Posted on 02/20/2014 8:58:13 AM PST by rktman
Huffington Post writer Monica Bauer claims that she has “A New Argument for Gun Control,” but sounds like the same old worn-out lies to me.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
...ready access to guns is, in the terminology of Catholic dogma (but logical to anybody who can think) an occasion of sin. If you want to avoid committing a sin, stay away from the immediate temptation
No it is NOT logical. It is an example of projecting her own evil intentions on the rest of us. What is this "temptation" of which she speaks? The fact that SHE would apparently be constantly tempted to commit murder if she had a gun readily available to her does not mean everyone is so tempted.
I have NEVER felt the slightest temptation to shoot someone simply because I was carrying a gun. Even on the two occasions in my life when I found it necessary to brandish a firearm in order to assure my self-protection (neither of which ultimately involved the necessity of firing the weapon) I STILL felt no temptation, nor inclination, to shoot the perpetrator unless it became absolutely necessary.
Are you 100% certain of this?
Many of us have never actually seen or met Jim Robinson; but we are regularly made aware he exists by the small gifts he leaves lying around FR for us.
You have to admit, that is VERY gnome-like behavior.
;-)
No, it should not. And, in fact, it does not, and CAN not have such a right -- because government does not HAVE "rights", government has POWERS.
But, it shouldn't have the POWER to do it either - and, by a strict reading of our Constitution, it does NOT have that power.
And he does not have a (g)nome de plume.
You can find him Here until the task at hand is completed.
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