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Yes, Virginia. Journalists really are a bunch of preening twats
Marshal University journalism professor gives an example of why American journalism is in deep trouble.
I wrote a comment at the site the day Mr. Swindell's piece was published. It's still there. Mr. Swindell replied to me this evening and 'clarified' his comments. I responded again. There are over 800 comments now, and I don't know how long he'll continue to 'clarify' and 'explain' himelf. Might take him away from his day job.
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.
Pepto Bismol helps with that. Also activated charcoal.
I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream.
The question really is, do you own a shotgun, a handgun and a hunting rifle? I s'pect you don't, but go on...
But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.
So says the head cretin, Barky, and his minions, one of which is... you, professor.
As has been asked elsewhere, what does the good professor have against the citizens of the Isle of Crete? The minotaur is a legend, truly.
And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
They seem like the truth, because they are the truth.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker's podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers.
A politician that can give a passionate 30 minute intelligent extemporaneous talk with a few notes scribbled on her hand? Hardly a half wit.
Shouldn't there be a comma between half-wit and half-term?
And how does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of "Northern Aggression" as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness? History lesson: It was an awful Civil War
I don't think civil war should be in caps here, as it is being used generically...
won decisively some 150 years ago. Over slavery. The Confederacy wanted to keep African-Americans in chains
Only the ones who were slaves. They were perfectly happy to leave the free Blacks free, and even allowed them to own slaves, too.
and President Lincoln didn't.
The race card, how.. common. Just a hint professor: Look in the mirror. You're white, too. And very few gun owners have that view of the Civil War, but don't let that stop this episode of agenda building. Do go on.
Sure, there were states' rights issues, but nullification, secession, and treason were settled at Appomattox Courthouse. Sure, Reconstruction left a bad taste. But, resurrecting these same things, the way South Carolina is as we speak, is to invite a return to the whole concept of a Union.
End of non sequitur on the right to keep and bear arms.
Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.
Well, not yet anyway...
We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president's agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.
In case you didn't notice, and you didn't, Barky and about 500 of his best friends had their thumbs on the scale in order to gain the 2012 election. He engaged in a deliberate program using his government to not only suppress voter turn out but to kill speech. If you don't think that will anger an electorate to arms, you really are an ignorant twat. Rights were infringed on, and it was no accident. It was deliberate.
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
Good. You go get a rifle, preferably a 5.56mm EBR (Evil Black Rifle) and meet the other 200 milion or so American gun owners. If only three percent (III) of those answer the call to arms against Barky and you, I'd go into hiding if I were you.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, "We'll put a boot in your ---, it's the American way."
Indeed.
Except it won't be a boot. It'll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won't do them any good.
You gotta take a crap sometime.
So how is it going for us in Afghanistan these days, with our advanced weapons and the Taliban's IEDs?
So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks.
You might want to double check that number, professor. I think it's fallen recently.
And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along,
The last couple of mass killers using guns haven't been sane, but don't let that bother you, dear. Domestic terrorists seem to prefer explosives, eg. the Boston Marathon bombers.
we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.
Liberals never talk about common sense gun laws such as repealing them, and making them really make sense. Instead it is to send the power of the state, already overwhelmingly over-large and hostile, against the citizens. That is tyranny, and the professor just self identified as a tyrant.
Posted by: badanov 2013-06-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=369431