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What the Man Who Brought His Assault Rifle to Obama Townhall Heard the Day Before

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:20 PM

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http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/gospel-hate-arizona-pastor-ste
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Most disturbing of all, you can hear him, in his Aug. 16 sermon titled "I Hate Barack Obama," not only openly avow his complete and utter hatred of the president, but openly wish for his death -- because of his support for abortion rights and the "lewdness" he supposedly has brought to American society.

His key motif, inspired by one of King David's imprecatory prayers against his enemies, is to compare Obama to a slug or snail and wishing he could pour salt on him:


Quote:

Yeah, God appointed him to destroy this country for the wickedness of the United States of America. God appointed him because that's what our country has turned into. That's who we deserve as a president.

But let me tell you something: I don't love Barack Obama. I don't respect Barack Obama. I don't obey Barack Obama. And I'd like Barack Obama to melt like a snail tonight. Because he needs to recompense, he needs to reap what he's sown.

You see, any Christian will tell you that someone who commits murder should get the death penalty. Because that's what it says in Genesis Chapter 9, that's what it says in the Mosaic Law, that's what it teaches us throughout the Bible. 'Who so sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.' 'From the image of God created he Man.'

And when Barack Obama is gonna push his partial birth abortion, his salty saline solution abortion, hey, he deserves to be punished for what he's done. I'm not going to pray for God to bless Barack Obama. This is my prayer tonight to Barack Obama.

...Now, look, if somebody wants me, it somebody twisted my arm and tells me to pray for Barack Obama, this is what I'm going to pray, because this is the only prayer that applies to him: 'Break his teeth, O God, in his mouth. You know, as a snail which melteth, let him pass away. Like the untimely birth of a woman, that he thinks -- he calls it a woman's right to choose, you know, he thinks it's so wonderful. He ought to be aborted. It ought to be, 'Abort Obama.'


He goes on to equate Obama with Hitler, Stalin, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Then he explains:

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You say why are you preaching this, you know what? Because it makes me mad. I'm mad. I don't know about you, but I'm fed up tonight. I'm angry tonight. Because I'm angered by a bunch of preachers who want to sit back, and let America go to hell, let our freedoms go to hell, let the souls of Americans go to hell, and we all just sit back and just, we're comfortable, we're lazy, we're lukewarm, we're neither cold nor hot, and we want to come to church and have our ears tickled. Hey! This isn't to tickle your ears, it's to give you a swift kick in the pants tonight! 'Cuz that's what you need every once in awhile!

... But I'm here to tell you tonight, that God is a God of wrath and vengeance. And that's the message that oughta be thundering from every pulpit in America today. People oughta be trembling today. People in America oughta be scared to death and trembling! And saying, 'Oh God! What are you gonna do to our country?! Oh, God! Are we gonna be able to survive?! Oh, God! Are you gonna allow us to go into the depths of socialism, and communism with Barack Obama!?'


Anderson goes on to mangle Obama's personal history, buying whole into the "birther" mythology that Obama was actually born in Kenya (using a bevy of racist stereotypes along the way), and then says that people like Obama are "so wicked" that they become "animals" who are "not human" and "past feeling."

That leads to this:


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Let me tell you something: Barack Obama has wrought lewdness in America. America has become lewd. What does lewd mean? L-E-W-D? [Pause] Obscene. Right? Dirty. Filthy. Homosexuality. Promiscuity. All of the -- everything that's on the billboard, the TV. Sensuality. Lewdness! We don't even know what lewdness means anymore! We're just surrounded by it, inundated with it!

... And yet you're going to tell me that I'm supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things -- you're gonna tell me I'm supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he's in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nope. I'm not gonna pray for his good. I'm going to pray that he dies and goes to hell. When I go to bed tonight, that's what I'm going to pray. And you say, 'Are you just saying that?' No. When I go to bed tonight, Steven L. Anderson is going to pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell.


And the next day, one of his parishioners, one who says his church is "the best in the world," brings his assault rifle to Obama's townhall.


Y'all still think it's about the 2A???

HKCavalier

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:32 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Y'all still think it's about the 2A???


You see a black man with a gun and immediately assume he's up to no good. That's kinda wrong.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08182009/news/nationalnews/protester_busts
_out_the_big_gun_for_obam_185147.htm


In fact is was not about the 2nd Amendement. It was about Arizona law that allows them to carry weapons. 2nd Amendment was not even a consideration.

H

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:35 AM

PIRATENEWS

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"If we allow one American to exercise his Constitutional rights, then all Americans might want to exercise their Constitutional rights...."


Note that The Young Turks refers to genocide in Armenia by "Young Turks" (Khazar JEWS)...
www.armenian-genocide.org/young_turks.html
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Good Turk Sibel Edmunds video depostion about 9/11 Truth and Armenian Genocide:
www.infowars.com/sibel-edmonds-deposition-video-and-transcript-release
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All gun owners should open carry at all times in all places, and file lawsuits to overturn illegal gun bans on govt property citing DC v Heller.

