by our Supreme Court.

Read more: Bateman On Guns - It's Time We Talk About Guns - Esquire Follow us: @Esquiremag on Twitter | Esquire on Facebook Visit us at Esquire.com

(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cw2; feedthehogs; getarope; gungrabber; molonlabe; oathbreaker; rkba; robertbateman; traitor; tyranny
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-124 next last
To: DCBryan1

I could tell from his first sentence and paragraph that he’s a douchebag.
This article will go in his file and he will get a gold star, maybe even a citation. He’s still a douchbagge.
Bring it on, lightbird.


41 posted on 12/03/2013 6:24:32 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill

Perhaps he needs an express pass


42 posted on 12/03/2013 6:25:28 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1
He can go to hell.

I know these commies are going to put the hammer down on us in the waning months of Obama's _residency. They have to. They are running out of time.

When they go hot, it ain't gonna go good for me, my family, or my FRiends. But we cannot be cowards when the time comes.

43 posted on 12/03/2013 6:25:29 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: backwoods-engineer

This guy to the “feed the hogs list” when the ballon goes up!


44 posted on 12/03/2013 6:31:47 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

I hope we got a few Henry Bowmans left.


45 posted on 12/03/2013 6:36:05 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

He takes Scalia to task for ignoring the National Guard. Yet, he proposes all manner of proposals that ignore “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

About what you’d expect from a Constitution-hating, oath-breaking POS LIB.


46 posted on 12/03/2013 6:39:57 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

Hey you commie, gun grabbing, freak. The VAST MAJORITY of gun violence in America is GANG RELATED. Do you hear me NOW? Isolated incidents occur. They always have. They always will. But how bout a strong anti-gang effort? Too racist for you, huh? Yeah, race is the shield for all commie take overs in this country. What about putting mentally ill in institutions where they can be helped and not left to roam the streets homeless? I’m so sick of commies that disguise themselves. Yeah even those in the military. If you walk like a commie and quack like a commie you must be one. The only way you get my gun is when I beat you with it after running out of ammunition.


47 posted on 12/03/2013 6:41:42 PM PST by DWar ("The ultimate destination of Political Correctness is totalitarianism.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigersEye
Sadly, there may well be a time coming too soon in which our fellow Americans, not having prepared to feed themselves and shelter themselves, will gladly trade their guns for food and especially trade YOUR GUnS for their food and government ‘protections’.

The evil that now rules in Amerika through devils like Pelosi, Reid, Obama and co., and willing enablers like McCain, Mc Connel, and Graham are more than willing to destroy the Republic and 100s of millions world wide in order to bring about their new world order rule.

I sense a very bloody and violent future for this land. If we do not soon educate our young as to the nature of the democrip’s evil, we will have those same young people reporting the locations of guns held by citizens. It happened in Germany, partially because the parents did not teach their children to discern good and evil. Our children are mostly the products of government designed and fed schooling.

48 posted on 12/03/2013 6:41:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

Tell him what you think! R_Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com


49 posted on 12/03/2013 6:44:37 PM PST by Vasilli22
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

R_Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com.


50 posted on 12/03/2013 6:47:17 PM PST by Vasilli22
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

I ignore control freaks who dictate what guns we can own, and what guns we can pass onto our children, as if anyone is asking. This crackpot mistakes regimented life in the military for constitutional life out in the free world, and he mistakes a deer rifle for a self defense weapon, for those times when gang bangers need to be shot multiple times to make them stop. Besides, when the family is sleeping late at night, it is a little crazy to start shooting at intruders with a high powered rifle. Sheetrock walls don’t make good backstops. I prefer to limit my killing to the target(s).


51 posted on 12/03/2013 6:48:07 PM PST by pallis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

Brown Shirt ba$tard.


52 posted on 12/03/2013 6:50:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TADSLOS
Your case in point. Two LTCs (youtube vid) who are very very pro gun.
53 posted on 12/03/2013 6:52:18 PM PST by Red Steel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: DWar

Yours is my favorite post of this thread.

I’m glad you mentioned gangs.

The 10.3 per 100,000 that this $hit$tain Bateman mentions includes suicides as well as gang bangers killing other gang bangers. When I lived in California in the 1970’s and 1980’s, the LAPD called gang banger deaths NHI (No Human Involved).

I hope this scumbag Bateman stays in England. It would serve the British right for sending us Piers Morgan and Martin Bashir.


54 posted on 12/03/2013 6:56:01 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1
feh...

55 posted on 12/03/2013 6:58:42 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1; driftdiver; Travis McGee; Joe Brower; Squantos; HiJinx; ASA Vet; Progov; Seizethecarp; ...

As a former 35C myself, I recall the patriotic fervor of my year-group and generation. Gun clubs and fun shoots were the rule of the day.

With our next-generation touchy-feelgood PC officer corpse, this kind of diatribe is not unexpected.

At least the fool’s an expat now.


56 posted on 12/03/2013 7:06:45 PM PST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DCBryan1

LTC Robert Bateman seems to thrive on being annoying and obnoxious. And, to his credit, I suppose, he is insulting, demeaning and arrogant to just about everyone on the political spectrum.

Looking at the sum of his reasonably accessible writings on the Internet, he comes across much like a newspaper “sob sister”, an editorialist who thrives on annoying people, and counts his successes by the number of irate letters he beckons.

That is, this weeks’ column is on “Nun beating, and why we should do it”, and next week is “How to Pick Fights in Biker Bars.”

Yes, he has an opinion on gun control. Opinions are like a certain piece of the anatomy. Everybody has one.


57 posted on 12/03/2013 7:10:51 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DWar
I'd like to join Commander Riker in applauding your most excellent post:


58 posted on 12/03/2013 7:20:41 PM PST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Vasilli22

Here is my e-mail to the LtCol.

Sir,
I recently had the extreme displeasure of coming across and reading your ‘It’s Time to Talk About Guns” article. I could not believe that the words in the article actually came from an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States. Was it easy for you to crap on your oath? The last time I checked, the 2nd Ammendment said nothing about the right to hunt. It says “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. Last I checked your oath and mine said “I will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same”. So when did you decide that your sworn oath didn’t mean anything? I thank God I never had a commander like you.

If you truely feel that free men should not be armed, I suggest that you be the first man in the stack as you attempt to breech my door when they attempt to come for my weapons. This old Marine will not go down easy. You see sir, I believe in my oath, I believe in our Constitution, I have been highly trained by the best there is and I am highly motivated. If you feel froggy, all you have to do is jump. I dread the day when you and your progressive idiots overplay your hand, but be assured I will honor my oath and I will defend my God given right to the death.

MOLON LABE

GySgt Sean R Castillo
USMC Retired


59 posted on 12/03/2013 7:29:02 PM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: IronJack

I ain’t touching that!!!

hehe


60 posted on 12/03/2013 7:45:48 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-124 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson