Posted on 03/28/2014 4:39:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
An anti-gun liberal talk-show host apparently wants to shoot NRA board members. But, before we talk about the precarious possibility of some imbalanced leftist abusing Second Amendment rights (that he fights against) we should get some background information. Georgia has recently passed some legislation (awaiting approval from the Governor) that would expand the state’s Concealed Carry law.
In short, the bill would broaden the locations that lawful concealed carry is permitted. Acceptable locations would be expanded to include churches, schools (Adam Lanza would not only be unwelcome – he’d probably be shot), airports (federal restrictions would still apply), bars (no drinking while carrying, “duh”), and some government offices. The Left has dubbed the bill as the “guns everywhere” bill… Which I really don’t see as a pejorative. In fact, I’m kinda jealous that people in Georgia will have the protected right to defend their life anywhere they go. I’m currently at the mercy of California implants calling themselves “Denver residents” (ugh).
Guns everywhere? (What are the home values like in Georgia?) We should rename this bill to the “Michael Schaus is welcome in Georgia” bill of 2014. The Left’s main objection appears to be that concealed-carry-permit-holders will be allowed in establishments that serve liquor. But, c’mon… We let people leave bars without first confiscating their car keys. It’s still going to be illegal to carry while drinking (again: “duh”), and being intoxicated with a firearm will continue to be a serious crime (not to mention that such actions are the definition of irresponsibility.)
I mean, really: If a designated driver feels like carrying a gun (because they will be sober, and responsible for everyone’s safety), why should they be forced to stand outside smoking cigarettes while their friends are enjoying one of the few perks of adulthood? I know I’d feel safer with a sober concealed carry holder around. In fact, I never go drinking without a designated driver and a concealed carry permit holder. After all: The point is to be safe.
But… Mike Malloy has helped me accept an moderate degree of gun control. And here’s why (hat-tip to NewsBusters):
This organization founded by Gabrielle Giffords, you remember her, the former Arizona congresswoman that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck suggested should be murdered, the one who was critically wounded in a mass shooting in 2011, she calls it 'the most extreme gun bill in America.'
Whoa… Palin and Beck never asked for anyone to murder Giffords. Palin ran an ad “targeting” Democrats… Malloy, by the way, seems to skim over similar rhetoric employed by the Left. And, allowing law-abiding citizens the right to responsibly carry tools of self-defense isn’t exactly “extreme” when compared to the state of Connecticut confiscating people’s legally purchased firearms. But he went on:
The NRA, which they're behind this of course, they want guns everywhere. Jesus Christ! I would like to invite one of the NRA board members, and I'll be armed, let's just get this over with, OK? Come on down to Georgia and I'll be packing heat and you be packing heat or whether you want to or not, I don't give a damn, it's up to you…
I thought dueling went out of style… It turns out that our Liberal talk-show host, however, has no problem inviting political opponents to engage in dangerous illegal behavior. But, he soon jumped the gun-control shark:
And you come, meet me someplace, and all of a sudden, see, we have stand your ground here, and all of a sudden I'm going to feel real &*%$#@ threatened by you! And I will shoot you! If I feel threatened. The law says I can! Ha ha ha!
So… I think it’s pretty obvious: We should do away with concealed carry – for Liberals. After all, in Malloy’s hypothetical, the armed (or unarmed) NRA member is acting like a responsible, non-threatening, member of society. They are minding their own business. In fact, they carry a firearm as protection against the possibility that some psycho will randomly direct unwarranted violence in their general direction.
And then there’s Malloy… Who unmercifully is willing to do them harm. I don’t really see the NRA guy as the problem in this equation. (And what if the NRA board member was a black guy wearing a hoodie?) It seems to me, that the bigger problem is someone (ahem*Malloy*ahem) who feels justified in shooting someone else because they disagree on politics – which, by the way, is not covered under Georgia’s “stand your ground” law. (Last time I checked, feeling threatened by someone’s Constitutional right is not justification for murder.)
A concealed weapon is a hedge against the very violence that Malloy mockingly advocates. Heck, it’s a hedge against Giffords’ shooter, the Aurora movie theatre monster, and even Adam Lanza… Only a liberal with unbridled hate for dissenting opinions would see it as a tool for intimidation and violence.