Yesterday on TV news in Knoxville TV, a "news" report (advertising placement or damage control?) discussed a protest against "genocide" by abortion doctors, by flying airplane banners and large trucks driving around with very large photos of aborted fetuses.

This is the same preacher beaten and tazed by US Border Patrol 100s of miles from the border.



I'd like to ride my motorcycle with an "assault" rifle strapped to my back. I'm going with the Mad Max Roadwarrior theme.



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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:06 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


I would much rather have this douch spewing his idiocy out in the open, then behind closed doors.

Seriously, Im ALL for the 1st amendment. That way you know who to avoid.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:11 AM

BYTEMITE


Yeaaaaaah, okay. I still say you can't say EVERYONE protesting health care reform is like this, or even everyone bringing guns to the debate are, but I'll definitely grant you that this pastor, and the man who listened to him, that wasn't about the 2nd Amendment.

I'd also like to note that it isn't very Christianly to pray for someone to die and go to hell, and that anyone who combines religion with politics (or vice versa) is an asswipe. I thought some things were supposed to be sacred.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:15 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Y'all still think it's about the 2A???



HK, I think you are reading it all wrong. He was actually *celebrating* his new freedom... in a life threatening manner.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:15 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Not that I agree with the following statement...
"Be of the world, but not in it."

It seems to me that this is saying that religious folks should stay out of all politics...

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:18 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


"HK, I think you are reading it all wrong. He was actually *celebrating* his new freedom... in a life threatening manner."

Carrying a loaded firearm out in the open is "life threatening"? How so?


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:26 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
"HK, I think you are reading it all wrong. He was actually *celebrating* his new freedom... in a life threatening manner."

Carrying a loaded firearm out in the open is "life threatening"? How so?




Trip, bang, dead. Whoopsie!

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:32 AM

BYTEMITE


As I think more about it, I admit there is a place for a religious leader in trying to offer moral advice to his congregation. That is one of their functions.

But I believe this is an example of that function being corrupted. In times of anger, fear, and anger, a priest should be offering a voice of calm. They may still call their flock to action, and by no means do they need to be a doormat, so long as they advocate determined resistance. A priest who supports violence... Can they really be considered a priest?

I think that combining politics and religion may inherently be dangerous, because it may lead the priest to endorsing a stance that may be clouded by his OWN anger.

I suppose I'm just more opposed to fire and brimstone and lepers than anything else.

But something I do, honestly hate seeing is people whose beliefs are NOT strong, using religion to shill out themselves or their ideas. You can tell people who are fakes, the people who seem to tack on God to their arguments, who lead into their testimony poorly, like they're just trying to work it in somehow to get a reaction from their audience. That is the worst form of manipulation, and that debases religion.



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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:39 AM

BYTEMITE


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Trip, bang, dead. Whoopsie!



That's more of an accident I think than an intentional threat, though an accident can be life-threatening.

I guess in this case you have to ask yourself where you draw the line. Everything really has some risk, waking up every morning could be deadly.

I can only consider someone a threat if there is intent to wound or kill. Drawing a firearm without intent to use it is not necessarily a threat. Intimidating by saying or showing that you have a gun is different from saying or showing that you have a gun and you plan to shoot.

A thing may only be a hazard, not a threat. A gun is a hazard. Just like a car is potentially a hazard.


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:07 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
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Trip, bang, dead. Whoopsie!



I can only consider someone a threat if there is intent to wound or kill. Drawing a firearm without intent to use it is not necessarily a threat. Intimidating by saying or showing that you have a gun is different from saying or showing that you have a gun and you plan to shoot.

A thing may only be a hazard, not a threat. A gun is a hazard. Just like a car is potentially a hazard.




I wasn't being real serious since it's pretty useless trying to debate with Wulf or other "gun folk."
Guns are designed to kill, and most of them to kill people, not many other uses really. Cars are not designed to kill people. And commence the silly arguments in 3... 2... 1...

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:22 AM

ANTHONYT

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"He was actually *celebrating* his new freedom..."

Hello,

I can only imagine this is lobbed in my direction, and if I'm mistaken, my apologies. But if I'm not mistaken, it simply shows a willful disregard for my statements on the matter, and a re-interpretation of my words that makes for a witty, staw-stuffed one-liner.

In any event, I do have a singular concern.

If one of these gentlemen accidentally or on purpose fires off a round from one of their fine firearms, I am fairly sure the entire nation will rally to clamp down on my freedoms.

Of course, fear over losing my freedoms is not sufficient for me to pre-emptively surrender them, or take them from others.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:35 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


3...2...1...


Guns were originally designed to hunt....

Then someone realized... hey, if I can kill that charging bear, then I can ALSO kill that charging knight....

Btw Piz, ever been to a firing range? Or the NRA... safest place in the world....

3....2....1...

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:35 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I disagree about a lot of this. I think a bunch of people (because the numbers WILL grow, crowds are followers) all carrying guns is just plain stupid. It makes for more and more possibility of mayhem. An angry crowd can do a lot of damage WITHOUT guns; imagine one WITH!

