I’m surprised that it took this long for liberal Gun Grabbers to come up with this duckspeak. First, we have Gawker saying that police unions should support the massive disarming of people who have committed no crime, so, violate their 2nd and 4th Amendment rights. Then
If You Don’t Support Gun Control, Then You Don’t Support the Police
Beyond the headline, there’s very little content to support that notion. Paragraph after paragraph after paragraph is simply the typical gun grabber point of view. Blaming the NRA, trying to blow away the good guy with a gun idea (you should check This ain’t Hell, but I can see it from here most days, and see the Feel Good Stories, like Monday), all the typical talking points. We finally get to the end
What False Dichotomists fail to realize is that, true to their label, they have set up a false dichotomy between “bad guys†and guns. It doesn’t have to be one or the other; both can be – and are – part of the problem. The fact of the matter is that guns are designed to kill much more easily, rapidly, and efficiently than most other objects – including trucks. So it stands to reason – and the data in different states indicate – that certain gun-control measures are the most effective cure for this part of the problem. These measures include expanding background checks, requiring rigorous background checks for all online and gun-show purchases, requiring a license for gun ownership, renewing the federal ban on assault rifles (both automatic and semi-automatic), repealing these ridiculously permissive open-carry and concealed-carry laws, and raising taxes significantly on bullets (“bullet controlâ€).
In other words, enact heavy restrictions on the 2nd Amendment in order to disarm law abiding citizens, leaving them at the mercy of people who don’t follow the law. This would also violate due process, since people are having their rights stripped without even being accused of a crime.
The NRA and their Republican supporters’ enthusiastic encouragement and passage of lax gun laws and policies over the past 30 years have sadly enabled hundreds of thousands of senseless, needless deaths and injuries. It’s high time, then, that they atone for their destructive influence by renouncing the same old unproductive, callous platitudes and canards and finally getting on board with a sensible multi-pronged approach that includes gun control. In the end, this is really the only way to honor the Baton Rouge and Dallas police officers who were viciously murdered – and to better protect all of the police officers who are still serving.
Got that? Massive Constitutional violations of law abiding citizen’s Rights is the only way to honor officers slain by criminals, many of whom have been emboldened by the very Black Lives Matter rhetoric emanating from the same gun grabbers.
One of the things that
pisses me offannoys me about the hospital at which my wife works is that no vacations may be scheduled between the start of Thanksgiving week and the second of January. This is a big hospital, employing thousands of people.Now, I understand that the hospital has to be staffed on Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s Eve and Day; illness and injury don’t take time off for the holidays.
But then I started thinking more about it: why must that include the first two weeks of December as well? After all, the hospital has to account for thousands of weeks of vacation throughout the year, and the policy reduces the available weeks for vacation from 52 to 45. That means that more people have to be hired, because there will be more people out on vacation on any given day.
And then I realized: the two weeks following Thanksgiving are (rifle) hunting season, and someone in upper management is trying to keep employees from being able to go deer hunting.
That is the way of the left: if it is something that they don’t do, that they don’t enjoy, hunting being one of those things, why they are perfectly willing to try to use the force of law to keep other people from doing it! The left don’t hunt — and are too pussified to be able to survive out in the woods anyway — so they don’t think that there’s any legitimate reason for those people who do hunt to own firearms.
In the 9 months I lived in Alaska in 1986 I slept inside a building 3 nights
I hunt but now only upland birds
I have spent a hell of a lot more nights outside than you have
That is the way of the right: if it is something they don’t do, that they don’t enjoy, sex being one of those things, why they are perfectly willing to use the force of law to keep other people from doing it!!!!
Conspiratorial thinking is diagnostic for the right-wing authoritarian follower “mind”.
At sounds as if you are losing yours. Pity.
Many of my “leftist” friends and my sons deer hunt here in Missouri every year. Regular gun season, bow season, muzzleloader season and the occasional special hunt (we’ve applied for a special hunt this December).
No question that the police feel much safer with strange men walking around carrying semi-auto assault weapons.
Who’s to protect us from the ISIS invasion if not drunk neighbor Joe walking the streets with his Glock 40 and AR-15, on the lookout for n*****s and muzzies who don’t belong. It’s in the 2nd Amendment, goddam it!
The people who killed the police were law abiding citizens right up to when they became killers
I don’t see how you can justify them owning guns
Guns are very dangerous as is dynamite which I also believe should be not available to anyone not a felon
In the immortal words uttered by Johnny Cochran to Chris Darden during the O.J. trial,
“Nigga please!”
The problem is guns nay it too easy to kill
The guy who shot the police in Barton Touge?
He too thought he was striking a blow against a tyrannical government, which is the same reason Teach says we need guns
Well I don’t think we need them for that reason, I think that the Baton Rouge shooter and Teach are both wrong
I encourage hunting. But think that many of the current regs should be changed
We are stressing trophy hunting always trying to remove the biggest and best bucks from the herd
We are the only predator in nature that chooses to harvest the biggest and best
John gets silly:
Oh? Where have you seen me say that we should make homosexual activity illegal? I have said that homosexual relationships do not constitute a marriage, but you don’t have to be married to copulate.
Jeffrey wrote:
Can I prove it? No. But when I see a policy that makes no sense, and one which actually makes things more difficult for management, I start to wonder why management would so something like that. Nothing else really makes any sense.
John wrote:
If they had no criminal records, it isn’t that someone has to ‘justify” them owning firearms, it is that they cannot be barred from owning firearms.
Hey fools-if you don’t like the 2nd Amendment, then you can go through the process and amend the Constitution. But you knew that
15 yr old shot and killed for accidental home invasion
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/funeral_services_announced_for.html
A 13 yr old girl was killed by a car while crossing the street.
Hoagie,
In the US several hundred people, including infants, toddlers and children die each year from being accidentally shot. It’s just the price we pay for our freedoms. In this case the frightened little man shot through the door without knowing who was pounding on it. Fear is dangerous, especially involving an armed man.
Cars can be involved in accidental deaths (thousands a year) but cars and trucks are designed for another purpose: transportation.
I’m not advocating eliminating firearms, but to illustrate the logical bankruptcy of your pseudoargument, imagine an America without firearms, and compare that to an America without automobiles and trucks. No cars and trucks… no economy, instantly. No guns, no problem.
Cars and trucks are instrumental to our well-being, guns are not.
We should do all the reasonably possible to make cars and trucks safer, and we’ve made great progress. Automotive fatalities have fallen dramatically even as the number of miles driven has increased. Do you support all the regulations imposed on industry and highway builders making travel safer? Seatbelts, air bags, better gas tanks, stronger cages, better and safer highway design, child safety seats etc. Is it unreasonable gov’t intrusion to test and require adequate safety seating for infants and toddlers?
Yet, the NRA and their elected minions fight any and all efforts to make guns safer. And they succeed! Why the double standard?
If you shoot through your front door and kill a kid, you must accept the responsibility of your actions.
John,
Perhaps you don’t understand that a lack of knowledge about everything hampers your ability to think properly. Lets dissect your hunting comments. First, in my area there is an emphasis on culling out does, thus reducing the size of the deer population and leading to more healthy animals. Then we do tell hunters to take trophy bucks. Most of the time that culls out older deer that are not good for the population. So, your assumptions and logic are incorrect.