A good guy with a gun isn’t the answer (barf alert)

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 26 june 2016 | Angela Stroud

[rellimpank]

It has happened again: another mass shooting. For those of us who have spent a lot of time in places like the Pulse night club, this mass murder is particularly painful.

In a culture in which queer people are made to feel grateful for merely being tolerated, gay clubs are spaces where we are celebrated — safe havens that represent the opposite of repression and violence. To have that shattered by someone pledging allegiance to ISIS is an incomprehensible contradiction. It doesn't make any sense.

[rellimpank]

--the ususal--a ittle better disguised--

[Travis McGee]

[USNBandit]

Then I suppose these people will stop calling the police for help.

[Travis McGee]

[Don Corleone]

Then I suppose these people will stop calling the police for help.

Right! They will call Hillary, or Sanders or Obama or better yet, Hollywood!

[Gaffer]

...Well-trained people who are licensed to carry guns in public might sometimes be able to fight back and stop a violent crime — it's possible, though it rarely happens —

Liberal scholar anecdote for "the MSM doesn't report it, so it never happens...."

Liberal anti-gun claptrap whored out under the guise of academic thought and scholarship, IMO.

[LostPassword]

good guys should be willing to sacrifice a small measure of their freedom if it means fewer lives lost

I assume she'd be happy to sacrifice her 1st amendment rights to avoid reducing the national IQ any further. This article, and I imagine anything else she writes, will make some people stupider which will lead to more lives lost.

[The people have spoken]

In a culture in which queer people are made to feel grateful for merely being tolerated

That sure beats Muslim culture, where queer people are not tolerated.

[CitizenUSA]

The author is certainly entitled to an opinion, wrong though it may be. However, it really comes down to this: don’t like guns? Pass a constitutional amendment to amend or delete the 2nd Amendment. Otherwise, tough luck!

[BenLurkin]

For those of us who have spent a lot of time in places like the Pulse night club...

Stopped reading right there.

[Maceman]

In a culture in which queer people are made to feel grateful for merely being tolerated

What a drama queen. Gay people long ago passed the stage of merely being tolerated and now are in the position to outright dictate how straight people must behave and what they may or may not say under pain of legal penalty.

[VRW Conspirator]

In a culture in which queer people are made to feel grateful for merely being tolerated,...

Forget it Stroud. I refuse to be a passenger on this guilt trip. No one is "made to feel" anything. When homosexuality is on full display, literally, on TV with every other show, do not tell me who is "made to feel". It used to be "stay out of our bedroom" and now it is "bring the cameras into the bedroom".

[elcid1970]

The process to amend or repeal an existing Amendment is extremely difficult & was intended to be.

Now...is it true that the Bill of Rights, inasmuch as it does not confer rights, but merely recognizes such rights as being already inate to every human being, can therefore never be repealed?

[Bobalu]

See my tagline....

[Lisbon1940]

I wonder if the two daughters were packing.

[ronnie raygun]

The despicable powers that be cannot come to grips with the unalienable rights we as “individuals” enjoy thanks to our constitution. Like rust that never sleeps we must not fall asleep like we have done in the past

[BlueLancer]

"The most common victims are poor black men, many of whom are too young to legally own handguns or have concealed carry permits."

They must have done some over-editing ... to be truthful, the phrase must/should have been written as such:

The most common victims are poor black men, many of whom are too young to legally own handguns or have concealed carry permits, killed by other poor black men, most of whom are too young or with too large of a criminal record to legally own firearms.

[TYVets]

The anti gun liberal Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, owned by Gannett pushing the same old party line.

These people lie, day after day, year after year.

[SkyDancer]

Bloomie said cellphone is better than a gun.

[BlueLancer]

"In the end, good guys should be willing to sacrifice a small measure of their freedom if it means fewer lives lost. Isn't that what a good guy would do?"

And just what freedoms are you willing to give up if it means fewer lives lost? How about giving up your freedom of association and just stay home, out of sight, locked in your rooms?