Something else that's not been noted. For each person carrying a gun at a Presidential event, it takes several Secret Service to watch the guy and make sure he doesn't intend harm. How many Secret Service personnel does that require? How many will be otherwise engaged than watching the President? What DOES (because it's already happening) it cost us, the public, to keep all those guys active? There will be overtime, it will require hiring more Secret Service eventually, and on and on.

It's a threat, pure and simple, especially given so far the only people they've made note of are those with extreme viewpoints, ties to militias and churches advocating stuff like this.

You have only to look at the cases of drunks pulled over by police who fight back to know that it puts the police in just that more danger to have potential ARMED drunks running around. And there will be. Just as there are people driving around whose licenses have been suspended, in an open-carry place, you will have people running around with guns displayed openly who've had problems before and cannot legally carry a gun. It's inevitable.

What's totally inevitable is bad things happening, aside from Presidential events. Humans and guns inevitably lead to problems. It will only be a matter of time.

The last thing I want to see is a lot of people wandering around carrying guns. I have nothing against guns; I have a LOT against humans carrying them around openly.

I also abhor religious leaders such as this. I don't like organized religion, period, because of the power it gives a few to supposedly "interpret" the religion to their followers, who accept what they say as the "word of God". I'm buddhist myself, which is a philosophy more than a religion, and means we have no "god" and no "preachers". Religion throughout history has been misused to gain power, money, fame, etc., and too often reflects the prejudices of the authority figure, not the religion. You have only to look at Islam to see perfect examples.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:07 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
"He was actually *celebrating* his new freedom..."

Hello,

I can only imagine this is lobbed in my direction, and if I'm mistaken, my apologies. But if I'm not mistaken, it simply shows a willful disregard for my statements on the matter, and a re-interpretation of my words that makes for a witty, staw-stuffed one-liner.

In any event, I do have a singular concern.

If one of these gentlemen accidentally or on purpose fires off a round from one of their fine firearms, I am fairly sure the entire nation will rally to clamp down on my freedoms.

Of course, fear over losing my freedoms is not sufficient for me to pre-emptively surrender them, or take them from others.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner



On the nosie. I don't disregard your statements, I disagree with them, and I keep poking with a stick because I am honestly confounded by their imho lack of logic and perspective - and especially since I have considered the majority of your posts to be very insightful and levelheaded. That just seems to go a bit wonky when guns are introduced, as in "hater with a gun at Obama rally = new freedom."

I do understand your singular concern - if one of these folks, "on purpose fires off a round from one of their fine firearms, I am fairly sure the entire nation will rally to clamp down on my freedoms."

- I think it a bit broad for you to equate losing your gun with losing "freedoms." Maybe just syntax, but it sounds fake lofty.
- I find it telling that the first concern to the above scenario is how it will affect your gun ownership and not if anyone (say the president) had been shot and killed and how do we prevent that in the future.

I don't want to take your freedom to own guns. I would have cheered if pro gun folk went over to this knuckle dragger and "persuaded" him to remove his gun (at a health care rally) and show some respect and common sense. Can you imagine the PR points you would have scored?

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:18 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I think trying to argue that guns are not designed to kill is foolish. There are a few guns that are not designed to kill (target pistols, mostly) but the general technology of firearms is such that killing or maiming is very much the point. (Four-legged or two-legged animals, your choice.)

It is of course completely unimportant what something is designed to do. We all know that, barring nuclear armaments, you can do as much or more damage with devices NOT designed to kill. Vehicles are among these devices. A simple pocket lighter, $5 bicycle chain, and inexpensive lock will do as well.

It is equally true that the vast majority of guns in this country, designed to kill as they may be, will never be used for their designed purpose. The overwhelming majority of guns will never even be pointed at a living creature.

I continue to maintain that the real problem people have with firearms has nothing to do with the firearms themselves. It has to do with abject terror regarding their fellow human beings. This terror is ignorant of the manifold dangers that surround us, but rest assured that each time something is proved dangerous, these same people will step in to add safeguards, mandate new safety procedures, and limit who can purchase or operate the offending technology.

So one should not feel singled out, if one is a gun owner. In England, people can not carry knives with them. This is because knives can and have been used as weapons. In fact, you can not carry any object that could be construed as a weapon. If a lady stabs an assailant with her knitting needles, she is subject to potential penalty under the law. The need for safety, based on the inherent horrific dangers of human beings, knows no bounds.

There are consequently only two logical conclusions.

1) Constrain all human beings under such weighty blankets of laws, regulations, tests, and other safeguards and proofs of mental and physical competence that incidents of violence or accidental death are minimized. Tighten those laws, regulations, tests, safeguards, and proofs whenever a hole is found in the system. You must necessarily assign people to watch over these laws, regulations, tests, safeguards, and proofs who are, by law, partially exempt from them. A special class of citizen with special powers who can be trusted to protect us all. After extensive testing and training, of course.