So… Let’s pass a gun control law (which is a sentence I never imagined myself typing): “If you think guns are the incarnation or manifestation of unrepentant violence, you’re not allowed to purchase one.” Everyone else, on the other hand, should be able to carry everywhere they want (because, as it turns out, some of those Malloy-style psychopaths may not abide by the newly proposed SchausGunControlAct).
PS: I didn’t address the concept of guns in church… But that’s because I think it’s self-explanatory: My life is a gift from God. I’d like to think that he would approve of me defending it.
anti-self defense is pro-murder
If this keeps up it will become a must carry fashion statement. Will Louis-vitton make a carry case?
Legislature of Idaho, an open and concealed carry state, recently authorized possession of personal firearms by students and faculty on the Univ. of Idaho campus. Moscow libs are fearful, but not making a great fuss. Administrators now conferring on how to manage this new scenario. Law greatly restricts places on campus that students may carry or keep a gun; not in any dorm or residence hall room, for example.
Malloy has been using violent provoking language for YEARS against the right. Why is he so untouchable? I get that Bill Maher is on cable, and there are enough like minded left wing haters to pay for that program. Is that also the case with this Malloy character? I’m not in the geographic area that gets his show, thank goodness. If I were in his area, I would apply pressure to his advertisers to stop supporting his program. Then again, maybe his audience is so very tiny, that this rabid little Chihuahua can yip and yap his little head off and nobody would take notice.
I’d take a ‘Coach’. ‘LV’ is a little too ‘hood’ ATM. XD
The Founders were concerned that the people retain the power to prevent or correct any tyranny from developing. But self- defense was always understood as both a right and a duty. Idiots making threats like this guy are therefore sufficient reason for the right to keep and bear arms. ( what a jerk!)
Typical...
Well, liberals and conservatives are both suggesting thorazine and forced confinement (already) for the other side. Mike Savage (that's Doctor Savage to detractors) insists that a lot, if not all, liberals are clinical mental cases as it is.
And since Obama fans are determined to introduce Soviet medicine into the U.S., let's remember what Adrei Sakharov and Roy Medvedev told us about the Soviet government's use of psychiatric confinement and forcible medication to suppress political dissidents in the 1980's.
Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless.
I should start a line of designer handguns with custom carry cases.
I went to school in Moscow at the U of I back in the early 80’s. Living in a dorm. This fellow resident brought his rifle back from home visit to do some local deer hunting the following weekend. On a particularly nice fall day there were a couple of girls “playing” tennis on the court across the street. Scantily clad, they were making sure they had our attention. Anyways this guy gets out his rifle to get a better look with the scope and one of these girls spots him. SNIPER!!! she screams and all heck breaks loose.
The cops never found the gun, or the sniper, and we never saw those girls again. Dagnubbit.
In part liberals want real Americans disarmed so the government will have absolute power and absolute control over our lives. In part, liberals want decent people disarmed because liberals are not decent - they are inherently violent and lack self-control, so they assume conservatives have the same weakness. Personally, I think our weakness is too much self-control (combined with always trying to apply a charitable though less plausible explanation short of pure evil to liberal policies).
Sounds like a terrorist threat to me!
It’s right wing types paying for cable that keeps liberalism alive. Simple numbers. Take right wing cash away and cable collapses. It cannot survive in present form with half its subscriber income. No one seems able to dispute it so no legit excuse exists.
We could destroy libs in a couple billing periods. Nothing could be easier...Of course people love reality TV and football more than their country so cable/dish gets that 100 bucks a month. And boy can people make all sorts of excuses about it.
No. Under this regime, "terrorists" are prior military, Christians, conservatives, and other bitter people who cling to God and to guns instead of putting their trust in the democrats and in communism. I'm sure that was a rational concern, at most expressed artlessly. Some animals are more equal than others seems to be FedGov's motto these days.
Agreed 100%. Every purchase I make is political - from the GM car I will never again buy because of their corrupt bankruptcy, to the cable I don't pay for, to the liberal movies I don't see in the theater, and the firearms and ammo I buy that are manufactured outside the liberal states.
Not hard to do is it? Takes some adjustments but it’s easy. Coming up on 15 years TV free.
No one ever died for lack of TV. And TV is the main threat to America as the mouthpiece of liberalism. Now of course, there are things we have no choice in. But TV/Cable is very much a choice.
Classic.
Is this an oxymoron? I vote just moron. I would have more respect for this jackass, if he brought a knife to a gun fight.
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