Anti-Firearms Letter From Berkeley

Email from Berkeley | March 18th, 2004 | "C_____ J. W______" <c_____@berkeley.edu>

[Travis McGee]

What can happen only after "Gun Control" is fully instituted:

[Shut up and take it]

I salute your effort to enlighten a Berkley liberal. Too bad these pointy-headed, pseudo intellectuals don't care about History beyond revising it!

[MrJingles]

It would be great if all Americans used muskets. The world would be a safer place for all of us to live.

All right; the day the gang-bangers of the world (and for that matter, the ATF,) lay down their TEK-9's and MP5's, I'll go buy a Brown Bess.

Until then, I'll stick with the fixed ammunition, thank you...

[Travis McGee]

Actually the writer is a woman, based on her full first name.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He's not a vet, he is too stupid to be a vet. He is the email version of a Rush Limbaugh seminar caller making false claims to try to lend validity to his lies.

[Puppage]

I have had children and adult family members killed by guns

How many were killed by law abiding citizens there Whimpy, hmmm?

[Travis McGee]

Note the family members were simply killed by "guns."

As if the "guns" just hopped down the street by themselves, firing at people with malicious metal minds.

[45Auto]

Your reply is well-reasoned, well-written, based on historical fact, and logical to the core; therefore, I don't expect the illiterate who wrote to you to understand one word of it. Liberalism is a mental disorder and socialism is a disease - so much so that those who embrace them have no basis on which to grasp truth or reality - they "feel" a certain way, so, to them, that must be the only true reality. I know liberals who cling to the "belief" (much of it fueled by daily drug use) that, "If I thought of it, it must be true." Such people are rarely able to be rehabilitated - they are fit only to wear the chains of slavery (which they themselves have forged) unto the third generation.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I bumped into a similar argument a few day ago. It appears that some more critters are crawling out from under the rocks as spring approaches.

One of the ideas behind the concept of a militia was that they could be armed with (and own) the best current military weapons that contemporary technology could provide (at that time muskets and swords). So, I consider that a private individual should be able to own anything that he could buy (and responsibly) use and maintain.

[Shooter 2.5]

I live in the great land of Kansas where we can carry concealed weapons now.

When exactly did Kansas pass a CCW law? The last time I checked a Bill was introduced and it's going to be vetoed by your governor.

[N. Theknow]

they gave American citizens the right to bare arms

Thank you Thomas Jefferson for passing an ammendment allowing me to wear golf shirts and women to wear tank tops, tube tops and halter tops.

[harpseal]

Who knows maybe just maybe she might learn something but I do doubt it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I think your polite response was wasted, but it shows class all the same.

BTW... What would you recommend as a good "boat gun" for someone sailing in foreign waters? Fellow in my office wants a suggestion and I told him I knew just the guy to ask.

[Myrddin]

I was enjoying my right to bare arms just yesterday. It was 68 degrees outside. Nice after a long, cold winter.

[Shooter 2.5]

Mossberg 500 Marine.

[an amused spectator]

I don't think the "foundering fathers" had satellite communications or the Internet or high-speed printing presses on their minds when they gave American citizens the right to freedom of the press.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting this retort.

These liberal boobs & boobettes couldn't reason their way out of a wet paper bag. "Oh, but the First Amendment is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT amendment."

[BadAndy]

Bezerkly was a top notch school that used to require top grades and high SAT scores. Now they accept students who cannot properly use "sale" and "sell" in a sentence. Ain't affirmative action great?

[Centurion2000]

As if the "guns" just hopped down the street by themselves, firing at people with malicious metal minds.

I hate it when that happens

[Sender]

Only someone from the VPC, Brady Center or Berkeley would put forth the ridiculous idea that terrorists in Afghanistan, who can buy all the full-auto weaponry they could ever need dirt cheap from vast local reserves, would actually travel 10,000 miles to buy a semi-auto, thumbhole-stocked, bare-muzzled, grossly-overpriced AK-lookalike copy at a US gun show. Please.

[brooklin]

At the time the 2nd amendment was written, the average citizen could have the same weapon as the army, maybe better if they could afford it.