2) Loosen such laws, regulations, tests, and other safeguards, and proofs. Certainly there will be dangerous humans amongst us, and certainly people will die. But there will generally be more safe humans than dangerous ones, and they will generally balance the equation. There will also need to be people who watch over even the loose laws, regulations, etc. However, their powers, rights, and responsibilities will be very similar to everyone else's.

Some may argue a third option, which is a healthy balance between 1 and 2. Perhaps option 1.5.

However, even option 1 tends to gravitate inexorably towards 2. Somewhere, sometime, someone bad does something bad with one thing or another, or someone good has a bad accident, and then the frighteners start up.

"You can't trust people to be responsible," they cry out, "there oughta be a law."

And then they rush to sell all our rights. Not out of fear of guns, my friends. Rather out of fear of you. And me. And all of us.

Herbert was onto something, in that weird little sci-fi opus of his.

Fear is the Mind-Killer.

--Anthony




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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:24 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

"I would have cheered if pro gun folk went over to this knuckle dragger and "persuaded" him to remove his gun (at a health care rally) and show some respect and common sense. Can you imagine the PR points you would have scored?"

The most I can do is tell you that the man is an idiot who is undermining his own point.

But 'persuading' (intimidating, forcing, using coercion) him to surrender his legal rights might win PR points with you, but it loses Just Action points with me. I mean honestly, Obama is smart enough not to 'persuade' this guy. Shall I be the idgit, then?

--Anthony


"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:24 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Btw Piz, ever been to a firing range? Or the NRA... safest place in the world....



Yep, fired guns, 22s, a 44 magnum (I was a Dirty Harry fan in high school) and a 10 gauge shotgun my dad owned.
Silly Wulf - People don't go to a target range to kill people - they go there to hone their skills so they can kill better.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:24 AM

WULFENSTAR

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So very true...

They don't fear the guns (or the knives) they fear the people operating them.

It comes down, I guess, to how you see humanity. Do you believe that people should be free, and that the light will balance the dark? That evil will always be challenged by good?

Or, are we ALL just dangerous animals, never to be trusted, never to be believed, and never to be any better?

I choose the former. But thats just me.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:37 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

"I would have cheered if pro gun folk went over to this knuckle dragger and "persuaded" him to remove his gun (at a health care rally) and show some respect and common sense. Can you imagine the PR points you would have scored?"

The most I can do is tell you that the man is an idiot who is undermining his own point.

But 'persuading' (intimidating, forcing, using coercion) him to surrender his legal rights might win PR points with you, but it loses Just Action points with me. I mean honestly, Obama is smart enough not to 'persuade' this guy. Shall I be the idgit, then?

--Anthony



Talking some sense into him, ala "you are being an idiot and you are undermining your own and OUR point" is better, definitely. I would gladly spend some of those just action points if it meant the NRA shuffled this guy out - that would have been huge.
I think where you and I disagree is you see Freedoms as absolutes, black and white, and I see them being grayer, more open for interpretation.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:42 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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I can only consider someone a threat if there is intent to wound or kill.



I take it then that you don't consider drunk drivers a threat? After all, if I drive home absolutely blitzed, it's not my INTENT to wound or kill - that's just an unintended byproduct, and as you say, accidents happen...

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:44 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Or, are we ALL just dangerous animals, never to be trusted, never to be believed, and never to be any better?




I don't know - are we? Isn't that pretty much word for word how you described inner-city youth, as vile scum who can't be helped or educated?

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:45 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


"I think where you and I disagree is you see Freedoms as absolutes, black and white, and I see them being grayer, more open for interpretation."

That, right there, explains the HUGE divide between the right and the left. And to those for and against the right to bear arms. And the criminal justice system. And, hell, just about everything else.

(I'm the absolutes type, but I have to admit you just opened my eyes to why the points of freedom never get across to those of the more "liberal" standing.)

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:54 AM

BYTEMITE


A drunk driving incident is an accident as well, though I really see it more as a case for criminal neglect of the brain.

I never said there shouldn't be repercussions against accidents, only that trying to write laws to protect against any possible danger isn't worth it.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:13 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:

Guns were originally designed to hunt....




And silly putty was designed as an explosive.

Things change.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:21 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:

Trip, bang, dead. Whoopsie!

Umm, you DO realize modern internal safeties make that all but impossible, right ?

You can toss most handguns off a ten story building and they STILL won't go bang when they land - most especially anything with a transfer bar safety unit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_(firearms) <- Add manually

Anthony
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I continue to maintain that the real problem people have with firearms has nothing to do with the firearms themselves. It has to do with abject terror regarding their fellow human beings. This terror is ignorant of the manifold dangers that surround us, but rest assured that each time something is proved dangerous, these same people will step in to add safeguards, mandate new safety procedures, and limit who can purchase or operate the offending technology.

Exactly it, or WOULD be, if folks had any sense.

A pistol sitting on a table scares people - WHY?!
That's freakin STUPID, it's an OBJECT, inanimate matter with no will of it's own, a TOOL and no more.

And yet people focus their fears on the weapon, instead of the doofus holding it, who if he *really wanted to harm you*, wouldn't need the damn thing to accomplish it, would he now ?

Especially if YOU had no means but to stand him off other than politely requesting he hold his water while you call 911 and wait for the cops to maybe arrive, IF they don't just give you a report number for the record and hang up, pffth.

Me, I prefer a stronger argument at hand in such an eventuality, and having one, simply do not find threat in other people whatever, but I also don't feel fear in the conventional sense either, so your mileage may vary.

I ain't too concerned about a kitchen fire, or flat tire neither, and WHY ?
Cause I got something on hand to deal with it, and to me, a weapon is no more, and no less, a tool for an unlikely situation which over the course of a lifetime is likely enough to prepare for, cause should it occur, you'll very much WANT something to mitigate it.

Ponder this, especially those of you young enough to remember well when you were below the "magic number" and could NOT be legally armed...

If you found yourself out in the boonies fifteen miles from nowhere with a flat, dead cellphone battery and a broken jack - you'd make damn, DAMN sure that NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN, right ?

How many of you suffered a potentially fatal stompdown, or at least the very credible threat of one, while you were still below that "magic number" ?
Do you wanna live in that fear FOREVER ?
No, of course not, but look at your answers...

Disarm everyone ELSE for YOUR safety - what a selfish, malicious thought that is, when you strip the bullshit off.

Or allow folk the means to defend themselves ?
The evils of the world are going to do what they are going to do, your words on paper are no armor against their blows, your gun-free zone will not bend the laws of reality to protect you, all that they will do is force the unwilling compliance of the law abiding people that would never be a threat to you anyway, and provide a handy resource pool of unarmed and defenseless victims for predators - nature doesn't give a fuck what you THINK, what you BELIEVE....

You wanna test that, go find a couple of herds of prey animals in the wild, pick one and remove it's natural defenses - then write an order forbidding it's predators from preying on that herd, stick it to a tree, maybe hire a goon or two with a rifle to try enforcing it...

End result would be about as obvious as it is stupid.

WHEN your piece of paper can stop a creepers shiv, WHEN your gun-free zone can magically repel anyone carrying, THEN you can discuss this with me without being viciously insulted in much the same fashion I would insult someone who persists in telling me the earth is flat.

Till then, pound sand.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:22 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


"I think where you and I disagree is you see Freedoms as absolutes, black and white, and I see them being grayer, more open for interpretation."

Hello,

I think you're right. Oh, I'm not quite as Libertarian as some of my Libertarian bretheren, mind you. I actually do believe in some laws that others might find distasteful. And, in a world where there wasn't opposition to the right to bear arms, I'd actually be willing to set up some common sense regulation for safety's sake. I've found, though, that every inch becomes a mile, and I wish it wasn't so. I'd much prefer to be reasonable than absolutist.

And I want you to know something. I respect people like you. I know you're not trying to hurt me. I know you simply think about the world in different ways than I do. If I loudly proclaim my disagreement, it isn't out of some wild-eyed hatred for you or even your position. It's just to make sure I'm heard and understood.

At the end of the day, I think we both want a better world. We just disagree on the route.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:30 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Seems to me there's something in the laws and tax codes regarding churches losing their tax-exempt status when they start electioneering and politicking.

Maybe it's time these socialists and societal leeches start ponying up and paying their fair share, eh?

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:34 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally preached by some worthless douchebag:

"You see, any Christian will tell you that someone who commits murder should get the death penalty. Because that's what it says in Genesis Chapter 9, that's what it says in the Mosaic Law, that's what it teaches us throughout the Bible. 'Who so sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.' 'From the image of God created he Man.'

And when Barack Obama is gonna push his partial birth abortion, his salty saline solution abortion, hey, he deserves to be punished for what he's done. I'm not going to pray for God to bless Barack Obama. This is my prayer tonight to Barack Obama."



Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be a perpetual-motion death machine? I mean, if you commit murder, you're to be put to death. What about the executioner? Who puts him to death?

Also, why is Dubya still breathing, if any of this is true? And why are the "pro-life" anti-choice crowd who urge people to murder doctors still alive? Why haven't they been put to death?

For that matter, why hasn't your "god" been put to death for murdering so many?


Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:44 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


"God appointed him to destroy this country for the wickedness of the United States of America. God appointed him because that's what our country has turned into. That's who we deserve as a president."

Hello,

This was the singular most remarkable part of the speech/sermon, in my opinion.

The preacher has declared the Obama presidency to be the Will of God.

And all ye who oppose God's will shall surely be cast into the fire and darkness, yea. ;-)

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:46 AM

PIRATENEWS

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I was gonna join this PR thread, except Com[]cast cut off my broadband when I typed the words Khaz[]ar and Arm[en]ian geno[c]ide. Note that all dictionaries defenee sem[]ite as ARAB not j[]ew.

During the Revolutionary War, all preachers required all men to bring their assault rifles to church. That was The Law.

Today most preachers are employed by the anti-semitic je[]wish babylonian kha[]zar ashke[n]azi private foreign "Federal" Reserve Bank scam, via 501c3 contract with its private IRS collection agency. This contract requires preachers to their sermons and censor the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc, in order to keep their license to launder money as tax-exempt donations.

Over 40,000 preachers are now employed by salary from US Dept of Homeland Security, formerly run by khaz][ar j[]ew Michael "Son of the Devil" Chertoff. These preachers are required to lie to their sheeple that vaccines, gun-bans and martial law are good for you.

Most preachers are also Satanic Freemasons, which is a je[]wish weapon to infiltrate civilized nations and Christian churches (and all other religions) for the je[]wish banksters, after the Knights Templar banksters got burned at the stake. Christianity, Islam and Jud[]aism ban loansharking, so je[]ws banned the Torah and adopted the Baby[]lonian Talm[]ud, and were the only people allowed to be banksters in Europe.

Now those same banksters have stolen $25-trillion from the US Govt via the Pedophile Protection Bankster Bailout Act, and are overthrowing USA with gay Communist illegal alien drug-dealing terrorist Hussein Barry Sotoro who is NOT president of anything.

THIS

IS

WAR

Quote:

"Sh1t's gettin way too complicated for me. There are white folks, and then there are ignorant mutherfuc][kers like you! You can put lipstick on a pig. Sorry as$ mutherfuc[]ker's got nuttin on me. I inhaled frequently - that was the point. Pot helped, and booze. A little blow when you could afford it. Junkie, pothead. That's where I'd been headed. You ain't my bitch nig[]ger, git your own dam[n fries!"
-Barry Hussein Obama Soetoro, Dreams From My Father
www.archive.org/details/ObamaInauguralMashup/


PS: I do support concentration camps for all Obama voters, and all Bush voters, and all Clinton voters. Under US Code, the punishment for treason is death.

I think I'll go stand in my backyard and shoot my assault rifle now.


www.globemagazine.com/story/379

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:50 AM

WULFENSTAR

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Jesus, dude... calm down.

Part of the war is image.... you go off half-cocked, youll end up giving us all a bad image.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:53 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I do get nervous when I imagine people like Piratenews showing up to presidential speeches and debates with firearms. But I wouldn't take his gun from him. There's no law against crazy, or saying stuff that is bat-guano nuts. As long as you're not a verifiable danger to yourself or others, you get to keep your rights. So I wouldn't even disarm Pirate, here. If that ain't a commitment to freedom, I don't know what is.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:55 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
"I think where you and I disagree is you see Freedoms as absolutes, black and white, and I see them being grayer, more open for interpretation."

That, right there, explains the HUGE divide between the right and the left. And to those for and against the right to bear arms. And the criminal justice system. And, hell, just about everything else.

(I'm the absolutes type, but I have to admit you just opened my eyes to why the points of freedom never get across to those of the more "liberal" standing.)



Most of the people who claim to balieve in "absolutes" absolutely don't believe in them, Wulfie. They're very much in the "pro-murder" category (as witnessed by their overwhelming supoport for the Iraq war), yet they abhor abortion as "murder", and say they value all life. Except they don't value life - they value SAYING they value life. They pay lip service to their "beliefs" on a daily basis around here. They love democracy, but they want to shoot the President because they didn't vote for him, or they want him deposed because he's "not American" enough for them, because he had different beliefs than they do on some things.

You value "freedom"? How about the freedom to decide whether or not to have children? How about the freedom to decide whether or not to have a national healthcare policy? No, Wulfie, you only value the freedoms that YOU value, and you absolutely (there's that pesky word again...) despise the idea of other people exercising THEIR freedoms to do things you don't like.

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:59 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Jesus, dude... calm down.

Part of the war is image.... you go off half-cocked, youll end up giving us all a bad image.




BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!


Okay, that was just TOO funny!

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:00 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Many preachers made public prayors and sermons seeking the sudden death of George W Bush. Especially conservative Republican preachers, also citing Bushes' support for aborticide of $50-million murdered US citizens.



US Ambassador Alan Keyes got 999,801 views for calling Obama an "Obamination", Communist, genocidal maniac and illegal alien...

CIA agent Barry Sotoro also genocided 1,000 black people and burned down 900 Christian churches in his home nation of British Kenya, for his Communist terrorist cousin Odingo, using $1-million of his presidential campaign bribes.




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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:00 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

But I wouldn't take his gun from him. There's no law against crazy...


But oddly enough, there ARE laws against crazies owning guns...

Mike


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:13 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


"But oddly enough, there ARE laws against crazies owning guns...

Mike"

Hello Mike,

There aren't yet in most places that allow firearms at all, thank God.

You need to demonstrate that you are a danger to yourself or others to lose your rights, so far. Just being crazy ain't enough. You also have to be dangerous.

Unfortunately, the gun control crowd is plugging away at this. They want any mental illness put into a nationwide database that has to be checked before gun ownership. Not just the dangerous people. Anyone with any mental problem. I'm sure they'll get it sorted eventually. Then you can disarm anyone by declaring them to have any one of a thousand minor mental illnesses.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:24 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Quote:

Trip, bang, dead. Whoopsie!

Umm, you DO realize modern internal safeties make that all but impossible, right ?

You can toss most handguns off a ten story building and they STILL won't go bang when they land - most especially anything with a transfer bar safety unit.



Yeah totally get that. Ask Plaxico Burris if he gets it.

Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
A pistol sitting on a table scares people - WHY?!
That's freakin STUPID, it's an OBJECT, inanimate matter with no will of it's own, a TOOL and no more.

And yet people focus their fears on the weapon, instead of the doofus holding it, who if he *really wanted to harm you*, wouldn't need the damn thing to accomplish it, would he now ?



I am completely focused on the doofus with a gun. A doofus without a gun is just a doofus, and a gun is just as you say, a tool - I'm right there with you. A doofus at an Obama rally with a gun... ?

Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Especially if YOU had no means but to stand him off other than politely requesting he hold his water while you call 911 and wait for the cops to maybe arrive, IF they don't just give you a report number for the record and hang up, pffth.

Me, I prefer a stronger argument at hand in such an eventuality, and having one, simply do not find threat in other people whatever, but I also don't feel fear in the conventional sense either, so your mileage may vary.

I ain't too concerned about a kitchen fire, or flat tire neither, and WHY ?
Cause I got something on hand to deal with it, and to me, a weapon is no more, and no less, a tool for an unlikely situation which over the course of a lifetime is likely enough to prepare for, cause should it occur, you'll very much WANT something to mitigate it.



Our mileage does indeed vary - I have had a very different background that what I gather you have had - I live in place where I'm not so afraid for my safety that I feel the need to buy a gun, a dog is plenty. I wish you didn't feel the need too as well, but that's a fantasy, some places are just more dangerous than others. It's too bad all we can do in those places is arm ourselves and listen at the door.

Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Disarm everyone ELSE for YOUR safety - what a selfish, malicious thought that is, when you strip the bullshit off.

Or allow folk the means to defend themselves ?
The evils of the world are going to do what they are going to do, your words on paper are no armor against their blows, your gun-free zone will not bend the laws of reality to protect you, all that they will do is force the unwilling compliance of the law abiding people that would never be a threat to you anyway, and provide a handy resource pool of unarmed and defenseless victims for predators - nature doesn't give a fuck what you THINK, what you BELIEVE....

You wanna test that, go find a couple of herds of prey animals in the wild, pick one and remove it's natural defenses - then write an order forbidding it's predators from preying on that herd, stick it to a tree, maybe hire a goon or two with a rifle to try enforcing it...

End result would be about as obvious as it is stupid.

WHEN your piece of paper can stop a creepers shiv, WHEN your gun-free zone can magically repel anyone carrying, THEN you can discuss this with me without being viciously insulted in much the same fashion I would insult someone who persists in telling me the earth is flat.

Till then, pound sand.

-Frem




More rational debate from gun folk... "pound sand" super. This is usually where these discussions end.
Fwiw I absolutely agree with you elsewhere, "gun free" zones are a joke, something bureaucrats came up with to make it look like they're doing something about gun violence.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:30 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Rights come from God, not a gubmint employee.

Open Carry laws by state
http://opencarry.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_carry

What is it about some guys that makes them pee their pants when they see a gun or a pretty girl?


www.girlsandguns.com


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:41 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

Do you really think you can dismiss Frem's post as being illogical or unreasonable because he said 'pound sand?' Or that 'pound sand' is somehow indicative of gun advocate arguments general failure? It's an expression of frustration. It amounts to saying, "No." By God, man, you really do go at these things with tweezers and pull out the tiny bits you think you can criticize while disregarding the well reasoned whole.

The creation of Doofus Free Zones is of greater potential danger to freedom than Gun Free Zones. Plus a great many of the enforcers of such a zone wouldn't be allowed inside. Including quite a few Commanders In Chief. I doubt you are advocating a Doofus Free Zone. Are you?

If not, then you've expressed not an iota of actual difference of opinion with Frem's argument, other than, you know, you don't like 'pound sand.'

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:42 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

It is of course completely unimportant what something is designed to do. We all know that, barring nuclear armaments, you can do as much or more damage with devices NOT designed to kill. Vehicles are among these devices. A simple pocket lighter, $5 bicycle chain, and inexpensive lock will do as well.



Sorry I missed this originally - This is what I'm talking about, this kind of absolution of The Gun.
Sure, I can kill with a coat hanger, but it's a lot easier if I use a tool designed for the job. If killing someone is my desire, what am I going to choose most often?

It feels designed to deflect responsibility - if gun owners "owned it," instead of making these arguments, it might be the beginning of a real debate.

But I get it - not going to happen - you don't trust the other side, too risky.


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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:43 AM

BYTEMITE


Wow, nice bikini.

I'm actually not that into guns, or girls, but she's pretty.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:56 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Anthony
I am still waitin for em to consider "not taking other peoples shit" as a mental disorder.

Oh, wait, they did, didn't they ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder
And since I have a few minutes and a major axe to grind, hell, imma grind it.

Might wanna duck now.
Seriously.


*Channels Childhood*
Quote:

1. often loses temper
Gee, couldn't have anything to do with just how RIDICULOUS the adult world is from a childs point of view - why am I supposed to hate that person for the shade of their skin, why is our god better than theirs, why does everyone treat me like a housepet ?
2. often argues with adults
Oh yeah, cause adults are NEVER wrong, or immoral, or blame kids for stuff THEY do since they have force majeure, cause kids aren't PEOPLE, you know, they're not ALLOWED to have an opinion..
3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
Maybe they don't WANT to shun the darker/lighter person, maybe they think the pledge of allegiance is bullshit, maybe they don't WANT to meekly submit to being physically pounded on for some minor infraction cause their parent had a bad day and plans to take it out on them.
4. often deliberately annoys people
Oh yes, cause how dare they actually HAVE FUN, what a crime it is to MAKE NOISE, or even worse, a mess, oh noes, they're not a good little obedient, silent robot drone, what a tragedy.
5. often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
Oh yeah, sure, and "all children are lying manipulators" too, yep, evil right out of the cradle and those adults are never, ever wrong or immoral, besides, it's not like they get a say anyway, they're not HUMAN, not PEOPLE, just kids, right ?
6. is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
Well of course, can't have them thinking they have RIGHTS, that they might be entitled to personal space, or privacy, or simple common decency, they should know their place, right ?
7. is often angry and resentful
Yeah cause having the shit beaten out of you should make you happy, it's emotionally healthy don't you know, and being regarded as little more than a housepet isn't gonna upset anyone is it now ?
8. is often spiteful or vindictive
But oh heavens why ? I mean, what do they have to be upset about, besides, it's not like they're HUMAN is it, not like they have FEELINGS, they're just kids, they'll get over it, pffth!



And yet people wonder where the mass social psychosis that leads to these problems comes from.

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:05 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Open Carry of loaded firearms is normal at govt meetings in Tennessee, and Congress critters dont pee their pants:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum50/29990.html

The creepiest part of open carry is gubmint employees brandishing loaded shotguns and pistols at police stations and court houses. Ever had a loaded gun put to your head for driving 65 mph on an interstate?

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:08 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

Of course people will choose the best available tool for a job. If that job is killing people, they will identify all available tools, and choose the best one. That tool will frequently be a gun. Not always. But frequently.

If I want to kill you clandestinely, I might not choose a gun. Silencers aren't always readily available, and they tend to be bulky. Some serial killers use guns, but a lot don't, and I think part of the reason for that is the noise of an un-silenced pistol and the bulkiness of a silenced one.

The point we are trying to make, and that you seem to be failing to own up to, is that when people can't get what they want, they frequently improvise. A 180 pound man can afford to improvise a brick to the head of a 100 pound woman. Or a lead pipe. Or a knife. Or, really, he could just use his bare hands and still be at a probable advantage. The person who truly and earnestly needs a weapon is the 100 pound woman. A gun is a good equalizer.

I mean, honestly, have you ever refused to eat something because you had a dull knife instead of a sharp one? Did you ever starve to death because of a lack of proper eating utensils?

Have you ever used a pair of pliers in lieu of a wrench? Did you ever make a funnel out of a piece of paper? Did you ever use anything as a hammer that wasn't a hammer? Pick up a towel and use it like an oven-mitt? Have you ever improvised an imperfect but suitable solution to a problem? Humans aren't just tool users. They are also tool makers and improvisers. You can't disarm foul intent. You can make someone work harder to achieve evil, but you can't do away with the evil itself.

Unfortunately, making the evildoer work harder also makes the law-abiding work harder. Harder than the evil-doer, since they aren't willing to break the rules.

Who is evading the point, here?

--Anthony


"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:09 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

Do you really think you can dismiss Frem's post as being illogical or unreasonable because he said 'pound sand?' Or that 'pound sand' is somehow indicative of gun advocate arguments general failure? It's an expression of frustration. It amounts to saying, "No." By God, man, you really do go at these things with tweezers and pull out the tiny bits you think you can criticize while disregarding the well reasoned whole.



No, I don't dismiss his post because he said that. You hear "Pound sand" and I hear, "Go f*ck a duck." It seemed out of character for someone of his debate skills.

I included all of Frem's post in mine, and after each section that I had issues with I got to my points of contention. I don't want to bore people with a lot of talk - I hope I can make my point quickly.

I did have more issues - the other side of your coin is I could have listed them all (prey animal analogy) and you may have said I was just being a jerk.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:16 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Open Carry of loaded firearms is normal at govt meetings in Tennessee, and Congress critters dont pee their pants:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum50/29990.html

The creepiest part of open carry is gubmint employees brandishing loaded shotguns and pistols at police stations and court houses. Ever had a loaded gun put to your head for driving 65 mph on an interstate?

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:19 AM

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Ok, Pirate.... totally unfair posting said HOT chick....I can't even think let alone write intelligently...

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